Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burgomaster and aldermen got the idea last year when they went to see a modern sculpture show in The Netherlands' Arnhem (pop. 103,666) and came away determined to beat the Dutch. They vowed that it would be "necessary to the renown of Antwerp to do better than is done elsewhere...
Naturally enough, the 3-ft. genius' favorite painter is Picasso, but his father tries to keep him away from museums ("I don't want him to be influenced"). At school the boy is not considered much of a painter, though he has won local renown as a poet with such lines as these...
...Langmuir announced his retirement as associate director of G.E.'s famed lab. Among his achievements he could count a 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (the first won by a U.S. industrial chemist), awards and honors from many top-drawer scientific organizations, an impressive list of discoveries, and international renown...