Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most prevalent and firmly held in those communities and nations which have a highly developed system of industry and commerce as their foundation, but it is also true that only in such communities and nations can the average citizen attain the degree of individual comfort, education and culture which modern civilization is coming to demand...
Hohner of Hohner. "The expansion of the harmonica industry in modern imes has been in closely related ratio to be frequency and magnitude of modern wars." Thus postulated, at Manhattan ast week, Herr Doktor Will Hohner, on of him who founded the famed M. Hohner Harmonica Co. in 1856. Herr Doktor Hohner, who had just landed from he liner Berlin, continued: "Our factories at Trossingen in the Black Forest still employ twice as many workers as before he World War. . . . The Boer War was chief cause operating to produce the introduction of the harmonica into South Africa. . . . Japan might still...
...condition among the elite if the plans of A. P. Moore, former U. S. Ambassador to Spain, are realized. The Hearst tabloids in New York, and Boston have passed into the hands of the ex-Ambassador, and with them he intends to show the true possibilities of that most modern type of journalism. The use of pictures to give the news of the day has no essential disadvantage, and under a management that would eliminate the stress now laid by them on sordid and sensational items they can be of real value to the thinking public, according to Mr. Moore...
...entire argument reduces itself to the question of why Mussolini wants this country. Why does he place the power of a modern Roman Empire variety before the ideals of a League of Nations." It seems plain that he laughs at the League because he feels secure of the united Italy behind him. If he is dreaming of building up a second Roman Empire, starting with Tyrol, he might well continue with Corsica and Savoy. He justifies his annexations of Tyrol by saying that the Brenner Pass is the natural boundary between Italy and Austria and the logical place to separate...
...commanding problem of liberal education in America," Dean Holmes stated, "is the problem of unifying secondary education and collegiate education without denying the essential characters and modern development of either, To find a remedy for the existing situation is a difficult problem. The system of concentration and distribution, now used here at Harvard, with general examinations at the final stages of progress in the subjects of concentration might be tried in the preparatory schools, and prove the solution to the problem. There must be, however, cooperation with the colleges, and one college must take the lead in starting...