Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every man must work. You must overcome any tendency or desire to neglect work for other pursuits. In the early days of your history you were famous dancers and it is claimed that the other tribes took their dances from you. But this does not justify excessive indulgence in modern dancing. Conditions are changed. You now have responsibilities which you should remember...
...among the first of Italian nobles to resign from the Catholic Party and enroll in the Fascist, immediately after the "March on Rome" (Oct. 27, 1922). Since then he has enjoyed a career as Deputy and Undersecretary of the Treasury. Particularly has he pleased Il Duce by introducing ultra modern farm machinery and methods on his ancient estates...
...Monday evening at 8 o'clock, also in Repertory Hall. "What Are the Moral Forces in Modern Life?" will be treated by three speakers: Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott and Alfred W. Martin both of New York, and Professor Kirsopp Lake of Harvard. Questions for them are "To what purpose is our material progress? How much and where are our moral and spiritual progress? How can we present the machines of western civilization being the masters...
...from Los Angeles, Calif., they were harvesting barley. Then came hordes of men bearing tons of wood, truck loads of nails, 9,000 barrels of oil, 2,000,000 gallons of water, The wood and nails they made into a grandstand (capacity 17,000) into an exposition building, ultra modern, larger than a city block. The oil and water they sprinkled on the field so that whirling hundreds of propellers would not raise a dust...
...think I understand more clearly than you imagine what you mean. Not long ago I visited an exhibition of modern pictures at Pittsburgh. Almost every European nation was represented. As I looked at those pictures I felt I could see through them into the minds of the nations which had created them...