Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters to play the provincial circuit, adopted a cautious politician's line. He told disgruntled Tories that their best hope for a return to power was not to commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied. "It's not good enough," said one young lady listener...
...Paul Claudel. Instead, anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and pagan poet Arthur Rimbaud are Father Grosjean's favorites. He says: "I have no political ideas, but if political practice reflected the purity of theory I would be an anarchist. I believe the path of progress that is natural and beneficial for man is toward an anarchist community. Some day I may leave for New Zealand,* where it should be easier to put these ideas into practice...
...object," said Lieut. General Sir Alan G. Cunningham, High Commissioner of Palestine, "is to restore those conditions of order without which no progress can be made toward a solution of the problem of Palestine." In fact, the object was the broadly based Jewish underground Haganah, responsible for illegal immigration of Jews, which has worked closely with the Jewish Agency. Haganah has insisted that its wellarmed, well-organized secret army exists only for self-defense against possible Arab attack...
...news was premature, perhaps, but too good to keep. Though they pointedly avoided any claim that they had found a cure for cancer, two Russian doctors last week made a cautious progress report on a promising line of attack...
Metropolitan District Commission forces have made no progress as yet in their search for a group of 12-to-15 year old boys who pummeled and robbed Edward Henderson '47 in front of the Weld Boat House Thursday night...