Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Gedye published a violently worded political commentary on events in Central Europe. Those events were a chapter in a story not then, if yet, finished, and the progress of which it was Mr. Gedye's duty as our Central European correspondent to report impartially day by day. Mr. Gedye honestly took the view that he could publicly show a partisan attitude to those events without impairing his reputation as an impartial recorder of news. We believed that our readers would not think so, and that in fact Mr. Gedye had himself destroyed his value to us as a reporter...
Fall of 1937-"I must frankly admit that progress is not yet as fast as I should like but it soon will be ... production has begun in earnest...
...their Foreign Ministers, had entered II Duce's car and drawn the shades, an aide hurried to Herr Hitler's coach and returned with Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Armed Forces of the Reich. This was a clear indication that a war council was in progress. Before leaving Rome, Mussolini had had a long talk with his military chieftain, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, who had been summoned home from Egypt and another halted invasion...
...boys & girls grew older, now range from 22 to 37, with the average over 30. "Terman's Kids" are famed, among psychologists, the world over: for Terman and his field workers have kept tabs on them, issued progress reports from time to time...
...born in 1798, after the French Revolution, was inspired by Vico. Wrote Michelet: "... I was seized by a frenzy caught from Vico, an incredible intoxication with his great historical principle." This frenzied intoxication, coupled with an idea that Vico did not live long enough to share-the idea of progress-lasted Michelet through a lifetime of historical writing...