Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to measure at least part way up to such an example, English editors have placed unsavory divorces on their Irish forbidden list, along with ads or news stories on football pools, sex crimes, abortion and contraception. Venereal disease has not been mentioned in the Irish press in modern memory, and artificial insemination of barnyard animals is primly reduced to initials-A.I.-from Ballyshannon to Bantry...
...ornate columns to Louis XIV. At the start of the 19th century an English sea captain sent home a second load of marble loot. It now ornaments the grounds at Windsor Castle. The winds blew and the dunes again covered what was left, until digging began in earnest in modern times...
...first radars of World War II could detect invading aircraft (giving the R.A.F. a big advantage in the Battle of Britain), but they were not much good on smaller targets. Modern radar is vastly more sophisticated, and a wondrous new refinement is an eye developed by the Army Signal Corps in collaboration with Hazeltine Corp. It can stare through darkness or fog at a terrain of tangled scrub and tell if a man is crawling through it two miles away; it can look at a walking human six miles away and tell whether its target is male or female...
...each weekday, two Cadillacs purr up to the front and rear doors of the modern, lawn-surrounded factory of the Kaynar Corp. in Los Angeles. Brainy, lightly muscled Kenneth Reiner. 43, Kaynar's president, gets out at the rear door. Brawny (5 ft. 8 in.. 165 Ibs.), outgoing Frank Klaus, 44, vice president and treasurer, gets out at the front. Each is careful not to meet the other...
...best of modern mysteries equal or outrank the run-of-the-rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...