Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flunked Out. In Baltimore, Librarian Ruth Jacobs hunted & hunted for the borrower of Practical Course in Modern Locksmithing, a long-overdue book, found him serving a jail term for burglary...
Waifs from the West. The Soviets admitted them-with some misgivings about Capa (who, in any country, talks and looks like an enemy alien) and his cameras. "The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons," says Steinbeck, "and a man with a camera is suspected and watched." To a polite, but suspicious young man at VOKS, the cultural relations office in Moscow, they tried to explain their mission...
With these words a new national advertising campaign begins this week. Its sponsors : the Knights of Columbus.* The idea originated 3½ years ago in Missouri when a small group of K. of C. businessmen decided to try promoting the Roman Catholic Church with modern sales techniques. They put 20 ads in Missouri papers. Result: hundreds of non-Catholics applied to priests for instruction, 730 people enrolled for instruction by mail...
...Modern Language Center, under the direction of Professor G. W. Sherburn comprises the third major collateral organization. Although students are required to have a thorough speaking knowledge of English before they enroll, discussion with language-teaching faculty members and other students at the Center are of constant...
Citing the "tremendous vigor of technology" required by modern civilization, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, predicted Thursday that the capital expansion involved may duplicate by 1990 the increase in reproducible wealth accomplished in the United States during the 60 years prior to World...