Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tragedy loomed. Two squadrons of British submarines had been on maneuvers in the Irish Sea. Early that morning, plowing through a thick fog and a choppy sea, the semi-obsolete H-47 had been rammed by the large, modern L-12. The H-47 had rolled over, sunk almost instantly...
...brain of an elderly gentleman who died of a heart attack while in swimming, the secret had to do with the dark, strange, warlike people, apparently neither Semitic nor Aryan, who, before Rome was founded, lived on the fertile land between the Tiber and the Alps. The modern world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever since. They worshipped strange gods in weird cypress groves and spoke a tongue which no one, except perhaps the scholar who drowned...
...third man will come along with a virulent poison which is death on mice and there will be no longer any demand for mouse-traps." Pointing to the manner in which phonograph makers adapted their products to the radio, he says: "The pre-radio phonograph is absolutely dead. . . . The modern phonograph industry is alive and flourishing. . . . They [the phonograph makers] did not try to sell mousetraps when mousetraps were out of date...
Pregnant criticism of modern Christianity was expressed by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of Manhattan, president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Said he: "The three tendencies which menace the growth of the Church throughout the world are first, syncretism, or the attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
...young firm. Nevertheless, when Paperman Warren came to Stone & Webster to discuss the contract, the click-click-click of a typewriter could be distinctly heard from a back room. "Ah," approved Mr. Warren, "you have one of these new writing machines. That is what I like to see?a modern, progressive spirit." After Mr. Warren had left, the typewriter was discovered to be Mr. Cartwright, industriously clicking a large key in a rusty lock...