Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the founding of Agro-Joint in 1924 up to the present year, it has loaned out more than $3,000,000 to Jewish farmers in Soviet Russia and spent more than $400,000 in educating them in modern agricultural methods. The new subscription which was announced by Philanthropist Rosenwald, last week, will so broaden the work of Agro-Joint that it will merge into a new corporation to be founded for Jewish land settlement in Russia...
...village. . . . The Red Army, more than any other in the world, is aiming toward the goal of a volunteer militia, in which the entire nation will participate. ... In Russian factories the workers are organized in[military training] units . . . and already they are partially outfitted with the most modern 6.5 millimeter repeaters. . . . Men in a textile factory can be turned in three minutes into 18,000 trained and armed troops...
Such behavior may now seem frivolous and insane to all civilized persons; it would have seemed totally incredible to any Greek, at the time when the unknown sculptor made his statue. To the wise Greeks, who lacked the prurient estheticism of modern magazine cover art, the male face or figure was, in its more austere and tempered contours, perhaps a trifle more beautiful than its female counterpart. Either one, when dexterously transmuted into marble, could be regarded with an impersonal regard for its objective beauty. They, the sculptor himself, would not have regarded the performance of Greenville's citizens...
...general, the new plane duplicates the old. It will have slight changes in design: larger fin, larger rudder, larger stabilizer, to insure improved control. Special lights will ease night flying. Like modern automobiles, it will have class as well as comfort: silk mohair upholstery with deep-cushioned chairs...
...Shooting the chutes, riding on the scenic railway and going to the daisy-doser in the amusement park supply the necessary prods to children. The modern newspaper performs this function for the adult of higher mental level. . . . We cannot possibly attend all the murders, fires, earthquakes, unsuccessful trans-atlantic flights and other occurrences of the kind in person. The modern newspaper does this for us and thus saves our consciousness from 'innocuous desuetude...