Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...structural economies, Breuer's little house was probably not the answer that most home builders with $27,475 to spend were looking for. Like a lot of the paintings in the museum that loomed above it, Breuer's house was perhaps too uncompromisingly "modern" far its own age...
Unfortunately, says Author Bell, modern education, of which the Aldriches are typical products, is less a cure for modern immaturity than a cause of it. This, he asserts, is not the age of the Common Man, but "the Century of the uneducated Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. Untaught in the wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess...
Unlike most pros, Middlecoff did not graduate from the caddie ranks. His father, also a Memphis dentist, was club champion of the Chickasaw Golf Club. At the age of twelve young Cary fired a 77 one day to beat the old man. Like father, he studied to be a dentist, practiced in the Army and with his father after getting his discharge. He played now & then on the big-time golf circuit as an amateur while debating whether to be a full-time golfer or full-time dentist. In 1947, after he married Edith Buck, an airline stewardess, he decided...
Adventures in Science (Sat. 3:15 p.m., CBS). Genetics in the Atomic Age...
...said 'yes', and the Atomic Age was born at that moment." Roosevelt goes on to tell of Conant's jobs on the Top Policy Group in charge of atomic energy, his administrative work on the Manhattan project, and his emotional reaction to the New Mexico test of the bomb, which he watched huddled face down in a trench with his associates, "violently intense...