Word: progressivity
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...would not improve the civil service.- N. A. Rev., Dec., 1887, 4; Lambert, Progress of Civil Service Reform, 7-24.- Civil Service Record...
Best single reference; Gunton's Wealth and Progress...
...More leisure for workingmen is very desirable. In it lies their main hope of progress in: (a) Health. (b) Intelligence. (c) Good citizenship. Gunton' pp. 240-51, 373-7. Congr. Globe, 2nd session, 40th Congr...
...college, to such an extent indeed that the word "university" has fallen in part into ridicule, it cannot be denied that some of the seats of learning on this side of the ocean have as good a right to the title as their compeers across the sea. The progress of university life in all the larger colleges within the past decade has been striking, the broadening of the narrow views on educational affairs, the tendency to treat students like men instead of boys, the founding of new schools of learning in intimate connection with the main body of the college...
...Prof. Agassiz's already proved Glacial Theory. He had himself located the southern boundary of the great ice sheet, which once covered the northern half of this continent, by means of the great heaps of sand and gravel called terminal moraines, pited up by the ice where its progress was stopped. These heaps are sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines. The southern limit, from New Jersey to the Pacific, of this ice-sheet was shown by maps; and, curiously enough, this line also...