Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VOICE: You who are part of America at work; part of its muscles stiffening under gigantic tasks; part of its eyes and ears alive to new problems we must solve -listen to this saga of democratic progress...
Britons who stayed tuned in after "Calling All Dogs" heard the Archbishop of Canterbury deliver a gloomy sermon, saying: "In the present condition of the disordered world, we are beholding judgment day. . . . In spite of all the hopes of progress, are these not signs of a return to the dark ages...
...Committee, headed by Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D., Va., and heavily Democratic, fixed the projected appropriation at $725,000,000, specified that it must be apportioned over the full five months ahead, and moved to void Mr. Roosevelt's recent order blanketing 33,000 in Works Progress Administration personnel under civil service by directing that none of the new appropriation be used to pay salaries of those so blanketed...
...individuals an irresistible impulse either to carry off the placard and relax it against the faucet of a washbowl, or else refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove all friction between the wall...
...Macaulay since George Otto Trevelyan's (Macaulay's nephew), published in 1876, is Lord Macaulay (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), by Richmond Croom Beatty, a 40-year-old professor at Vanderbilt University. Outstanding is its fairness, its reconstruction of Macaulay's times. Macaulay's spectacular progress, says Biographer Beatty, came mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress" with social heaven. His real genius...