Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Under the microscope, blood from a victim of malaria is as vivid as a southern sunset. In mild malaria, the red blood cells appear speckled with pink. In violent forms of the disease, the corpuscles darken to dusky copper, mottled with purple. These changing hues show the progress of the fight between invading malarial parasites and the body's defending blood cells...
...week, to celebrate his program's completion, tan, robust "Tut" Tuttle invited some 500 newsmen, steel technicians and customers to look over his expanded Baltimore plant. They jostled each other in the long, low, light green business offices, ate liberally of a free buffet lunch, marveled at the progress that had been made. A promoter's scheme in 1929, near bankrupt in 1933, Rustless is now one of the Big Three stainless steel makers (other two: Allegheny Ludlum, Republic). Capacity has been upped from 20,000 tons (1934) to 75,000 tons, nearly one-half the entire...
Four years ago today the American people went to the polls faced with a clear-cut choice between reaction and progress. Overwhelmingly they chose the New Deal brand of economic democracy. Today there is no such sharp distinction. On the basis of their past records and future promise, Wendell Willkie and Franklin D. Roosevelt offer a confusing and unsatisfactory choice...
...Rousseau's Social Contract substituted an agreement among anarchic individuals for the Christian brotherhood of man; his optimism created a delusive new god, Progress...
...Modern civilization." explains Maritain, "pays dearly today for the past." Marx, Nietzsche, Freud have "unmasked" the rational, optimistic bourgeois citizen. Social disorders threaten to engulf him, mocking his errant faith in Progress and Enlightenment...