Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such subjects as Representation by squares and quadratic integers in a real quadratic corpus and The ecology of young salmon. But. aside from the astronomical lucubrations of Sir James Jeans and one or two other luminaries, the speeches that made most news were on questions of assimilating scientific progress into the quivering corpus of society...
...president of the Association's Zoology Section, Dr. Huxley delivered an address on "Natural Selection and Evolutionary Progress." Natural selection has been subject to much criticism because it does not account for all aspects of evolution and because Darwin gave no emphasis to mutations (sudden changes in the germ plasm). Biologist Huxley sides neither with those who would explain everything by natural selection, nor with extreme proponents of the mutation theory such as Thomas Hunt Morgan. In the Huxley view the two factors complement each other. But: "Natural selection, in fact, though like the mills of God in grinding...
SHERSTON'S PROGRESS-Siegfried Sassoon-Doubleday, Doran...
...presented with unqualified horror in most, with victory or defeat equally intolerable and campaigns and assaults measured in terms of the lives they cost rather than the strategy that determined them. But the War pictured in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress is War as it appeared to a trained and disciplined British officer, winner of the Military Cross, a poet whose mind was filled with thousands of unpoetic, practical problems: getting shoes for his men, remembering the amount of water necessary for a company in a front line trench, memorizing pages...
Sherston's Progress begins with his treatment in a mental hospital, covers his readmittance to active service when his desire to make a martyr of himself ebbed, his service in Ireland, Palestine, his return to his command in France. A simple, moving book, it has little in common with most War literature in its dry ironic tone, its study of Sassoon's effort to free his mind of doubt and concentrate on the task of making himself a good officer for his men. Written with a matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when...