Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major investigations for the current year, the Student Council voted last night to conduct a survey of the athletic set-up at "Harvard" including a broad study of the nature and progress of sports as well as their place in the undergraduate life of the college...
Worst of the attitudes taken against American expressions of change and progress is that of a cheap, sensational press, of which the Boston American, especially because of its play-up of Granville Hicks, seems to be a hideous example. To increase its profits and effect the destructive editorial policy of a medievalist, the Hearst papers distort and lie about liberal activities to an audience unfortunately always ready to be deceived and aroused...
...Czecho-slovak cause fortnight ago was that her two top-rank military heads, Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov and Vice Commissar of Defense Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, were not even in Moscow. They were over 3,000 miles away keeping a personal watch on the purge's progress in Siberia...
...their own carrying to market. When Farmer Hand, trucking strawberries, gets stuck in the mud and his strawberries spoil, Centerville's people decide to build a concrete road. Crotchety old Farmer Banks (who is unpopular among Centerville's children because he chases swimmers from his creek) stalls progress by refusing to let his barn be moved out of the way, but finally gives in to avoid accidents at a sharp turn in the road near his farm. He becomes the village's traffic policeman. The plot ends with a surprise staged by Farmer Banks at a Community...
...friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott's journals clears up any remaining doubts about Alcott's importance...