Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...difficult problem, but as least it seems clear that if England survives, this country is better off. If we abandon England we abandon any remaining chance to enjoy relatively favored, protected isolation: the kind of isolation that does not bring external pressures of a magnitude that will prevent internal progress...
Stanley Salmen, secretary of the Bureau of Supervisors, reported that of 405 enrolled last year, 63 per cent had improved their grades, 24 per cent remained at the same scholastic level when they were falling behind, while only 13 per cent showed no progress...
...Savings Bank Journal's editor, Milton Harrison (TIME, Sept. 30), who has held six similar forums this year. Moderator was a quiet, dark Sullivan & Cromwell partner, Norris Darrell. By 10 p.m., after six hours of good-and ill-natured debate, the embattled forumists had not made much progress towards mutual understanding. The Government-spenders were still unashamed Government-spenders, the let-industry-do-the-job men were still for letting industry do the job. The expression on most faces registered "This is where I came...
...moment for a historical novel to come out. Amid long and difficult labor pains, the "proletarian" novel was being born. If the hero and heroine spoke bad English mixed with a brave obscenity, they were proletarians. Characters who spoke good English were, by Depression critical standards, the enemies of progress...
...rests the bulk of Crimson hopes. He has been credited with inspired performances in the Penn and Brown games, carrying Harvard over the top with him. Actually, it may be that Spreyer was just hitting his real stride in those last two games. Sickness and injuries have retarded his progress all year. In 1939 he "arrived" in the Army game, but this year it took a bit longer. Now he is in good shape and ready for the effort of his career. At least, that is one way to look at Charley Sprayer's Cinderella-man acts in the last...