Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in America's Needs and Resources: A New Survey, a Twentieth Century Fund research staff headed by Economist J. Frederic Dewhurst issued a 1,148-page statistical description of the present economy, plus a projection of what the U.S. would be like five years hence. Dewhurst's key prediction, on the assumption that U.S. peace arid prosperity will continue, is that 1960's gross national product will be $413.5 billion, up 29% from 1950, 16% from 1954. The U.S., with less than 7% of the world's population, already produces one-third...
...more modern policy replaced the old goals when present curator Charles E. Kuhn took over in 1932 and proceeded to remove a number of the permanently installed historical plaster casts in favor of original contemporary works and temporary twentieth century exhibitions. Today the museum's collection of modern German painting and Bauhaus architecture and design are considered the best of their kind outside Germany itself...
...English Department will offer for the first time English 163a and 163b, Twentieth Century Poetry, for which no instructor has been named, and English Yb, Playwriting, to be given by Robert H. Chapman, assistant professor of English...
Taking sharp exception with Van Wyck Brooks, V. L. Parrington and the New Deal critics led by Henry Steel Commager, the author contends, contrary to these critics, that early twentieth century novelists did pay homage to the myth often in spite of themselves...
More than one reader will undoubtedly question the extent to which he has applied his thesis to the early twentieth century class. His implications are perhaps too broad. Yet even for those who dissent, Lynn's insights into an age should make his work profitable reading for any student of American social history...