Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother Disc. Dr. ter Haar prefers his own modification of one of the earliest modern theories, originally proposed by Immanuel Kant in 1755. Kant suggested that the planets condensed gradually from a gaseous envelope surrounding the sun. Later cosmogonists discarded this theory mostly because it did not account for the greater angular momentum of the outer planets. But Dr. ter Haar believes that all Kant needs is a little tinkering...
Editorially, the slow-footed Enquirer is outboxed by the nimble Scripps-Howard Post, which recently backed a successful local campaign to keep proportional representation, over Enquirer opposition. And it still suffers from typographical schizophrenia: modern headlines adjoin archaic one-word holdovers of Civil War days. But the Enquirer can afford to move slowly; it has a monopoly on the morning field. There was a fair chance that the Enquirer's trustees had put too high a price on the paper. Bids, due May 15, might not come within a mile of the $10 million the trustees hoped...
...last week, 41 nations had joined UNESCO, a body with an unwieldy name and an unwieldier problem: the crisis in world culture. Was UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) the right way to attack the problem? At Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week, English Art Critic Herbert Read asked that question. His answer...
...Modern Machlavelli. Franco emerges as Machiavelli's most finished 20th Century disciple. He got what he wanted-if not when he wanted it, at least in time to stave off internal disaster: U.S. oil and wheat when the U.S. and its allies needed both; German weapons and aviation gasoline when Hitler had barely enough for his own forces. How did he do it? As Feis carefully shows, by threats, by false promises, by outright lies, by playing the hopes & fears of the democracies against those of Hitler, and always by beautifully timed dissimulation...
...Geography is not only a basic necessity to our own field, but it is one of the fundamental areas of modern education," the letter said...