Word: modern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Argentina's Five-Year Plan for modern industrialization is running into difficulties because...
...self-deceit, India is merely the world in small, and one more terrible warning to the conscience of the world. India's gravest error, her deepest sin, is rampant in all the world and never so madly so as in those portions of the world which call themselves "modern": the incapacity of those who desire to lead people, whether for power or in the highest of good will, to know, love, fear, respect, or even to imagine, what human beings...
...Miracles: "Modern man, with his thought shaped by scientific investigation, is certain that miracles ... do not happen, Only figuratively can the blind receive their sight, or the lame be made to walk, or the lepers be cleansed. . . . Without a doubt, the need to jettison the miraculous element in the New Testament . . . weakens the reliability of the gospel narratives; and, insofar as Christian teaching has been built upon the power of Jesus to perform miracles, and upon the miracles associated with His birth and death, it calls for a drastic refashioning of such teaching...
Said grey, spindly Director Edmund W. Sinnott: "Science is modern, popular and dominant. It needs no special pleaders.... It cannot help being tempted to a certain arrogance and a conviction that the keys of truth are in its hands alone. [But] logic and reason are no monopoly of science. . . . Science regards a human being not as a soul which may be saved or lost but as an exquisitely constructed physicochemical mechanism. ... To many thoughtful minds the gains of science are secondary and superficial things...
...black arts. "Sheff" taught the first U.S. courses in geology, paleontology, physiological chemistry, established the nation's first agricultural experiment station. It was the first U.S. school to provide a post-graduate course for the Ph.D. degree. Then crusty old Elias Loomis pioneered in devising the basis for modern weather maps and Bertram Boltwood discovered ionium. Sheffield's most famous teacher: Josiah Willard Gibbs, the top mathematical physicist of his day, who laid down the laws which form the basis for modern thermodynamics...