Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheel-Shaped City. In Changchun itself-the modern, wheel-shaped city of green trees and creamy buildings which the Japs built as a capital for puppet Manchukuo-the sturdy Manchu citizenry were doing their best to remain calm. During the months of cowboy-&-Indian type warfare around Changchun, civilians could (and many did) pile on to trains heading south toward Peiping. But, with the rails cut, civilians were stuck...
...custom dies hard in England. To Kingsteignton's rescue came Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, who invited the village's ram-roast committee to the deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned to carry on its ancient rite this week. But Kingsteigntonians were still rankled by the irreverent crack of a Communist M.P. during Rayner's plea. The Commie sneered that this was "one of those heathen customs the Conservative Party wants to retain...
...chief signs of modern life are Peggy's four telephones, a few motorboats, movies in the community hall on Thursday nights and the electric lights. There is a one-room school (with nine students) and a general store...
...inherently original venture.. Like all pioneer endeavors it must experience trial-and-error evolution. The aim at Harvard is to provide all students "as citizens and heirs of a joint culture . . . a common core of knowledge": the aim is further to do this within the framework of modern needs for specialized training. Skeptics who have doubted that the Report's golden intentions can find effective translation into the College organism and outright ill-wishers who fear "educational tyranny" will unearth only fleeting surface encouragements--little in substance--for their case in the results of the Student Council's April...
...something for the people as people, restoring to them a belief in themselves and in the possibilities of social action. There is a new kind of man in America, the union man. He is the forecast of our future. Of this Boyer is sure. He is sure that the modern union movement means a sea change in the American collective personality...