Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less helpful are such aids as the Milton Bradley Co.'s Modern Mathematics Kindergarten Kit, a motley of geometric shapes, animal cutouts and numbers in felt ($3). Kenworthy Educational Service, Inc. has put out Programmed Reading Aids, a series with ten flip cards of words ($2.50), perception cards showing figures, domino patterns and numbers ($1), and such 65? workbooks as I Learn to Read and Primary Count and Color. More informative for parents is a record-booklet package, Teaching Jonny's Sister to Read ($4.95), in which Cambridge Housewife Henny Wenkart instructs her 4½-year-old daughter...
This was basically the description that Greenglass gave in his impounded testimony. Whether or not such knowledge was vital to Russian development of the bomb remains speculative. In any case, the same general principles are used in modern tactical atomic weapons, even though engineering refinements have gone drastically beyond the crude "Fat Man" version of 21 years...
...fame seems to have lingered longest in the Middle East and Pakistan, where it has since won him a dozen commissions. "They want something they can identify with, not just a crate," says Stone. "The problem is to be inspired by their style and do a completely modern building...
While Stone has only begun to put pencil to paper, he intends that the project will combine the grace and delights of Mogul architecture with all the benefits of modern technology. Says Stone: "It is the dream of every architect to do a project of this scope. It hasn't happened more than half a dozen times in history...
...already been won. Undaunted, he set out to become the chronicler of the cavalryman in action, and Cody obligingly let him use the cowboys and Indians in his Wild West show as models. The results may have been at times secondhand-and his dust-raising dramas clearly anticipate the modern Western-but such paintings as The Summit Springs Rescue, glorifying Cody's role in a much disputed battle, so impressed another Wild West fancier, Theodore Roosevelt, that he gave Schreyvogel a presidential permit to visit any Army post or Indian reservation...