Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truly scientific minds were attracted to its pursuit. Working patiently and slowly, and confining their theorizing to the field of science proper, where theories must stand up to every devisable proof, these great scientists discovered many fundamental laws of physics and chemistry, from which flowed the immense mechanical progress of our own times. Quite incidentally to their pursuit of truth, they enriched the world materially to an immense extent; and even more incidentally, they made it possible for "scientific investigators" to earn a living as such. The various branches of science are no longer a vocation; they are split into...
...them be now turns to a lesser form of life and decrees the abolition of the common house-fly, a creature that infests Rome no less than any other city. Every citizen will be expected to co-operate and fines will be imposed on those who can report no progress made by them in the great campaign...
...significant that the airplane, instrument of swiftest progress, was purchased by a "24-hour newspaper" (morning and evening combination) and the only newspaper in its city. It is to be used as part of the regular equipment, not as a stunting device to outdo, for the moment, a competitor...
Seeing Sounds. Some happy progress has been made in electrically changing the sound patterns of words into light patterns, which deaf adepts can read intelligently. To study the cause, cure and prevention of progressive deafness, the American Otological Society is raising $500,000.-Dr. Max. A. Goldstein of St. Louis...
...bring into being a liberal party that shall not have for its aim the good-natured joshing of the populace, the policy of the party out of power; nor of political corruption, an important activity of the party in power but the hitherto unrealized program of concrete social progress...