Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utilizing the principles of science, Theremin believes to have solved some of the most important problems of the modern art of music...
...thesis is brilliant, many thoughtful readers will not find themselves in agreement with his main philosophical tenets nor will they be inclined to applaud some of his own political prejudices. M. Benda is still searching for eternal verities, abstract justice, and absolute good dissociated from its material embodiment. The modern philosopher who regards all values in a relative light is condemned as a renegade and a disgrace to his high profession. Mr. Benda is finally imbued with a thoroughly anti-Teutonic point of view. Dispassionate modern history can scarcely be expected to accept so categorical a statement, for instance...
This narrative poem has an indescribable esprit which savors of an epic tempered by modern interpretation. If one can get through the rather vague invocation, the remainder of the poem really pulls one on. Stephen Benet has charmingly combined a uniquely modern and sincere patriotism with an equally rare sense of proportion. Yet throughout the course of events which he vividly depicts--here in minute detail--there is sweeping epic style--and here again with a touch of human sympathy--one finds that justice has been a main chord. South and North, each has its turn--probably the reason both...
Fourteen lieutenants of the United States Navy are stationed at the Engineering School for one year of advanced study in communication engineering, one of the most important subjects in modern naval operations, according to Professor G. W. Pierce '01, director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, with whom the naval officers are studying. The Navy Department sends selected graduates of Annapolis to the best civil institutions for concentration in certain fields of advanced study after their first six year cruise, and one year of post-graduate work in the Naval Academy...
...publications include the Oxford Book of Latin verse, 1912. He is the author of numerous books of criticism, and the editor of several editions of verse, both classical and modern. At one time he was editor of the Journal of Philology...