Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Librarian of the City of St. Louis would spend more time trying to make his library an up-to-date institution where one can keep in some sort of half-hazard contact with the progress of the modern mind instead of writing notes to the editor of TIME, he would be of much more benefit to humanity...
...Panama, last week, a reunion was in progress. Workers on the great Panama Canal had convened from distant places to recall the days when "The Colonel" moved mountains; to recall how he heard their complaints, helped marry them, fathered them for seven sweating years. From Manhattan came a telegram that "The Colonel," whose ill health had prohibited his passage to the reunion, had died...
...sole gesture toward progress, last week, was made by the International Law Committee when it recommended adoption by the Conference of a preamble to a general treaty which declared, "No state may intervene in the internal affairs of another . . .", and meandered on until one member of the committee, Senor Don Orestes Ferrara, Cuban Ambassador to the U. S., was moved to declare: "These projects are so vague that it would be impossible to incorporate them into a treaty which would mean anything...
...Service in the Manhattan home of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, social bigwig. Said Bishop Manning: "We are living in very interesting times. . . . Great movements are going on all about us. ... I want to say that I hope no one will feel in the least discouraged or doubtful as to the progress of the movement [for union] on account of any pronouncement that may come from anywhere, even though it might seem unfortunate at the moment...
...mark, he will be hard put to it to find a subject for biographical portrait painting. For with the spread of democracy, says Dr. Ludwig, there will no longer be any first class geniuses. Genius will be, so to speak, a community chest from which the expenses of progress will be paid, taking the burden off the individual, and spreading it about upon the shoulders of humanity at large...