Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used a wooden cross flute actually owned by Johann Quantz, the greatest Baroque flute virtuoso, and lent by the Boston Fine Arts Museum from its Mason Collection of Instruments. Its tone is uniquely mellow and velvety, and well points up the fact that in the arts there is no progress, but only change. No gain is made without an equal loss...
...with the other Presidents, Dwight Eisenhower of the U.S. underscored its meaning and offered a suggestion in the first major speech he has delivered since his June 8 ileitis attack. "Our Organization [of American States]," he said, "has already begun to apply the principle that the material welfare and progress of each member is vital to the well-being of every other. But we can, I think, do more . . . Each of us should name a special representative to join in preparing for us concrete recommendations for making our O.A.S. a more effective instrument in those fields of cooperative effort that...
...Real progress," said Strauss last week, "has been made with respect to ... achievement of maximum effect in the immediate area of a target with minimum widespread fallout hazards...
When the Russians exploded their first atomic bomb in 1949, many U.S. officials and some scientists expressed public astonishment at Russia's rapid progress in atomic weaponry. The astonishment was based on the general belief that Russia started work on nuclear weapons only after World War II. This is not true, says a recently declassified report by the Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, an outfit which does super-secret long-range research for the Air Force. The Russians started atomic work at about the same time as the U.S., and they were at work during most...
...last month's disastrous mid-air collision of two airliners over the Grand Canyon, looked into the whole question of aviation safety, it found that the U.S. was simply not prepared to handle the traffic jam in its skies. Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles J. Lowen suggested that progress could be made if Congress would approve the balance of funds for CAA's five-year plan to blanket the sky with long-range radar, which shows the exact position of all airborne planes. The committee chairman, West Virginia Democrat Robert H. Mollohan, then went Lowen one better...