Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portals are clangorous, traffic-jammed pavements, dank, echoing tubes, and steel trestles which never cease to vibrate to the slamming progress of trains. Its lights and liver function with the noisy urgency of a tabloid pressroom. Its buses, trucks & cabs jostle through its arterial streets like stampeding steers. Torrents of humanity pour endlessly down its sidewalks. At night it glares like hell's hottest coke heap...
...world's most esoteric societies was in crisis. For centuries it had successfully evaded persecution, morality and progress. It had ignored Popes and laughed in the face of emperors. But at length it seemed as though the "candles of the last breath" were burning for the People of Pharaoh, otherwise known as the gypsies...
There was progress from the first days of occupation, but not enough to keep the islands going. The U.S. was spending more than $1,000,000 a day to keep the Japanese barely at subsistence...
...Bush points to the G.I. bill of rights as one indication of progress: "The returning veterans ... have not demanded a welter of practical applied courses. In the field of science in particular, there has not been a rush to courses in gadgeteering, rather a wholesome inclination to try to get to the bottom of things scientific...
...Quebec's picturesque Lower Town lies the district of St. Sauveur, a ragged slum in which French Canadians cling to "a mode of life tenaciously wedded to the past and resistant to all progress, obstinately refusing any kind of change for the reason that all change was brought about by outsiders." Unlike the rest of Quebec City's picture-postcard prettiness, St. Sauveur is a wretched place: its proletarian "mulots" are ignorant and desperately poor, its bourgeois "soyeux" (silken ones) often bigoted and pretentious...