Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophic speculation is not being met in out society. The old tools of thought are wearing thin, and new ones have to be developed. Old thoughts are beginning to yield diminishing returns. The job of the speculator is to develop these new tools of thought, so vital to progress...
...dynamo in her race against Democratic Incumbent Paul Rogers, 35. She is conducting a Kefauver-type handshaking campaign, but says: "I hope I don't mumble like Kefauver." In Idaho's First District, Republican Louise Shadduck, 39, is just beginning to make progress against 50-year-old Incumbent Democrat Grade Pfost (pronounced, as in her 1952 campaign slogan, "Tie Your Vote to a Solid Post"). In the populous Sixth District of New Jersey, Republican Assemblywoman Florence Dwyer is a real threat to hardworking, young (36) Democratic Representative Harrison ("Pete") Williams Jr. And in West Virginia, Republican Mary Elkins...
...common, cheap and docile laboratory animal: the suckling hamster. The researchers took nasal washings from colleagues with fresh colds, dropped them into the noses of six-day-old hamsters. Two-thirds of the infant animals got human-type colds. Cold researchers rejoiced, hoped now to make faster progress against humanity's stubborn medical nuisance by giving hundreds of hamsters runny noses...
...persuaded a fellow resident to start working a tube into it. With little more than i ft. inserted, the friend quit, protesting that it was too dangerous. A week later, with no helper other than a nurse holding a mirror so that he could watch the tube's progress on a fluoroscope, Forssmann tried again and got 25½-inches of tube through his elbow vein...
According to Mary Schoenheit, "our public schools are antiquated institutions consuming our children's lives and our money and giving us in return trained seals who balance balls on their noses and bark at the right signal." Each pupil must progress at the same rate, and the result is that the school "molds little minds in the same groove, standardizes the children and stifles initiative." For the last month Mrs. Schoenheit has been giving her little Mary lessons in writing, reading, spelling, arithmetic, history and geography. She has also added Spanish and violin lessons. "Mary," she insists, "has done...