Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expect in the "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" something akin to the dawn of a new era in motion pictures. In it Hollywood has made a conscious essay at naturalness and authenticity. "Becky Sharp", they tell us, was nothing more than the first faltering step in Technicolor progress; this version of the Fox romance sees the new photographic technique come of age. These claims are, of course, subject to reservation, for in its very attempt at naturalness the picture is at times so conspicuously natural and self-conscious that one concludes there is still much, to learn in this field...
...asking only for an appropriation of $1,500,000,000 to the Works Progress Administration. . . . This request . . . will, if acted upon favorably by the Congress, give security during the next fiscal year to those in need, on condition, however, that private employers hire many of those now on relief rolls...
...trend of re-employment is upward. But this trend, at its present rate of progress, is inadequate. I propose, therefore, that we ask private business to extend its operations so as to absorb an increasing number of the unemployed...
...which he for a generation had espoused. Said Candidate Borah last week in Youngstown: "It is a question of the performance of the highest duty offered Republican citizens and you may forget me, if you desire, but not certain men, whose faces are toward the dawn, who believe in progress, who believe in liberalism and who want to return their Republican party to power...
...gorged with countless courses, no one of which is digested. The mean, as President Conant declares, should be simplified. We need to reach a point, as he says, where we shall be concerned with "teaching less and less but at the same time providing a better and better education." Progress to this end cannot be instantaneous. It will take at least a generation to win the goal. But we can all be glad that so eminent a scientist as James B. Conant, who understands today's demands for scholarly specialization as well as anyone can, likewise sees the need...