Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting on the New Lecture Hall speech of Jan Masaryk, Benes hailed the diplomat's report of his nation's post-war vigor as a "sign of the continuous striving for progress" which he said has characterized the republic since its rebirth...
...National Defense Research Council, he played a dominant role in the development of the atomic bomb, which brought World War H to a closs. As President of Harvard and as Chairman of the N. D. R. C., the organization which controlled and promoted most of the scientific progress during...
Harvard Historian Schlesinger* is almost apologetic about this busman's holiday-a review of American books of etiquette from the 17th Century to the present day. "Nothing that concerns human beings can fail to concern the historian," he wrote; "the rise and progress of courtesy . . . deserves attention...
Aims of the group were confined principally to furthering interest in the United Nations, and in promoting public discussion of the issues which confront that group. The College Council stands opposed to the world federalist idea, feeling that progress must come through the United Nations...
With Trieste, the Danube, and a Sarajevo-like delicatessen shooting temporarily disposed of, attention can be riveted upon United Nations progress with the disarmament problem. Russia made an important concession last week in agreeing to international inspection of world disarmament, including the abolition of atomic weapons. But her insistence upon keeping the veto power in disarmament questions has drawn a storm of criticism not only to the Soviet proposal but to the motives behind it as well. Some of the criticisms are thoughtful; others contain an air of cynicism that add little to the discussion...