Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...republic. For the past four years it has also been the only Communist-dominated state west of the Iron Curtain. Surrounded by Italy, San Marino's fortress, La Rocca, overlooking the Adriatic, towers above the grey stone face of Mount Titano (145 miles north of Rome). By modern standards, La Rocca's massive, crumbling grey walls are not much of a bastion, but last week San Marino's Communists held the fort...
...Keith Chalmers thought so. As bandaged students went back to class, alumni and friends across the U.S. were writing and wiring offers to help. At week's end, Kenyon trustees voted to conduct a million-dollar drive to duplicate the old building, using the old stones, with a modern, fireproof interior...
...Young of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide stared moodily out the window-and saw a Negro hovel cave in. Rushing from his office, he got pictures, a story and a bitter editorial that shocked Norfolk's officials into action. That was in 1933. Now Norfolk has four modern Negro housing developments, and Editor Young heads the Negro housing advisory commission...
...studying painting at a community center in West End Boston. Since then he has kept at his art steadily, selling no paintings at first, indifferent to poverty. In 1942, he was jarred from an oilstove and breadcrumb existence by painting Curator Dorothy Miller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. She hung 13 of his paintings in a show of American artists, and the museum bought two of them for its permanent collection...
...Friday such subjects as: educational institutions' adjustment to progress, successful classroom practices, the responsibility of social education for the teaching of human relations, the implications of atomic energy for social education, and the implications of modern penology for social education will be reviewed...