All 3 Uses of
progressive
in
Babbitt
- The roast of beef, roasted potatoes, and string beans were excellent this evening and, after an adequate sketch of the day's progressive weather-states, his four-hundred-and-fifty-dollar fee, his lunch with Paul Riesling, and the proven merits of the new cigar-lighter, he was moved to a benign, "Sort o' thinking about buyin, a new car.†
Chpt 6
- Yet I think you'll find me somewhat progressive.†
Chpt 17 *
- I believe the highest type of Service, like the most progressive tenets of ethics, senses unceasingly and is motived by active adherence and loyalty to that which is the essential principle of Boosterism—Good Citizenship in all its factors and aspects.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(progressive as in: progressive decline) gradually advancing or becoming more severe