Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty years of soda business apparently have convinced the owners of Billings & Stover, oldest pharmacy in the Square, that these modern fads have no future. Destruction of the marble fountain in the Massachusetts Avenue drugstore has been completed this week to make way for an expanding prescription department...
...weakness. In all the islands there are only 75 fighter planes -many obsolete or obsolescent. The Army has no night fighters, the Navy only a handful. Half the radar stations are useless because there are not enough men to operate them. There are only two antiaircraft battalions operating with modern (radar) fire control near Pearl Harbor...
...translation of the Psalms is being published in the U.S. next week. Modern readers will miss the drums and tramplings of the King James version-but the simple, matter-of-fact English of Britain's witty, whodunit-writing Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (The Psalms, Sheed & Ward, $2) gives some of David's songs a sharp new applicability. Excerpt (Psalm...
...author $20,000 and the publicity tub-thumping that is sure to go with it. The business, if not the literary, reasons for its selection seem fairly obvious. It is an "inside" novel about Japan from 1938 to 1945, and it has a Japanese heroine who is both "modern" and curvy...
...Youth reads like a congestion of rubbery, raw material. Dostoevsky himself recognized this and argued that it was hard to give "artistic finish" to characters who were struggling in transition-i.e., in 19th Century Russia's changeover from a land of seigneurs and serfs to a modern, industrially minded nation, distinguished (in Dostoevsky's opinion) by "general lawlessness and chaos...