Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medical schools are essential to developments in medical research, Berry argued, since the schools must train the scientists whose discoveries lead to progress. "Research centers are islands independent in themselves," away from many of the main trends of medical progress, he added...
...South's Negroes, despite their economic progress, have been moving north for 40 years; today 2,500 Negroes arrive in Chicago every month. This exodus from the South, an ultimately healthy process, is checked by the wretched conditions under which many Negroes live in Northern cities. The contribution of the North and West to the greatest internal problem facing the nation is not to give in to the Eastlands, nor to try to match them in rancor. It is to hasten the progress of Negroes outside the South, while pressing for all "deliberate speed" in the enforcement...
This economic progress has not been accompanied by the slightest spontaneous relaxation of the rigid social and political controls that Southern whites imposed on Negroes after Reconstruction. (Southern talk that segregation is part of the South's traditional way of life is nonsense; in much of the South, Jim Crow is only half a century old.) Gradualists, North and South, used to comfort themselves with the theory that, with increasing Southern prosperity, the poor whites whose votes enforced segregation would lose their fear of Negro economic competition, and the problem of human rights would then solve itself. Unhappily, this...
Modern Times. In Launceston, Australia, conforming to the civic motto, "Progress with Prudence," city fathers amended an old bylaw requiring swimmers to wear neck-to-knee bathing suits, decided to allow more modern apparel on the beaches, provided the suits cover at least three inches...
...Clinical Heart Disease" Samuel A. Levene, Professor of Medicine, writes of coronary thrombosis that "there is no other condition in the practice of medicine in which it is so difficult to prognosticate... The physician should remain hopeful under the darkest circumstances and yet give a guarded prognosis when the progress seems most favorable...