Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called ''indoor baseball played out-doors"), it took root only in recent years, then sprouted all over the country as a recreation for office and factory workers and a spectator sport for folks with only a dime to spend. In 1933. when the Chicago Century of Progress put on a national Softball tournament as part of its sport program, the game received its biggest boost. Today there are some 5,000,000 players (men and tomboys) and 200,000 teams (sponsored by churches, movie stars, saloons, banks) with names ranging from Slapsie Maxie's Curvacious Cuties...
Academically, it is healthy that the student attack learning in an independent fashion. If indifference means no more than this, who can object? But if the criticism voiced recently by a Harvard lecturer is true--that indifference means aloofness to social progress (a better phrase than conservatism), it is time to sit up and redefine the slogan. This lecturer, Mr. Rollo Brown, claims that "it is no more to be expected that Harvard will kick free of her restraints and lead off boldly in behalf of any economic democracy that would elevate large numbers of submerged individual men to opportunities...
Reason for this optimism was that, after weeks of excruciatingly slow progress by naval and land forces up the valley of the broad, brown Yangtze, Japanese troops suddenly knifed through stubborn Chinese defense lines and penetrated to Wusueh, on the north bank of the Yangtze, only 80 crow miles from their goal. In Hankow, Chinese military heads, preparing for a last-ditch stand, ordered evacuation of 20,000 women to facilitate defense of the area, and by week's end 1,000 of them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from...
Century ago the most notable thing about Protestant Christianity was that most of its practitioners throughout the world were optimists who believed in progress, creature comforts, civilization. Such Protestants looked down their noses when Pope Pius IX, speaking for the Roman Catholic Church, denied that it was the duty of Catholicism to come to terms with political or religious liberalism. Today, progress is not so popular a notion, and liberalism has few friends among European religious thinkers...
...dispute the statement. Columbia School of Journalism's Assistant to the Dean Herbert Brucker was delegated to draw up a report on these solicited scripts and on transcriptions taken from the air. Although the N. A. B. has been guardedly quiet about the survey's progress, last week Motion Picture Daily's Jack Banner upset the applecart, published general conclusions, several details he said he drew from the report...