Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such an authorative blueprint before them alumni could measure the progress Harvard has achieved since maturity forced them to place business before beer. And interested students might examine the mechanism that is preparing them for the varied responsibilities of the future...
...necessity of a firm foundation of religion for the progress of modern civilization was stressed by Roscoe Pound, former dean of the Law School, and first of the new University professors, in an informal address at Christ Church last night...
Recommendation: "That public criticism of the court or jury by lawyers in the case during the progress of the litigation be not tolerated...
...indicted for murder, flattens a leering lounger with a right hook to the jaw. In the best traditions of the temperamental reporter, she several times resigns her job, with equal fidelity to tradition cannot resist grabbing it back when a hot story breaks right under her nose, punctuates her progress by the tintinnabulations of shattering glass doors as she flounces in & out of offices...
Joyce's post-Ulyssean prose style is composed almost entirely of dream-scrambled verbalisms (Anna Livid Plurabelle, Work in Progress) which by some are highly touted as a significant experiment, seem to others merely words in a helter-skelter retreat from significance. Joyce himself used them sparingly in Pomes Penyeach (1927), eschews them entirely in Ecce Puer (1936), his single four-quatrain poem written during the last decade. His later poems, which in general hew to the line of modern Irish minor verse, in their essential scope are no advance over his earlier pseudo-madrigals. All arise from...