Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breath of Determination. Two old rivals had set a shining example for the 16 nations. For five months a French-Italian commission had talked over possibilities of gearing the French and Italian economies together as an efficient machine. Last week some details leaked out; they indicated far more progress than observers had expected...
...childhood, Believer Joad worships regularly at his parish church in Hampstead or at the church near his Hampshire country place. But he has lost none of his saucy skill at dialectic. He explained last week: "When war came, the existence of evil hit me in the face. . . . Human progress is possible, but so unlikely. People don't know how to conceive it." Wrote Pessimist Joad shortly after the end of the war: "I see now that evil is endemic in man, and that the Christian doctrine of original sin expresses a deep and essential insight, into human nature...
...presumably U.S. rocketmen are making progress. To judge from the photograph (the only information released), the Aerobee is much slimmer and lighter than the V2. It is probably an experimental model built, not to make any impressive altitude records, but to test improvements in motive power and control...
...Citizen's Duty. Alleghany Corp.'s Robert R. Young registered with Congress as a lobbyist for his Federation for Railway Progress. Said rambunctious Railroader Young: "It is a citizen's duty to work for constructive legislation. If that is lobbying, we are proud of our new calling-lobbyist...
...letter of protest to President Conant earlier this month, Raisz, the senior active member of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, stated that "the demand for good geographers and cartographers continues strong. Harvard cannot progress without geography any better than it could without history...