Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...credentials for his candidacy, and he made the most of it. The first Republican Congress since 1931 was organized, he said, "without friction and without Bilbo." With few exceptions, "differences within the party were reconciled in the party interest." Despite criticism from "Communists, New Dealers, the C.I.O. . . . and those modern planners who do not really approve of Congress at all," the 80th passed more important laws than any previous Congress...
Marine Marvel. Even to jaded voyagers, the Queen Mary was still a marvel of naval architecture. From her straight, businesslike stem to her bulging cruiser stern the Queen represents a blending of many ancient and modern arts. Her builders had to wrestle with the problem of constructing a hull of titan strength to withstand almost unimaginable strains as the seas pass under her 1,020 feet, lifting her first by the bow, then amidships, then astern. The propulsion engineers used the power of 50 locomotives to drive the four screws, each 20 feet across and weighing 35 tons, which...
...that only a limited number of Indians were admitted to trade at one time. Then the guns disappeared, and the stockades, but still you had a more or less isolated post, with a few houses growing up around it. Then the settlement grew into a town, and a modern store developed-often on the very site of the old fortified post. Today, we don't try to limit the number of customers. Times have changed...
Frustrated Immigrants. "Catholics too have much to derive from the Moses of modern psychiatry and his followers. To begin with, Catholics must recognize the fact and the importance of the unconscious. . . . Having realized under the promptings of Freud the implications of our own doctrines, we should take the next step and recognize the instrument, par excellence, for investigating the unconscious, namely, psychoanalysis...
...gone to the zoo during that two-week period, he would have thrown in what he knew about animals. If he looked at a picture magazine or listened to a radio serial during that time, he might have used words that would not otherwise occur to him. The modern kid uses a lot of words picked up from movies, comic books and newspapers, says Dr. Seashore. He estimates that the average kid starting school can identify about 17,000 basic words (e.g., loyal), and from them derive the meaning of about 6,000 more words e.g., loyalist...