Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result of the stimulus imparted by the war, Cambridge University is contemplating changes which may vary to a great extent the whole system of modern training in English-speaking universities and make provisions for a broader basis for liberal education...
...given by Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Mr. Roosevelt's talk will include a description of the organization of the Navy Department and an explanation of the part played by navies in modern warfare. He will also comment upon the different kinds of naval craft and show the particular field covered by each...
...peace has been made a daily necessity by war-time needs. Rivalry for the supremacy of the air is a forceful incentive to make machines in greater numbers and each one superior to previous aircraft. Bombing, reconnaissance and duelling have developed the speed, the capacity and range of modern aircraft. For the present, such progress is immediately turned to war uses, but in the future it will become a source of profit for a peaceful world. Although the destructive side of the present conflict seems most apparent, yet the constructive is ever noticeable...
...organ recitals, open to the public, which are being given in turn at Appleton Chapel, Andover Chapel and at St. John's Memorial Chapel, will be given this evening at 8.15 o'clock in St. John's Memorial Chapel on Brattle street. A program of classical and modern music will be presented by Mr. Kenneth Shaw Usher, organist and director of music at Mt. Vernon Church, Boston, assisted by Mr. George E. Hills, tenor...
...months of war, are only beginning to erect the necessary plants, and it will be many more months before they can produce anything. Meanwhile, a large army of chemists must be employed in developing and improving the processes to be used in the production of the essential ingredients of modern high explosives. Think of another problem, or group of problems -- those involved in the practice of gas warfare. The use of poisonous gases by the Germans came as a surprise, but the use, or abuse, of course, had to be met. The first thing to do was to develop...