Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geometry. It began radiating officially some 230 years ago-a development from guilds of masons who built England's cathedrals. In 1717, guildsmen got together for a feast in the Goose & Gridiron tavern in London and the modern Masonic fraternity was born...
Still had stumbled upon a crude version of the modern concept of antibodies. The body's own drugs, he thought, were concentrated in the blood; therefore, a full supply of blood to the whole system was necessary to health. Dr. Still preached that manipulation of the spine, muscles and joints, to preserve a normal blood flow, could prevent or cure practically any ailment...
...short, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, He is the very model of a modern Major-General...
...Ohio's Akron-Canton airport one day this week stood a bright yellow, converted C87 that was once used by General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the U.S. Marines. Waiting for the take-off was a tall, sad-eyed man who was indeed the very model of a modern full-blown general, or admiral-or at least something mineral. His milky-blue uniform with brass buttons and bright gold stars & bars suggested considerable rank, if an indeterminate branch of service. But there was nothing indeterminate about the man inside the uniform. He was Samuel Floyd Keener, 61, who owns...
Died. Walt Kuhn, 68, "the Rembrandt of Show Business," painter of vaudeville and circus subjects (The Blue Clown); after long illness; in White Plains, N. Y. A champion of modern art ("Good painters are never intellectuals; they're simply people with one-track minds"), Kuhn helped run the famed 1913 Armory Show, which introduced the U.S. to Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse...