Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is a step in the right direction. It is certainly better than mailing to our cultural workers various revisionist scribblings dealing with national Communism and earmarked solely for export. While we reject such malicious tricks, it is with the greatest pleasure that we become acquainted, through Three Hundred Years of American Painting, with the true national culture of the American people...
...reduction is a rather irrevocable step. Once taxes are reduced, it will be difficult to raise them again. Should the present recession prove temporary, we would want to have them back, and fairly promptly. We can't have a deficit in both depression and boom. Life is not yet that wonderful. There are other reasons for favoring public works. Schools and aid to education, research support and facilities, health facilities, urban rental housing, urban redevelopment, resource development, metropolitan communications, are all deficient or lagging. We should first make jobs building the schools...
last year. The second step would be an aggressive easing of credit by the Federal Reserve. The third step would...
...bureau has high hopes for SEAC. Step by step, like a once-blind person learning to see, the computer is learning to recognize patterns. It can count dark or light objects in a photograph, measure the area of each and report how many are bigger than a specified size. It is not fooled by such complicated shapes as spirals or circles, and it ignores such distractions as specks of dirt. It can recognize printed letters and numbers, and the bureau hopes that soon it will identify diagrams, chemical formulas...
...front name for a Comintern school, training foreign Communists to take over in their old homelands when the Russians won the war. The first odd thing about Tom Red's schooldays was that the hero had to change his name (he chose Linden). It was one step in the dehumanization process to which the curriculum was bent. His old pals from Moscow greeted him as a stranger. It was a rule; no one was to know anything about anybody...