Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More U.S. economic aid is important even for its own sake. The basic problems of food, education, and health would exist whether or not there were a threat from China, for the people in underdeveloped nations are determined to come abreast of the twentieth century. Anti-Communism is not sufficient; a positive, sincere approach to economic and human problems is needed in the form of such specific programs as India's village development plan...
...Boston Symphony, conducted by Charles Munch, made its Manhattan debut this season with Mario Peragallo's Violin Concerto. The work, by Italy's rising Composer Peragallo (44), won a first prize in Rome's Twentieth-Century Music conference last spring. A slick combination of atonal technique and Puccini-like melody, it kept Violinist Joseph Fuch's fingers flying, pleased musical conservatives more than the radicals...
...black that it cannot use these additional funds. But it is difficult to imagine another department of the University that could better spend the money now allocated to it. It is even more serious to consider jeopardizing the worth of a $650,000 scholarship program to save one-twentieth of that amount...
With the advent of the twentieth century, Beck Hall's chandeliers soon began to lose their brilliance. A portion of the ground floor was even given over to "a school for teaching young women the art of riding on a bicycle." Eventually, construction of Claverly in 1893 and other later dormitories forced this original Gold Coast mansion to surrender its social prominence to Mt. Auburn Street. It was torn down...
Villagers who might have watched the twentieth century pass by are now eagerly changing their feudal conditions. Farmers learn to plant rice in rows, rather than scatter it with no plan. Some villages begin cooperative stores and libraries...