Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modern skeptics, of course, paid no attention. But the great historian, Plutarch, would not have failed to record it as an event possibly of grave significance to the state...
...women. Last week these connoisseurs were utterly flabbergasted when they learned that Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, D. S. O., who was universally regarded in Andover as "a gentleman, and by gad a sportsman, Sir!" is in fact a transvestite? one of the most remarkable of modern times...
...legend of a Prince that sought his lady love in a tall tower east of the sun and west of the moon. At the present time there are still many young people who are searching for an ideal that seems to be just as securely hidden. The modern youth movement since the war has been attempting to turn the world upside down to find its princess of liberty, and there is every indication that she too is hiding in that ancient stone tower. At any rate, the governments of Europe especially are tiring of this excitement, so the Communistic party...
...mostly all selling, isn't it?" This was the comment of one senior recently when I suggested the Insurance business as a field which offers opportunities. This is one of the illusions which is more or less prevalent and which is based on lack of acquaintance with modern business...
...meeting on Saturday centered around the subject of "Education and Its Relation to Modern Business," and was discussed by outstanding figures of the scholastic and professional worlds. Professor C. F. Taeusch of the Graduate School of Business Administration opened the morning meeting at 10.30 o'clock in Agassiz Houser Radcliffe College, with a critical analysis of "Ethics and Business." He was followed by A. V. Shaw, senior partner of Shaw, Loomis, and Sayles, who was informative and helpful on "The Teacher's Personal Investment Problem...