Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell. But in half a century of blissful self-delusion he has failed to perceive that the family automobile is the most monstrous engine...
...behind champagne and potted palms. Those were the days when agreement between nations was possible. Now that diplomacy has become a matter of political philosophies which by definition cannot agree with each other, both the conferences and the parties have assumed the unreal air of a costume play in modern dress...
Claiming that the caste system was not a part of modern India, he pointed out that former "untouchables" sit side by side with Jawarharlal Nehru, who belongs to the highest caste, in the Ministry of State...
Thus the Law School entered its modern...
...Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory is a product of war research in problems of mechanical noises and their effect on personnel. It was established in 1940, at which time the basement of Memorial Hall was altered to make an efficient and ultra-modern headquarters. Later, when the Social Relations Department and the Department of Psychology split up, it seemed only logical, in view of the close tieup between psychology and acoustics, to turn over a portion of the Laboratory to Psychology and the shift was made...