Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign; we have had to stage weekly meetings, where we talk to church congregations, in most of the district; and we have had to distribute explanatory literature each week through all the local churches. These people have never been exposed to the idea that community activity can mean social progress. It is this simple notion--that progress is possible but can only be achieved through cooperation--that an integrationist group must get across to combat the attitude, constantly reiterated by the local Negroes themselves, that "we people can never stick together, or get anywhere in the white man's world...
...Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology, Boring has written psychology texts, a research monograph on The Physical Dimensions of Consciousness, a war manual (Psychology for the Fighting Man), articles on planaria, dementia precox, sensations in the alimentary canal, mental measurement, and the role of great men in the progress of science. Particularly famous papers dealt with the return of sensation in the arm after nerves have been cut, an experiment he performed on himself, and the "moon illusion"--the difference of the apparent size of the moon when it is on the horizon and when...
...permanent secretariat. Pending ratification, a provisional secretariat will be set up in Addis Ababa, to the delight of Haile Selassie, who dreams of making his ramshackle capital Africa's capital as well. Under the plan, committees would be formed to mediate intra-African disputes, promote economic and social progress, joint defense, and mount a common front against Africa's remaining vestiges of colonialism and white supremacy...
...They are assured of the support of most of Chestertown's Negro leaders, whose security still depends upon their approval. This is an increasingly tenuous sort of arrangement; yet for the past 15 years it has managed to satisfy the Negro community, providing it with unmistakable signs of material progress while masking the fact that Chestertown has not even begun to achieve actual integration...
...Eugene Black, have set up a private investment fund that will use Kuwait's plentiful capital to finance industrial development in the Arab world. Together with the government-sponsored Arab Development Fund, the new Kuwait International Consultants Ltd. (Kinteco) will make Kuwait's potential investment in Arab progress about $1.34 billion. For all his vast experience with big money, even Eugene Black was awed. Said he: "This is going to be one of the world's greatest financial forces...