Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Like a mountain village in the path of a gathering avalanche, the world helplessly awaited the approach of one of the least promising international conclaves in history. In all probability, the results would show that seldom have so many traveled so far for so little in terms of progress achieved...
...experimenting British authorities closed down the common water pump in a busy London square and saw the bustling city's cholera rate drop dramatically. From that experience came a valuable lesson in public health: disease can be transmitted by polluted water. In the years since, along with his progress in sanitation and health, man has picked up new ways of polluting his environment. The new, more subtle contaminants bear such exotic names as alkyl benzene solfonate and acrolein, and they differ in one major respect from the contaminants of a century and a half ago. They are man-made...
...stiff three-R curriculum. For the first grade: reading taught by phonics, writing with spelling (now often delayed until third grade), arithmetic emphasizing basic principles. Science and foreign languages should begin no later than sixth grade. From elementary grades on, statewide tests should check on each school's progress. To jolt high schools, state-run colleges should report on freshmen performances-and school boards should publish the results...
...breed-and the stars of the shows-were nearly 100 machine tools of a wholly new kind, the brilliant offspring of the marriage of the automated machine and the computer's electronic brain. They represented a giant stride toward the ultimate goal of man's industrial progress: machines able to run themselves...
...fact, computer progress has outrun man's ability to prepare magnetic-tape instructions complex enough to keep the brains busy. The ideal computer would be one that operators can instruct verbally. Bell plans to build one able to hear and obey some 50 words...