Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Ordinary Blokes." Lord Addison conferred with Labor's Herbert Morrison. Labor would agree to a conference, on condition that it would not affect the progress of the bill to clip the Lords' powers. That was not satisfactory to the Tory Lords. Debate ranged wide. Lord Lindsay of Birker, who is also the learned Master of Oxford's Balliol College, needled the aristocrats. What the House of Lords needed, he suggested, was "some ordinary blokes...
After mentioning the background of "long political and cultural awareness" in Czechoslovakia, and outlining the progress made there in literature, music, and drama since the war, Matthiessen pointed out that "there are now no Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. The Czechs regard the Soviet Union with gratitude for their liberation, but they do not want to be called upon to choose between the East and the West...
...hailed the "intimate fusion of the advance in science with progress in the practical arts," and compared the current fraternal spirit of engineers and theoretical scientists with that fostered by the Lawrence Scientific School...
...little circumstances surrounding Gandhi's death, in the sordid surroundings of his funeral, there were hints of the real Gandhi, the Gandhi who did not escape reality but pursued it in the teeth of all the windy words like "power" and "progress...
...poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...