Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howe contended that the end of segregation would be more peacefully and and stably effected as the result of a process of gradual social change. Other negative speakers echoed his views, and the final vote was 11 to 6 against Court abolition...
...gradual liberalizing of the regulations in the College followed soon after similar changes in Commonwealth law. In 1792, John Gardner came to the defense of the drama in a speech in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, in which he said that "the illiberal, unmanly, and despotical act which now prohibits theatrical exhibitions among us, to me, Sir, appears to be the brutal, monstrous, spawn of a sour, envious, morose, malignant and truly benighted superstition." In 1794 the first theater opened in Boston...
Adoption by Congress of the Chamber of Commerce plan would mean the virtual destruction of effective federal social insurance. But such a step is necessary neither for economics nor political expediency. There is nothing wrong with our present Social Security system. Its supporters plan gradual increases every five years in the amounts paid by both employers and their employees until 1970 when each party will pay three and a quarter percent. These increases would keep the present fund completely stable and autonomous despite the predicted sharp rise in the number of aged people. The Chamber of Commerce calls three...
...formulated this political philosophy shortly after the close of the war, but his theory of aesthetics has seen gradual revision. His is a practical approach to art, learned not in the classroom but as an official in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1931, when he became a professor of fine arts at the University of Edinborough, embarrassed officials hastily granted him an M.A. To this, Leeds later added an honorary doctorate. His most recent honor was election to knighthood last New Year...
Actual job placement, one of the major services offered, has undergone a gradual change since its inauguration. "Each year, more and more undergraduates are attracted to the program," Newby said. Of 845 registrants in 1952-53 251 were undergraduates or graduates, although the plan was originally intended for seniors...