Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fivefold. After the operation, Dr. Kundsin took smears from the young resident's nose and throat. The cultures proved him to be a fertile carrier of Staphylococcus aureus-and some strains of staph are the deadliest bacteria now plaguing hospitals in the U.S. and all other countries where modern, miracle-drug medicine is practiced...
...Shrew of Aubrey Schwarz is especially fascinating because it has such strident symbolic power. Schwarz borrows his technique from Durer's enamel engravings, but the daring placement of the shrew, the uncanny emphasis on its very white eye belongs to the modern period. Without losing its descriptive accuracy, The Shrew is designed as a harrowing picture; the animal shown is an image of horrid, unfathomable evil...
Construction of the new University Health Center will begin late this Spring after 25 years of discussion without action. "We have needed modern facilities since at least 1924," Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, commented, "but only recently have sufficient funds become available...
...Linnean Street is not alone in his protest against modern morals. His finely phrased complaints strike at the heart of what is no small problem on the modern American scene. But articulate observers have seldom been more than articulate, and idealists and social reformers meet complete indifference far more often than opposition. The janitor is no exception. His protests are voiced again and again to various passers-by, and met with a smile, a smirk, a subdued laugh...
...Spring term, C. Crane Brinton, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will offer another television course, "A Study of Revolutions...