Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "The modern relationships of government and industry are a tangled mass of economic and social problems. They are neither abstract propositions nor statistics. They are very human things. They can make for the happiness of every home in our country...
...Modern and Beacon-"Uncle Tom's Cabin"-This caused a war 68 years ago. There's no telling what may happen with movietones...
High upon a Sydney eminence is the new St. Mary's Cathedral, costing ?700,000 ($3,400,000). This modern pile was dedicated on the Sunday before the opening of the congress...
...science is his use of x-rays to describe and measure the atoms and molecules of crystals. As is expected of new B. A. A. S. presidents, Sir William stated his scientific credo: "There are some who think that science is inhuman. They speak as though students of modern science would destroy reverence and faith. I do not know how that can be said of the student who stands daily in the presence of what seems to him to be the Infinite. Science is not setting forth to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul together." In this...
...address. He dwelt much more on craftsmanship and science. British scientists are less aware of industry's needs than are their U. S. colleagues. The academic and the workaday are more separate there than here. Hence Sir William was obliged to exhort: "The plain truth is that modern craftsmanship, with all its noise and ugliness, is giving food, clothing, warmth and interest to millions who otherwise must die. In all honesty let us recognize that we live on craftsmanship in its modern form." The motor, aviation; chemical, electrical industries all need and use scientific research. But British factories...