Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...increasingly apparent," he continued, "that little or no progress is being made toward the satisfactory solution of the many problems which we face today. At best, we have moved forward only a small fraction of the distance toward the goal of peace and prosperity for all. At worst, we fear the complete collapse of civilization, before the intelligent application of good will can save mankind from that catastrophe...
...National capitalism was ushered into the United States with politicians' cries of 'driving the moneychangers from the temple,'" Professor Gras said. "It mattered not that financial capitalism had engineered the greatest material progress that the world had ever known in the same length of time...
...those of us who know a little of the progress of militarism at Harvard in 1914, yesterday's editorial evokes a disturbing reminder. The interventionists in those days worked so successfully that in two years they transformed a neutral, peace-loving undergraduate body into a flock of wild militarists. The techniques they used show a sickening similarity to the methods of our contemporaries...
...inevitable eventually. Some sources, bluntly assuming that Hitler will invade The Netherlands before the end of June, further expect that Japan will seize the moment to move in on the Indies. It would therefore not be surprising if the tag end of U. S. Fleet maneuvers now in progress found a squadron near Manila. Well Cordell Hull knows that Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi, visiting him, sees over Mr. Hull's shoulder the U. S. Pacific Fleet. But it is still a secret whether Mr. Hull himself sees the Fleet when he looks around...
...well in early practices, is out with a pulled muscles, but he has the doctor's O.K. to resume workouts within the next few days. Because of a strain. Don Donahue was not able to take a hurdle until Wednesday afternoon, but Mikkola is highly satisfied with his progress...