Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Meanwhile the Assembly received a progress report on the work of France's courts trying collaboration cases: to date, they have imposed 7,100 death sentences (4,400 of them in absentia), of which about 800 have actually been carried out; 3,000 sentences to hard labor for life; 39,000 sentences of hard labor, military confinement or simple imprisonment...
...Pessimism and doubt were not hard to find on Jan 1, 1900, but the world, and especially the U.S., sided with Alger. It looked forward to the 20th Century with a degree of confidence unequaled by any previous age and unregained since. Paced fast or slow, progress was sure, limitless, irreversible. Virtue walked with progress; they fed each other...
Between spiritual and material progress the Times saw mutual support. It observed: "The finest flower that grows must strike its roots in material earth . . . The noble products of civilization spring from organized and intelligently directed industry. When men lived in caves and every head of a family had to kill his own bear or go without meat, there were no Doric temples, no Trajan columns, or Dewey arches, and no poets reciting their verses of a Summer evening...
Marksmanship & Green Moire. New York, the youngest of the queen cities, was smug and hopeful; but Florence, the earliest capital of the modern world, was merely relieved that the 19th Century was over. Italy's nationalist rebirth had indeed been glorious. Progress was everywhere; some Florentines thought that there was too much of it. With a sigh and a shrug Florence's Corriere Italiano saw the old century off: "Tomorrow a new year begins a new century we know nothing about. It does not matter. It is a new year. That is enough...