Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S editors decided to do a cover story on the fight against cancer, they were confronted with any number of first-rate men and institutions from which to select their cover subject. Manhattan's Memorial Hospital was chosen because it offered a complete cross-section of modern cancer research, and its director, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, was a leading symbol of this effort...
...been a hotshot ever since he went into the business. At 25, he was editor of Screen Guide; at 27, he ran Click up from a big circulation slump to the million mark. (Later, after Nichols joined the Army, Click went bust.) At Dell Publishing Co., Nichols has boosted Modern Screen to a peak circulation (1,164,476) and a peak revenue...
Thus last week, in typical fashion, the U.S. welcomed one of the most extraordinary men of modern times. Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary, theologian, organist, interpreter of Bach's music, and one of the world's great humanitarians, has a life of achievement behind him which few contemporary men can equal. Throughout the civilized world he is also quietly honored as few are honored in their lifetime-for what...
Such academic lackeydom, says Sir Walter, has reduced the universities to imposing islands of bewilderment in a sea of confusion. A leading symptom of bewilderment: at least three educational traditions are battling for the soul of the modern university, the classical-Christian, the liberal-humanistic, and the technological-democratic...
...years old. The story of the frightful condition of these "poor blots," as Charles Lamb called them, and of the century-long legal fight to rescue them, is told in England's Climbing-Boys, a piece of careful, heart-wrenching research into one of the foulest flues of modern social history...