Word: onwardness
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...Onward & Upward. Ben McKelway, brother of blond, bland St. Clair McKelway of the New Yorker and Hollywood, has risen steadily in the Star's white-tiled, Gothic pile at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue ever since patriarchal Theodore W. Noyes, its second editor, hired him as a reporter in 1921. Next month he will move into Noyes's triangular, Victorian top-floor office...
...Garrett's pet ideas. She also uses it to adorn the books of the Creative Age Press, a profitable publishing firm she owns. On this month's Tomorrow cover the spiral-which to her signifies the universal urge of beanstalks, nebulae and people to strive onward & upward-was all but invisible. John Richmond, the editor who diminished it, is now gone; next month the spiral (called the "corkscrew" by some irreverent ex-staffers, the "bedspring" by others) will be back as bright as ever...
...U.S.S.R. art may not be long but it is extra tough. Last week the Soviet creative artist got marching orders from Kultura i Zhizn (Culture and Life), a new fortnightly which Moscow's Department of Agitation and Propaganda has founded to guide him onward & upward...
...start he gave it, Pressed Steel coasted onward & upward through 30 years of prosperity, during which stockholders drew $38 million in dividends. Over the years Pressed Steel grew staid and conservative, floundered badly in the Big Depression, went bankrupt in 1933, barely survived a bitter reorganization battle, still operated at a loss...
...most of the moderately liberal Christian churches have silently come round to the Unitarian view of Servetus on the oneness of God, and thus it has ceased to be a live issue. Meanwhile, during the period in which orthodoxy was catching up with liberal thought, the liberals were advancing onward to new and sharper issues, and today the crucial issue about which they speak and think is that of supernaturalism v. naturalism, the issue of two worlds v. one, and, as you would expect, the Unitarian stress is again on the scientific outlook...