Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means the real indigenous Americans, the Indians, who wielded the tomahawk with a flendish delight, prancing about their scalpless victims about to be roasted at the stake, then we concur in chorus that "the greater their anguish the greater their pleasure"; but that age has passed. If men progress mentally, culturally, and spiritually, then I am convinced we have left far behind the stage when human pleasure increases directly with the increase of the anguish of his fellow...
...engineering science, and of the results of researches and original investigations. It will aim to develop in the students at the Institute and other scientific schools a better knowledge of the actual conditions of industry which they will meet upon graduation, and to interest them in the current progress in the different branches of science...
...Buenos Ayres and Shanghai and Bulgaria were received on New Year's day and read from the platform by John R. Mott, the Chairman of the Conference--cable grams from men in the field, greeting the Conference and reiterating the plea for help. The opening speakers outlined the great progress of the Student Volunteer Movement, and showed by word and picture the immensity and vital importance to Americans of the problems of non-Christian countries...
...gradual expansion and improvement of this "speaking" policy is much to be desired as a part of the University's progress...
...leave for a moment the war ravaged cities and fields of Belgium and to come to this land which has been so fortunate as to escape the destruction which the Germans have wrought every where in Europe. Although the work of reconstruction has started, it must of necessity progress slowly and it will be many years before we in Belgium can live as freely and happily as it is possible for you to do in America...