Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conferees had weightier matters than lumps of sugar to discuss, but the sugar symbolized how little progress toward real unity their five nations had made since signing the Brussels pact last March. In four months Western Union had gone a little way toward military integration, but hardly a step toward economic or political unity...
Children's Classics (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). The Pilgrim's Progress. Discussion leader: Eugene O'Neill...
...Atomic Energy Commission submitted last week a semi-annual report on work-in-progress that did not report very much...
Landhaven has no "forms" or class "years." Students graduate when progress tests convince the masters that they are ready for college. The boys get only six weeks' vacation each summer; the rest of the school year is broken into three terms, on the English model. Students and masters share the school's housekeeping chores...
...courtship, even an opera ("You have to invent [the words] yourselves," he told the household gravely: "only see ... that they sound Italian, and, most important, that nobody understands them"). He loved his school, where he personally taught the children of his farm hands; but most other forms of "progress" horrified him-e.g., the novelty of using kerosene in lamps instead of good old fat, the creation of a Russian parliament ("perfectly absurd"), colleges and careers for women (except where "help is needed in large families"), the cleaning up of years of weeds and garbage from around his mansion...