Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire country worthy to be president of that university. They must choose for that office a man [General Eisenhower] who never has had any connection with an educational institution. They must choose one who has no claims to scholarship along any line, one who knows nothing of ancient or modern languages and cultures, nothing about the vast realms of modern science, nothing about the intricacies of research, or even about the qualifications making for success in teaching. If Columbia can commit this absurdity, why not every other university in the land? No longer are educators to strive to grow...
...southern state of Chiapas, were told that no money had been appropriated for their section of the highway, they offered to work free if they had an engineer to show them how. Mexico City sent down Engineer Fernando Zurita. Under his direction the people tackled the job without modern machinery, using picks and shovels like Chinese coolies on the Burma Road...
...home to Halifax, spirits were high. The morning's "wups"* had been successful. Sailors lazed on upper decks, chatted about a forthcoming Atlantic cruise. Ahead, inside Sambro lightship, lay dense patches of fog, but that was nothing to worry about. The Micmac's radar was the most modern afloat. She sounded her klaxon, stepped briskly into a fog bank at 20 knots...
...Finnish children, who had the most impressive collection, had used crayon in high, hot keys. The Scottish and English showed strong influences of modern art: they had obviously been to art galleries. The Swedes and Norwegians were neat, sure and uninspired. The French were the most elaborate...
...were Muscovite zealots, they could still be no more effective than their fellow employees' morale allowed. The Presidential and Republican pretense that the more exposure of Federal workers to such employees' Marxism means automatic conversion, is something less than believable. The question here is academic, of course, because few modern Communists publicize their affiliations. This evasion has provided a field day for the witch hunters, who now define a Communist as anyone who is friendly with anyone who is a Communist--who is in turn defined as a Communist because . . . and thus these Congressmen who often despise modern cultural movements...