Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrary, we must have the boldness required to regard possible disaster with as much calmness as possible good fortune. . . we must resist the temptation to believe that because modern man can survey the present with miraculous case (thanks to modern methods of communication) he can therefore foresee the future more clearly than in other times...
Havre is largely is ruins, although new docks and a new railroad station have been built. These are modern but of small capacity. Paris, on the other hand, seems untouched by the war. The food situation looks good. Ration stamps are unnecessary for a brief visit and gasoline is the only big black market commodity today. French cigarettes, bread, beer, and coffee, reported to be the most unsatisfactory items for tourists in Paris, are being widely enjoyed by Americans here today...
...radio's pioneers, has described the new eater of evenings as a 'Benign Frankenstein,' " the FORUM wonders if there are not "many who would question his use of the word benign." Is there any basis for optimism? "The U.S., essentially unchanged by such other modern advances as the supersonic airplane and the super-septic tank, may survive television. A remote possibility...
...anonymous Frenchman had offered Oxford ?1,500,000 ($6,000,000)-biggest gift ever received from a foreigner, and second largest in modern times.* There were a few strings attached. Most of the money was to be used to start a new college. Its name: St. Anthony's. Its general purpose: training young men "of strong will and character as leaders of the future." One-third of the college's undergraduates must be French. A final condition explained the council's unacademic haste: the offer was a take-it-or-leave-it; the donor was about...
...Harvard World War II dead has announced itself in favor of adding a theatre wing to Memorial Hall. In response to wide student support for an "Activities Center," expressed repeatedly in Student Council polls, the recommendation went on to suggest converting current Memorial Hall basement quarters of the modern Psycho-Acoustic Laboratories into "meeting places and offices for extra-curricular groups...