Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union will not pay their Governor but $4,000 a year! A State with a population well over ten million will not pay their Governor as large a salary as the Federal Government pays their representatives to Congress! The State of Texas will not reorganize their Supreme Court into modern form! . . . This situation is ridiculous...
...manifesto to the press. "Taking the industry as a whole it requires a far more active co-operative organization so that the skill of the operatives, the natural advantages of the county of Lancashire and its inherited opportunities in reputation and market may be used to the utmost under modern conditions...
Sherwood Anderson, storyteller, spoke on "The Newspaper and the Modern Age," explained he had become a small-town editor (Democrat and Smyth County News in Marion, Va.) because life was dull and vulgar in the Modern Age. "Newspaper writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will...
...trapezoidal piece of Manhattan Island, 200 feet in shortest dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the dream will rise, garnished in every one of its 65 stories with the glories of modern French art and architecture. There is even a whisper that its walls may be of glass...
...times earnings. The maxim now says "15 times earnings." This is known as Raskob's Rule, because one day in March 1928, John Jacob Raskob, then finance director of General Motors, walked up a gangplank on his way to Europe and remarked that 15-times was a proper modern ratio-that General Motors ought to have been selling at that time...