The urge to development, to material progress, is overwhelming.
We needed buildings that could elevate our belief in material progress to a higher plane.
The material progress was due primarily to the opening of the Manila ports to world trade.
The year 1964 saw Franco celebrating 25 years of peace, order and material progress.
But great material progress has been made, even though much has yet to be done.
These people, after taking over the local political power, developed a coffee industry and brought some material progress to the town.
To achieve this goal political freedom must accompany material progress.
But none of this cancels the fact that over the past 25 years more people have seen greater material progress than ever before in history.
In addition, in this way we can see the material progress made within a year.
A man's fortune or material progress is very much the same as his bodily growth.