Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present traffic board in Cambridge is doing all it can, but control of the situation is probably beyond their ability," City Councilor Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler stated last night. "It seems sensible now to appoint someone who is well trained in modern urban traffic control." She pointed to "a logical craziness in parking legislation" and the need for urban traffic engineering...
Academic Life. Graduating from the American University of Beirut in 1927, he taught math and physics there for two years. Inspired by a gift of Professor Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, he worked for three years to raise enough money to get to Harvard and study under Whitehead himself. After getting his Ph.D., he taught philosophy at Beirut from 1937 to 1945. Said the great Whitehead: "One of those extraordinary individuals who had a kind of air of divinity about...
...Modern game management has put an end to the old blunderbuss days of the early 1900s. With indifferent conservation, the duck population plummeted to about 30 million in the 1930s, threatening an end to the sport. Today's bags are carefully limited and so is the season, which lasts about 2½ months in each area. No hunter comes home with a wagonload of mallard, but most everybody gets a duck dinner, and leaves plenty of birds for next year...
...given unto him a great sword"). Hoover points out that in more than 20 different kinds of disasters and punishments mentioned in Revelation, pestilence does not occur once. St. John, he thinks, "had some other idea in mind" for the red horseman −"the name which we know in modern times as Revolution...
Russian Whist. It took a long international evolution to produce modern bridge, with its beautiful balances between competition and cooperation, system and psychology. The ancestral game of whist, which still survives in English and New England villages, was bridge without bidding: the trump suit was decided on by turning up the last card dealt. Edgar Allan Poe wrote of whist: "Men of the highest order of intellect have been known to take an apparently unaccountable delight in it, while eschewing chess as frivolous." But with no bidding and no exposed hand to guide the players, the game was crude...