The progressive era took 20 years to correct abuses of the Gilded Age. The New Deal struggled for a decade to overcome the Great Depression, and the expansion of economic justice lasted through the 1960s.
Stigma (botany) The stigma (plural: stigmata) is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
stigma noun (FEELING) âº [ 1  C usually singular, U ] a strong feeling of disapproval that most people in a society have about something, especially when this is unfair: âº [ 2  C ] the top of the central female part of a flower, where pollen is received.