Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best understand science through its tactics and strategy, rather than by means of "even the basic principles or simplest facts," he moves closer to uncharted territory. This approach, President Conant believes, will show the walls and moats around any advance in science, how these hazards can delay scientific progress for as much as 150 years, and the various ways by which they can be overcome. In other words, "On Understanding Science" is, as the title-page asserts, "an historical approach"--an undeveloped, but hardly a revolutionary concept...
...Hand. On the whole, the election returns indicated that General MacArthur was right last month when he said: "The process of democratization . . . takes years." But there were some signs of progress. At Makuwari, farmers and fishermen (who returned the local bosses to power) noticed at least one change. "Once officials were stiff-necked and paid no attention to ordinary people," they said. "Now they come to us and ask us as a favor to vote for them." Commented a U.S. official: "Isn't that the beginning? How else does an awareness of self-government occur...
...know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles; that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare; never be satisfied with merely printing news; always be drastically independent; never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty...
Blow Cold. Patterson thinks the airplane is still in the taxicab stage, and that the day of cheap mass transportation is years away. Nor does he think that some magical new discovery will hasten things much. He believes in inch-by-inch progress all down the line-starting, for example, by cleaning up the washrooms in airports. The recent squabble over whether airlines shall use G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) or I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System) seems silly to him. Says he: "We need them both, one to check on the other. And we shouldn't use them until we learn...
...them, with shocked disbelief. The behavior of their feet, which have a vivid animal reality for the scrubwoman, often gives the lie to what they say. But the drama of physical reality that they create finally becomes so exciting that even the narrator is infected. "Despite myself and the progress I have made by realizing the worth of my floor ... I fall upwards into a social tantrum...