Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy and technique was more than made up for by its scope and unfailing liveliness. It was a rare example of a recent but lost art, as far removed from the modern as New Caledonia is from the Mississippi...
...commission's chief criteria had been "durability, dignity and beauty." There was no denying that the monuments they decided upon were on the conservative side. More modern ones, lacking classical associations, might have seemed to lack dignity as well. Among the best-planned and least assuming of those on exhibition was the Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith project for Hamm, Luxembourg, which provided for an ungadgeted chapel and a well planned area for memorial services. The monument that Holabird, Root & Burgee had designed for Henri Chapelle, Belgium was more dramatic, but its forbidding stone facade with 14 rectangular columns...
...shrunken modern world still has pockets of mystery. One of the most mysterious is the Dash-ti-Margo (Desert of Death) in southwestern Afghanistan, where the summer heat rises to 125° F., and the sand-laden wind reaches 90 m.p.h. Last week Anthropologist Walter A. Fairservis of New York City's American Museum of Natural History told how in the midst of Dash-ti-Margo he and two associates had come upon a dead city forgotten by the modern world...
With mounting amazement, the anthropologists drove through the silent streets between crumbling mosques, forts and palaces. They found no footprints, no campfire ashes, no signs that modern men had ever entered the place. The only living creature they saw was a desert viper...
Breakthrough. The exciting science of microbiology is one of the fastest advancing fronts of modern medicine. Ever since Louis Pasteur discovered that many of man's most dreaded diseases are caused by microorganisms, scientists have searched for a drug that would kill the little villains without damaging the tissues of their human victims. A few chemical drugs were synthesized. Salvarsan, "606," developed by Ehrlich, proved to be effective against syphilis. Much later, in 1935, came the sulfa drugs, the medical wonders of their day. But none of the chemical "magic bullets" was effective against more than a few disease...