Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Obviously Harvard has outgrown the meagre quarters of our gymnasium. . . . The time has come. I believe, when Harvard herself should take in this matter a step consistent with her general progress...
...George V entered the third month of his illness, the King-Emperor was officially described as "making slow progress" and unofficially as "brighter." Last week His Majesty napped frequently, displayed a keener appetite, chatted with Queen Mary several times daily, and asked, but was refused, permission to read...
...Turkey, kinetic President Mustafa Kemal holds that intellectual progress depends solely upon quick assimilation of Western ideas...
From then on no place was secure from his visitation. New Lecture Hall, Fogg, Harvard Hall, wherever an examination was in progress, there was the chance that the unsigned book would be turned in and a proctor reduced to helplessness by a stare from the mysterious eyes...
...being as informative as possible. To be sure, there is no particular sensation in the fact that a scientific man believes in evolution, but just because newspapers want exciting headlines is no excuse for misconstruing what a scientist really does say. The press can do its best for the progress of science by emphasizing the dominant truth of its facts rather than making use of spectacular but misleading flourishes...