Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more expert "fellows," tells them to get to work with any of the equipment in the $6,000,000 aluminum-trimmed establishment which Andrew Mellon and his late brother Richard provided. All the worker is bound to do is to give Mr. Weidlein a weekly report of progress. If a Mellon "research" ends profitably, the worker is apt to get a good job with the manufacturer who paid the bills. If the worker is also clever he can get the University of Pittsburgh to award him a doctorate on the strength of the research he performed at the Mellon Institute...
...like the accepted manner of an electron, which characteristically forms high energy photons, which in turn form more electrons to produce the phenomena known as "electron showers." Due to these showers electrons soon lose their energy, and consequently haven't enough "push" to make much progress through lead. These newly-discovered specks, however, pass through ten centimeters of the metal almost undeviated, with little appreciable loss of energy, and producing no showers...
...doing they are living up to the highest traditions of great seats of learning. For centuries in France, England, America and pre-Hitler Germany the great universities have been the torchbearers of intellectual liberty and the nurseries of progress in the eternal struggle to test what is new by what is true. When the German universities have once more regained their freedom American representatives will gladly send their delegates and do them honor. Such greetings as may be sent to Goettingen and other German universities will be coolly polite and perfunctory until the great wrong done to German scholarship...
PEDLAR'S PROGRESS : THE LIFE OF BRONSON ALCOTT - Odell Shepard - Little, Brown...
...known now, if at all. as the father of Louisa May Alcott, best-selling author (Little Women, Little Men). It is Biographer Shepard's well-presented thesis that Bronson Alcott is one of America's almost-forgotten great men. An ably-written, authoritative book, Pedlar's Progress deserves every penny of its $5,000 prize (Little, Brown Centenary), will fit snugly on the same shelf with Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England (TIME...