Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern methods of teaching can and should give children what they need as well as what they want. ... It is unfortunate that faddists have warped teachers', as well as the public's, conception of progressive education. (The term is a stupid redundancy. Education implies progress.) Not until teachers are adequately trained and rewarded for their technical skill and knowledge can modern teaching be progressive in practice...
...Some progress had been made on the Austrian draft treaty (such as an agreement "in principle" that Allied troops should be withdrawn 90 days after the treaty's signature). But still unsolved were the most important issues: Russia's demand for a free hand over anti-Communist D.P.s in Austria and her insistence that Austrian property which had been seized or absorbed by the Nazis be surrendered to Russia as reparations (TIME...
...procedural deadlock meant that the Foreign Ministers at Moscow would have to go over the same ground again before they could tackle the problems of Germany's future. Nevertheless, Washington still hoped for progress in Moscow, thought agreement on reparations and perhaps Germany's boundaries might be reached as a first installment of the peace...
...crust of bread symbolizing 900 calories a day, but let's think far more intently on whether we are to keep alive this vital force-about the only optimists left alive in Europe or Asia-or let it die, and with its death, let tumble the victory of progress over cruelty and degradation, won so recently...
...musical, the expense is less, and the necessary success is less, so the gamble is less. Furthermore, if the show is a flop, the less is less. A musical flop, usually costing around $250.000 is big business, and big business is interested in profits not progress...