Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...core of a truly superb Shakespearean repertory company. I am not unaware of the Shakespearean achievements at the Antioch Festival in Ohio and elsewhere, but the sun is shining most brightly over Stratford, Connecticut. If great things are done for Shakespeare, they seem certain to be done here. Much progress has been made, much remains to be made. The people involved must not slacken for a moment. We must support them to the limit and say, "Get on with the job." They in turn must do just that; for that is now their duty as well as their privilege...
...sixth-largest oil producer, it has allotted 70% of its revenues in a far-sighted Development Board program to double the country's standard of living in ten years. In seven years, Iraq's per-capita income has advanced from $84 to $140. But this slow progress against immense poverty, illness and illiteracy had to contend constantly with the cries of Arab nationalism, the eroding torrent of abuse and incitement to revolt that poured from Cairo Radio, and the intrigues of Nasser-minded army officers...
...quizzed by Bayne-Jones's group. Or as Dr. James A. Shannon, director of the National Institutes of Health (which handles 70% of the Government's outlays in this field), last year told Congress: "For the first time in the history of medical research, the limitation on progress is due more to [shortage of] manpower than moneys available...
...Albright was in the U.S. when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, but photographs were airmailed to him, and he was the first scholar outside the Holy Land to verify their age and authenticity. His observation, bearing the Scrolls in mind: "Of all sciences, the two making the most progress today are nuclear physics and Palestinian archaeology...
Magic DMA. Since the Neurospora breakthrough, chemical genetics has made startling progress. Its most important movement has been down the scale of size toward the actual chemical molecules that control life and reproduction...