Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show that he meant business, Mr. Green described the progress of A.F. of L.'s new International Maritime Federation, "the biggest effort we have ever made in the maritime industry." A double wedge to pit Harry Lundeberg's dissident Sailors' Union of the Pacific against C.I.O.'s West Coast longshoremen and A.F. of L.'s Atlantic longshoremen against C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union in the east, the Federation, said Mr. Green, was starting with 25,000 members, aiming...
...while crossing from Nassau to Miami. Said he: "Tumultuous trade wind clouds towered to gigantic heights and there were occasional squalls of rain. About 11 o'clock, when the moon was well up in the southeast sky, the rainbow appeared in the northwest, where a thunderstorm was in progress. The prismatic colors were fairly distinguishable. The arc was complete, the two ends dipping into...
Intermittent spells of heat and torrential rains failed to shake the steady progress of the work, as 85 laborers toiled constantly to keep the work on schedule. At one time, heavy rains and sub-surface water necessitated working in water until the foundation, sinking 22 feet below the surface, was laid. Since that time, no serious obstacles have arisen to impede the work, and the Center will be finished on time, according to construction managers, on or about December...
Psychology Professor Knight Dunlap, of the University of California at Los Angeles, last week made a proposal* shocking to many a U. S. educator: that humanity should be told that it is sometimes a duty, for the sake of human progress, to commit crime. Children, said he also, should learn that it is sometimes necessary to defy their parents. His thesis: if nobody ever broke a bad law, mankind would eventually get into a rut, sink back into savagery...
Some laws, said the professor, are bad from the beginning, others worse, with time and change. Unless someone dares to violate such laws and leads others to disregard them, they are not repealed, block progress. Sample bad laws: Prohibition, antigambling, anti-birth control. Professor Dunlap's list of history's lawless heroes: Jesus Christ, Margaret Sanger, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, George Washington (crime: treason against Britain), several other unnamed U. S. Presidents...