Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calvin Coolidge: Northampton: Massachusetts) : "Of course I appreciate the great importance of the celebration. ... I do not see any method of improving our social and economic relations except through the teachings of religion. In fact it is my belief that we have gone as far as we can in progress and reform until we have a more general acceptance of the truths of religion...
...PROGRESS of youth through the realm of literature is dated by the discovery of the figure which lurk behind each turning in the path. Just as Shelley and the author or "The Way of All Flesh" point the way at certain crossroads, so the smooth-shaven and deeply lined face of Charles Baudelaire at its appointed time looms up like certainty for those who follow the orthodox road to literary sophistication. As the author of this most recent life of Baudelaire notes in his introduction, the "poet maudit" generally appears on the horizon of his American readers during their college...
...small light & power company is a Utility Man, but his name and influence may extend no farther than his city limits. As time passes, however, he may acquire membership on more and more important directorships, may achieve standing as an "interest," may ultimately rank with Insull, Mitchell, Thorne. The progress of both the Congressman and the Utilitarian may be traced by their appearance in the newspapers, though the Congressman gets the front page and the Utility Man the financial section. Last week every metropolitan newspaper mentioned Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman of Niagara-Hudson Corp. Last week every utility-minded newspaper...
...Always noncommittal are resignations and always open to question are inferences from them. Yet withdrawals were no part of Mr. Catchings' work during the brave days of 1929, when the "new era" group of Market men maintained that soaring stock prices represented the legitimate reflection of prosperity and progress...
...hard and distasteful has long been discredited. The subjects which are difficult and abstract should indeed be taught in as interesting a manner as possible; and the boy whose inaptitude for them has been clearly demonstrated should not be forced to continue. But the modicum of truth remains that progress does not regularly take place along the line of least resistance. Unless the secondary graduate has learned that the satisfaction of a problem vigorously and wisely attacked, of a job well done, is an adequate substitute for the thrill of superficial interest, unless he has developed a measure of intellectual...