Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont last night asserted that reduction of President Eisenhower's budget is a "hopeless thing" until progress is made towards "the ending of national armaments...
Flanders felt that the Soviet government was now "seriously inclined" to agree to arms reduction, because of the growing dissatisfaction of the Russian people with their "slow progress towards a better life." A second fear of the Russian rulers, he added was that the "stalemate of terror" produced by exclusive U.S. and Soviet possession of atomic weapons had ended, and that a smaller nation might get "trigger-happy...
America has done a great deal to sell herself abroad. She has entered monstrous exhibits at trade fairs, spent millions of dollars on information services, sponsored trips of prominent Negroes to talk on America's progress in civil rights, and constantly affirmed her desire for peace. In some areas these programs have shown successful results, but behind the Iron Curtain, where there is a burning curiosity among the people to find out about America, our propagandists are either non-existent or useless...
Walkie-talkies had not been invented in 1910, when Humorist Robert Benchley delivered his uproariously unmedical lecture, "Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera," so the imaginary expedition from gullet to fundament could make no on-the-spot broadcasts of its progress. Last week Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research announced the development of a tiny capsule FM transmitter that can make just such broadcasts. It is small enough (|⅛in. long, 4/10 in. in diameter) to be swallowed like an oversized pill. Conceived by New York Physician John T. Farrar, the plastic-encased transmitter was designed...
...Journalism's technological progress has bred too much sameness and mediocrity, according to Editor Henry Beetle Hough of Massachusetts' weekly Vineyard Gazette (circ. 4,993). Examples: "If the same standards that apply to local newspaper writing on the score of interest, concision and carrying its own weight generally were to be applied to some of the syndicated columns of random comment and discourse, the columns would be thrown out of the paper ... As for the editorial pages of the daily newspapers, it is easy to imagine that the visitor from Mars would at once assume they could...