Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the Gothic doorways to Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, the great procession formed, bright with the hoods of scholars and notables from all over the world. As the bells of Harkness Tower pealed Onward,, Christian Soldiers, the column moved slowly across the campus to Woolsey Hall. There, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and fellow of the Yale Corporation, called the assembly to prayer. Yale's 250th anniversary celebration had begun...
Marshall got a working agreement for the demobilization, and then left for Washington. When he returned a month later, he found the parties deadlocked. "From that time onward, it was a development of inability to produce any agreements . . . which did not involve such extreme suspicions on both sides that a coalition cabinet to my mind was just out of the question...
...Methuselah, is Shaw's idea of what will happen after the world's present civilization is destroyed-not by the atom bomb (which Shaw thought would not be used), but by an improved version of an old-fashioned poison gas. As Shaw saw it, men will go onward & upward until they learn how to live on air, to get the same sensual pleasure from the pursuit of pure knowledge which their gross fathers got from the pursuit of other things, and finally to take leave of their bodies, becoming a species of intellectual angels. Then, a new race...
Upward and Onward...
...later, some tycoon of the betting world attempts to bring order out of the chaos of sporting unpredictability. Whether he succeeds or fails, there is a bad smell, and sports figures spend a few days paying lip service to the self-destructive tendencies of "big-time sport." Then--onward and upward...