Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...completely done over according to plans adopted to make it one of the leading airports in the United States. The field, upon which work has already been started, is to be trebled in size, and all the hangars are to be torn down and new, ultra-modern ones built. The Flying Club hangar will be constructed in accordance with the plans for the new airport...
Wednesday always offers a rich and varied list of special lectures, and today three series are being continued during the afternoon and evening. At 4.30 in the Fogg Museum Professor Paull continues his German lectures on Modern Painting in Germany with "Romantic Illustration and Painting". Professor Hazard will discuss "Symbolism in Modern French Poetry" in French at 5 in Emerson D, while tonight at 7.45 the third of the Wertheim lectures will be given in Emerson Hall on the subject, "The Development of Industrial Relations Through Mutual Consent...
...months ago Henry Ford, through his Shanghai representative Thomas Lowry, put substantially this proposition to the Nationalists: "If I pay you in advance the customs dues on Ford cars to be shipped to China during the next five years, will you spend the money to build a modern motor highway between Shanghai and your new capital, Nanking?" (125 miles...
Battle of the Sexes. Fifteen years ago D. W. Griffith presented a picture called The Battle of the Sexes starring Dorothy Gish, now refilmed with modern casts and setting and the original story of a businessman harassed by a professional sweetheart and a tearful wife. Bedroom antics by Don Alvarado and the squirmings on a cushioned floor of Miss Phyllis Haver's stomach supplied an element which kept fingers busy in the box-offices of theatres which showed this picture last week...
...LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS-John Forster, Edited and Annotated by J. W. T. Ley-Doubleday Doran ($10). The standard dignified biography by Dickens' intimate friend is amplified, contradicted, completed, by 600 modern footnotes...