Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father, we pray that the people of America, who have made such progress in material things, may now seek to grow in spiritual understanding...
...Kalitinsky sounded hopeful, as if he had items of progress which he wished he could crow about. But he warned his listeners not to "expect to see an atomic-powered rocket taking off for the moon this year or next...
...Greece, ex-OSS General William J. Donovan announced that the Greek "authorities are handling the case satisfactorily." Some U.S. newsmen, in Greece when George Polk died, were not so sure. Neither was CBS. Three top CBS staffers (Edward R. Murrow, Howard K. Smith and Don Hollenbeck) broadcast a progress report on an independent investigation now being conducted by two CBS legmen...
...Progress was made in combating man's No. 1 enemy in the tropics: 1. Jungle...
...Folly of the Victors. One theme dominates the first half of The Gathering Storm: the insensate folly of the victors of World War I in allowing the wicked to rearm. Churchill himself steadfastly warned the world against Hitler's progress from conquest to conquest, to crimes without equal "in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record." That he was personally happy during these bitter years-painting, writing and lecturing-does not seem to lessen their pain in his memory...