Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota's Senator Humphrey [TIME, Jan. 17] leaves some hard questions unanswered. Assuming that he is "too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise," is he not just another Senator Claghorn with a "new look"? Is modern statecraft so simple an art that it can be mastered by one who learns his economics from South Dakota dust storms, and campaigns by visiting all the county fairs and eating hot dogs until they "come out of his ears...
Whipple became famous last year for his work on the Dust-Cloud Hypothesis, the modern theory on how the solar system developed. His theory has virtually replaced the older Planetary and Nebular Hypotheses, which were proved implausible several years...
Last November a farmer was brought into Panama City's modern Santo Tomas hospital with a high fever. Next day he died. Another man running a terrific fever was admitted to the hospital; he died within 48 hours. A fortnight later a farmer reached the hospital spewing vomito negro-once a recognized sign of yellow jack. He also died, and within a month two more men died the same...
...points out that in the past 100 years the amount of alcohol (not alcoholic beverages) consumed has gone up only .02%; more beer and less whiskey is being drunk today. But the point is that there are a lot more people around who have reached the drinking age. The modern world, Hirsh says, encourages drinking. It is a "world of acute tensions and violence, and it is from this kind of world that sick people come...
From Hand to Hand. The third daughter brought real trouble: she married a Gentile. Tevye could overlook modern love, even revolutions, but not apostasy. Rising to his dignity as a believer, he sorrowfully banished his daughter from his house. And yet, he wondered, did he do right? Does a Tevye close his heart to his children...