Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict between these two groups is primarily at the symbolic level. For traditionalists, any use of the word "growth" or "adjustment" is enough to induce rage, no matter what the context or meaning. Conversely, for many progressives the suggestion that knowledge is best organized into "subjects," or that the mind can profit from "discipline," raises such a repellent image of rote learning and tedious pedantry that they will hear no more of the matter...
What effect Wilson Lodge has had on the club system and on Bicker is hard to gauge. Its new popularity is surely an important development, both eliminating compulsion toward club membership and providing a relatively attractive recourse for Bicker's rejects. Part (but only part) of Wilson's growth may be traced to the announcement last spring of plans for a new Dormitory Quadrangle to replace Wilson Lodge. It will be a modern, Houselike set of structures, with dormitory space for 200 and eating and social facilities...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9--An economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce deplored today the "wringing of hands" in comparing American economic growth with that of the Soviet bloc...
Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers and a vice president of the AFL-CIO, said U.S. production probably still is more than double that of Russia but that economic growth in the Soviet Union is advancing four or five times as fast as this country's has in recent years...
Like other observers. Levine sees the slow growth of a Soviet middle class "more concerned with retention of what it has than with revolution abroad.'' These Communist bourgeois hunger "for contacts with the outside world, for more goods, for a measure of self-expression," and he believes they will act as a brake on "adventurist Soviet policies...