Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religious teachings to conform to present-day science by adding to the Bible the humanistic utterances of such men as Lincoln and Carlyle and such documents as the Declaration of Independence. Quite a different point of view is shown in the statement reprinted elsewhere on this page reporting the progress of the Bryan Memorial University, a college in which every member of the faculty must swear to an implicit belief in the divine authorship of the Scriptures...
...Prohibition Commissioner Doran sent a chill through his audience when he declared: "If under the lash of extremists, harsh and restrictive measures are adopted toward scientific and industrial groups [using alcohol], we will witness a terrific blow to scientific and commercial progress. . . . The crippling of our institutions, our medical arts and our commercial organizations . . . is too big a price to pay for this extreme brand of Prohibition...
...believe that you to whom the governments have intrusted the high mission of continuing what was commenced at Washington are . . . animated with a noble inspiration and resolve to remove once and for all this particular obstacle [naval armaments] from the path of order and civilized progress...
...last week a row of red pins on the smoking room map marked the slow progress of the S. S. Kenilworth Castle, chief passenger Edward Windsor, down the Western bulge of Africa. High, traditional horseplay erupted when the red pins reached the Equator...
Subterranean Garden. Squeezing through tunnels that nearly balked both forward and backward progress, pausing a minute for a breath of damp air, peering into obscurity ahead, went Leo McGavic and Cecil Cutliff, guides, inching their way through the nether tortuosities of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. About a mile and a half from where Floyd Collins died (TIME, June 27. 1927), the two guides found a crystal "garden" with an area of 500 square feet, sparkling beneath their flashlights. The crystalline formation is low and level, apparently not formed by mineral-bearing water dripping from above, as is usually the case...