Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic skill along with his brushes. He was still a boy when he had his first one-man show, in the doorway of an umbrella-maker's shop in La Coruña. At 18 he took off for Paris, the artists' Mecca, which has been his base of operations ever since...
...Desai-Khurody farm shows important progress against two of India's biggest problems: malnutrition, and the misuse of its tremendous cattle population, the world's biggest. Says Khurody: "I want to make this a sort of Mecca to which pilgrims can come from all over India to learn about cow culture...
...fifth grade, he fell for his first girl, a curly-headed classmate named Florence; 14 years later he married her. At the University of Illinois he decided to make education his career, later went on for a Ph.D. at Columbia University's Teachers College, the nearest thing to Mecca in modern education. There, the winds-of doctrine blew about him, from the fiery progressivism of Deweyite William Kilpatrick to the suave conservatism of William ("I'd rather be right than Progressive") Bagley. As Kenneth Oberholtzer proceeded on his career, he found his own philosophy "somewhere in between...