Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trust that are susceptible to advances by unscrupulous individuals. We have ministers who have become impregnated with the subtle influence of Mammon-worship which should be their deadliest foe. Last of all, we have a whole nation, our own United States of America, willing to go ahead pursuing industrial "progress" at the unmistakable expense of the welfare and happiness of its people...
...desire the improvement and advancement of our nation, "the progress of the group as a group," not imposing itself or its ideas on any smaller or weaker nations, the duty of unselfish service is incumbent upon us; we cannot avoid it, try how we will. Dematerializing men and men's motives seems to me the only way of insuring for America the efficient and progressive democracy which she neds so badly. I fail to see how our present system of education or that proposed by Mr. Lazarus are going to accomplish this. C. S. JOSLYN...
...thought is neither more nor less than a call to take a sensible middle course. Spiritual development of personality must depend on material opportunities; and therefore we should recognize, as a sine qua non for a progressive human being, a frank striving for money--and the time and things it can buy. And the goal of the terrestrial experiment seems to be the progress of the group as a group, even if for no other purpose than to shelter the specimens; and therefore the aim of life outside the ego should be, not service or sacrifice or any such personal...
...cannot be too often impressed upon the American people that the progress of the war depends on materials, not on money. We must not confuse loans and taxes, which are the means, with ships and shells and guns and airplanes, which are the ends for which money is raised and appropriated. The people have been generous in the financial support of the Government; since the declaration of war over ten billion dollars has been lent, or paid in the form of taxes, to the Government. Congress has appropriated unstintingly for every object calculated to assist in the prosecution...
...troops in the execution of various drills, exercises and ceremonies. The event, therefore, will be far more important and interesting than a regulation battalion inspection, and it is expected that all the members of the Second and Third Battalions will be present at Soldiers Field to watch the progress of the ceremony...