Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...model community; that he is interested enough in public education to have become a regent of the University of Wisconsin, where one of his four boys was educated (two went to Yale, one to M. I. T.); that it is and has been his desire to provide modern comforts to country people...
...months ago Eleutherios Venizelos, scholar, statesman, translator into modern Greek of an historical opus by Thucydides (TIME, March 22, 1926), deserted the pleasant island of Crete where he was born, and journeyed to Athens...
From elaborate exhibits in museum and department store to window displays in cheap furniture shops, "modern decorative art" has been thrust at last upon the U. S. public. Justification is now undertaken by Paul Frankl, enthusiastic creator of skyscraper dressing tables, who traces origins in Austria, Germany, and, above all, Paris, where dressmakers felt the need of new backgrounds for their simple (but oh so intricate) knee-length frocks. In a spirit of cooperation, the new decorator therefore scraps everything old (the pyramids excepted), and matches modern life with "simple rhythmic combinations of masses," and sharp color contrasts, rather than...
Author Frankl does not prove that "simplicity" does match modern life. Nor does he recognize that his "simplicity" is rather the affectation of simplicity-witness a creation entitled "lady's whimsical desk built like a puzzle...
...retirement age (64). A Texan, he entered the Navy as an Annapolis plebe in 1881. He fought at Santiago; rounded the world on the fleet cruise ordered by President Roosevelt; helped adapt the airplane, radio, torpedo, depth mine, smoke screen to Navy uses. In 1915 he worked out the modern technique of destroyer units; in 1921 he was an organizer and the first commandant of the U. S. battle fleet. From 1923 to 1927 he was Chief of Naval operations, the Navy's highest post, now held by Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes...