Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public-power giveaway . . . Virtually all progress in the power program has stopped because the Administration has not asked Congress for funds for a single major new public-power start, and has said it will refuse to spend funds provided by the Democratic 84th Congress for 107 new projects...
...scientific revolution in agriculture is in progress. Examples of high-level science applied to agriculture...
...Work Load. "In summary, the progress to date has been excellent and encouraging, but he has not yet been subjected to his full load of work. Four or five weeks of exposure to that should suffice for a medical estimate as to the ability of his heart to stand the work. If, for example, he should resume pretty much his full job in the second week- I think about the 9th of January-four or five weeks added on to that date would be the time that we doctors would think desirable for that more or less final test...
Hogarth's Progress, by Peter Quennell, provided a guided tour of 18th century London, together with a biography of that city's great "phizmonger," William Hogarth. A lusty, busty period and the fine artist who did most to celebrate it got something like their...
...left, capitalism v. socialism-have today become less relevant than they were. The great issue now, as any man of reason must see it, says Koestler, is relative freedom v. absolute tyranny. As for the notion cherished by the left that private property is the chief obstacle to human progress and brotherhood, this has in fact been answered by the Soviet Union, which has set up in the name of socialism a more hypocritical and merciless tyranny than any state in history could match, lie for lie, bludgeon for bludgeon. Yet this is a fact which, as Koestler admits...