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Word: modernizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lorenz described the apartment as relatively well-off and modern. There was a toilet and running water, although no hot water. During the winter, a log heater warms the apartment...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Harvard's 'Experimenters' Taken into Foreign Homes | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

Eisenhower said little to bring out the necessity of new financial sacrifices for a modern defense set-up. This was probably his greater error, for while Americans may accept the fact of Russia's lead, they may think his proposals sufficient without the additional spending to make them work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sacrifice for Action | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...little island of higher mathematics and particle physics these men form a school without peer in the entire world. They have written a large part of the history of modern mathematical and physical thought...

Author: By Fredrick W. Byron jr., | Title: The Institute: Frontier of Learning | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...wait in here, I'll be back in a minute," she said, showing me into a room through a purple door. The room held a curious assortment of decoration: an oriental rug, a Japanese figure lamp, a serapecovered chair, and flower prints surrounded a green modern couch half circling a round, low table on which an alligator and a black jaguar crouched...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Mrs. Star | 11/8/1957 | See Source »

...another modern green couch; she took my hand and gazed intently into my palm. Mrs. Star looked about fifty-five. Her combed-backed black hair, large brown eyes and short breadth indicated gypsy relatives. She began...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Mrs. Star | 11/8/1957 | See Source »

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