Word: modern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There is a great deal of obscurity in modern writing which could be cleared up if writers could be forced (only by criticism) to develop a skill in making positive statement . . . whether in verse or in prose. Statement may make art great and ought not to be subject to fashion...
...commission contained one pacifist, the Venerable Percy Hartill, Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent, who registered his disapproval of any kind of modern war in a minority note. But the report itself gave short shrift to his view: "There are those who say that the solution is to counter aggression by love. Ultimately that may be true. But is it applicable to the problem that confronts us? ... A nation that by disarmament rendered itself defenseless would not be assisting in the prevention of aggression, which is the only way to preserve justice in the world...
...patrons in Siberia, Greenland, and even Tibet. Techniques of compounding potions have changed little since the customers wore string ties and bustles, but the products are somewhat different. Patent medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological scrums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students may use the store telephone to schedule a rendezvous, they know better than to ask for benzedrino...
...Promised Land" is indicative of the type of play the HDC has provided, namely, modern works by English and American authors. Among the plays produced by the Club. are included a musical version of "The Taming of the Shrew," a student written opus called "Close-up," for which Henry Fonda was imported for the lead, and the world premiere of Henry James' "Owen Wingrave...
Professor Bridgman, the author of "The Logic of Modern Physics," was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his research in high pressure phenomena. Professor Stouffer has done extensive work in the methods of quantitative sociology for the government and the Army...