Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were no temptation to Scientist Waksman to take to the easy life. His self-effacing explanation was that he was sure the "age of antibiotics" was only beginning, and he wanted to do what he could to speed its progress. The institute would, he hoped, become a "Mecca for microbiologists...
...brainchild of a 47-year-old architect named Marcel Breuer, who made himself known 24 years ago by inventing tubular steel chairs (in Germany's longtime Mecca of modern architects, the Bauhaus school of design). Architect Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937, taught for nine years at Harvard under his old Bauhaus boss, Walter Gropius, before setting up in business in Manhattan...
...they had ever since the end of World War II, a steady stream of visitors flowed into the U.S. last week, each headed hopefully for his own kind of Mecca, each revealing something of the part the nation was playing in the world...
...King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia was in trouble. The war had cut off the annual Moslem pilgrimages to Mecca, a prime source of his revenue. Ibn Saud needed cash, and he thought the quickest way to get it was to ask Arabian American Oil Co., which held the rich Saudi Arabian oil concession, to fork over an extra $6,000,000 a year. Aramco balked. But in far-off New York was a man who thought he could fix things...
...shooting occurred on the vast plantation of Baker's mother where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and other celebrities have been entertained. The plantation, located 12 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida, is a mecca for hunters...