Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...atomic artillery under test, it did have some fine new weapons, including some that might spell the doom of the dreaded tank. Beneath all of last week's sales talk, though it was so conceitedly ebullient as to raise suspicions of overselling, the hum of scientific progress in weaponeering was real, and the best news in months...
...National Conference of Christians & Jews: "Statesmen ot the Western world must employ all their skill" to establish international good will. "But only spiritual force will gain them the heights of their aspiration because it is only the idealistic man who has the power to give life to progress...
...produce more, with the same amount of human effort, by better machines and organization, is a sound economic and social objective, said Wilson. Both G.M. and the U.A.W., he added, accept the principle. Another cardinal principle of free enterprise is to earn good profits by efficiency and progress, and not by "just collecting a toll . . . Some [people], reluctant to face competition, seem to use free enterprise talk as a cloak for a little extra selfishness...
...unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...