Word: modernizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...malicious anecdotes. They like to tell about the time he was told of the Munich settlement, glanced at the documents, drawled "Sure 'nough" and went on about his business. They tell of the time he spoke with quiet pride of his work as a reformer on the first modern U. S. income-tax bill back in 1913, while his audience-national planners, currency tinkerers, spenders-lenders, rural resettlementers, court reorganizers-could hardly keep their faces straight...
...Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that he had decided to work for the restoration of the Hohenzollern and Habsburg dynasties. He wanted to be a modern Warwick-the-King-Maker and work on the European rather than the English field...
...Colonel Crozet been there he would have seen not 32, but some 700 cadets. He would have seen a parade ground of 14 acres, 17 stone school buildings on a lush-green campus, 19 dormitories and residences, modern engineering laboratories, the whole plant valued at $2,500,000. He would have seen the grey-coated cadets marching in review before General George Catlett Marshall, first V. M. I. alumnus to be chosen Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army. He would have heard a Northern President exhorting the students to "live up to your great heritage...
...over the difference between the automobile of today and of 20 years ago. The difference between the motor truck of today and of ten years ago is even more marvelworthy-in amount of truck that can be bought for $1,000, in adaptation to the problems of modern distribution of goods. Compared to a pleasure car the modern truck is intrinsically as beautiful, engineeringly more luxurious, commercially more important. For those who appreciate such qualities Chicago last week had its annual thrill - the truck show, or rather two of them...
...athletics shorten one's life span? Does rowing hurt the heart? These questions have only partly been answered by modern research...