Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most curious aspect of this reaction has been the strength and steady progress of a quiet campaign to add four bizarre amendments would be to turn the Constitution into a sort of half-baked Articles of Confederation. Their main support, unsurprisingly, comes from the same extremists of the right who seem to believe that the Constitution was written...
...progress, per brick and per patient, than any other hospital in the world...
...scientific investigation of Scripture begun by Protestant Germany's "Higher Critics." It was a false dawn. Under Leo's successor, Pius X (1903-14). church officials took arms against the heresy of modernism-which taught that Catholic dogma should be revised in the light of progress made by science and philosophy -and Bible scholars proved to be handy targets. Some found their writings placed on the Index; the top Catholic scholar of his day, Dominican Father Marie Joseph Lagrange, was dismissed from his teaching posts and for a time forbidden to pursue his critical investigations...
...past the year 2000, but their own training of two decades ago might almost as well have been in 1900. As recently as 1950, for example, few engineering undergraduates were learning much about relativity, plasma physics or probability theory, all now of major importance. "This tremendous avalanche of technological progress has outstripped them," says Gordon S. Brown, dean of M.I.T.'s engineering school. The professors furiously read technical journals, adds Brown, "but sometimes even the stuff in the journals is two years behind...
Bruce Galphin, a Nieman Fellow and race relations reporter for the Atlanta Constitution; told a Dunster House Forum last night that Georgia's experience may offer hope for similar progress in Mississippi and Alabama. He warned, however, that the absence of certain educational and economic factors in these states may prove the hope to be a false...