Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much highhanded Nationalist treatment of the local population. Formosans remember him as their best Chinese governor, a man who "made no promises, did not brag and was very strict." When Chiang made him Premier during the Korean war crisis, Chen fired corrupt officials, introduced the government's first modern budget...
...young is the modern science of genetics that some of its grand old men are still alive, and some who gave it form are still only middleaged. Outstanding among them: Professor George Wells Beadle of Caltech, who did most to put modern genetics on its chemical basis. Geneticist Beadle is a mere 54. In his working lifetime he has seen genetics grow from a small, rather baffled specialty into a central, exciting science that is drawing the rapt attention of chemists, physicists, mathematicians, even astronomers, as well as nearly every type of biologist...
...along with Mark Rothko, sparked San Francisco's abstract art revival ("And don't think I wasn't baffled by them at first," she admits). Henry Moore's carved-wood Reclining Woman stood as symbol of her unceasing effort to bring the best of modern art to San Francisco, thus help bridge the gap that had tended to keep the West Coast ten to fifteen years behind trends set in Paris and Manhattan...
...modern America's 'money world' Mr. Parson clings to the lower rungs of the economic ladder. He is often dependent on gratuities and tips to make ends meet. Either through necessity or through too casual adoption of alien moral norms, he has become a poor credit risk; the family is deeply in debt. Mrs. Parson? She's on the nine-to-five shift, earning money to keep the children in nursery school so she can earn more to salt away for their college education-or their clothes...
...hundred ten students have signed up to take or audit Jone's course, only a few more than are enrolled in Tate's English S-163, Aspects of the Impressionistic Novel. His English S-173, Modern Poetry, has 170 students...