Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplemented next winter when a series of lectures on contemporary American problems and their relations to the past will be given by first-rank authorities from Harvard and other American universities. Both undergraduates and the public will be invited to attend these lectures, and later to measure their progress by taking examinations. Book prizes, the gifts of Mrs. Warren, will be awarded to the most successful...
...origin and development of the mammal class is one of the most significant features of Mesozoic evolution. The cold-blooded ancestors of man and the other animals, who were somehow equipped to survive the conditions that eliminated most of their follow reptiles, have left relatively little evidence of their progress during these hundrd million years...
Outlining the progress of the Polish government, the Count continued, "Organization of labor is on a nationalistic and in some cases socialistic basis, but it is not international. Also social security legislation has been in effect for several years...
...viewing the progress which had been made, he said, "Civic and governmental improvements were plentiful, but despite continual expansion and expenditure, finances were carefully enough controlled to give Cincinnati a tax rate of only $18.88 per $1000, the lowest of any city exceeding 300,000 population in this country...
...this suggests that Hilton's characters are symbols, that the whole idea is an allegory. Conway may be the intelligent person who arrives through a philosophy of moderation and kindness at carthly happiness. His brother may represent the many who balk at progress, who disbelieve all doctrines that are new or that they cannot understand. The men who drink the toast in the end may be the majority who all have faith in some Utopia but have not yet seen...