Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain was certainly not going Fascist, but the recent progress made by Sir Oswald Mosley's old friends was a symptom of how sick, politically and economically, Britain was. Young Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt visited some of these meetings. Last week, in the New Statesman and Nation, he reported on what he had seen...
There were conditions: 1) the recipients must state the purpose for which they intend to use the isotopes and agree to stick to that purpose; 2) they must make progress reports to the U.S.; 3) they must open their laboratories to visiting scientists from other countries. Prices were low, but F.O.B. Oak Ridge...
...atomic dragon's trainers are learning how to gentle him. They have a long way to go. The dragon is still too fractious to harness; his fiery breath is still deadly. But last week the trainers announced important progress; atomic energy may yet do more good than harm. Some day the dragon may be yoked to a plowshare...
...inhabit the body of a surviving one, with happy results in the ring and at the movie box office. This time Mr. Jordan reaches higher for heavenly intervention, and escorts it a bit lower. The rosy shade of Terpsichore (Rita Hay-worth), outraged by a Broadway work-in-progress called Swinging the Muses, comes down to earth and gets into the act. She immediately dances herself into the lead of the show, and into a fine kettle of fish...
...abstain from hair-cutting and hair-combing, the two emissaries wore their long hair properly matted and wound round their heads. Their naked chests and foreheads were streaked with sacred ash, blessed by Sri Amblavana. In an ancient Ford, the evening of Aug. 14, they began their slow, solemn progress to Nehru's house. Ahead walked the flutist, stopping every 100 yards or so to sit on the road and play his flute for about 15 minutes. Another escort bore a large silver platter. On it was the pithambaram (cloth of God), a costly silk fabric with patterns...