Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manager of the Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Ore. reported that the old-fashioned traveling salesman is as extinct as the old-fashioned farmer's daughter. Modern commercial travelers register as "traveling executives...
Officially, Pakistan was as altruistic as India. Its troops were there, said Jinnah's government, to prevent refugees from crossing the borders. Meanwhile, on a 300-mile front that stretched crescent-like across India's biggest state, the fighting raged in one of the strangest wars of modern times...
...balances. The boom had done great things for Mexico. It had built new roads and had equipped them with so many new cars, new trucks, new buses that the country's faithful little burros were beginning to be pushed aside. It had reared a whole new generation of modern buildings in the capital, including a race course and two new bull rings. It had started new industries. It had put 8,000 tractors in Mexico's fields and 100 new diesel locomotives on her tracks. It had given rich Mexicans nylon stockings, electric refrigerators, radios...
First prizewinner was Giorgio Morandi, a mild modern who has become, at 58, Italy's favorite artist. Morandi's splendid reputation might be difficult for some exhibition visitors to grasp. It is built on his collection of used bottles, which he arranges in table-top still lifes and paints in a manner as surpassingly empty and dry as the bottles themselves...
...Greeks long barred women from the games, even as spectators, under penalty of death. But women have competed in the modern Olym pics since...