Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...service flyer could buy a DC-3 for $25,000), aviation had finally come of age. The airplane had long been a versatile beast of burden in roadless Alaska. But as late as 1939 northern flying had been a primitive business with no fields capable of accommodating a modern transport, no directional radio navigation aids, little radio communication...
...pretend to be an artist or a judge of art, but I am of the opinion that so-called modern art is merely the vaporings of half-baked, lazy people. An artistic production is one which shows infinite ability for taking pains and if any of these so-called modern paintings show any such infinite ability, I am very much mistaken...
...last week medicos were flabbergasted by a new air theory so highly inflated that it promised to be either one of modern medicine's most soaring sensations -or one of its biggest busts. A group of scientific zealots announced that they had isolated an atmospheric substance (or group of substances-they weren't sure which) that they claim, has a definite effect on disease...
...week, in a game that settled the white man's 1947 championship, the casualties were almost too minor to mention -one cracked lip, one barked shin. Civilization and 300 years had changed the game, but it still could not be called sissy. To avoid broken bones and bruises, modern players wear armor: forearm pads, shoulder pads, heavy-duty gloves, a helmet. And they have made a science of self-defense...
...decided to learn something of the modern world. There was something abroad which we Americans couldn't or wouldn't understand. But unless we made some attempt to realize that everyone in the world isn't American, and that not everything American is good, we'd all perish together, and in this 20th Century...