Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...isolation in which the modern Western world has left the more ancient culture of the East is explicable on several grounds. The interior of China and Tibet is protected by natural barriers of desert and mountain and even at the present day portions of it are forbidden to foreigners. Even in those regions where Westerners have penetrated, the inhabitants are not unnaturally hostile to the strangers who come to disturb their ancestral monuments. Add to this the tremendous difficulties of language and the state of affairs that enabled one civilization to remain practically unknown while another reached a high stage...
...fault of the clergy that these beliefs are not already generally accepted, according to Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman. "They don't wish to disturb older members of their congregations with modern ideas...
...selection occasioned some comment in amusement circles, in as much as Mr. Brown has had no experi ence in amusement enterprises. But if he now knows nothing about amusements, he also knew nothing about leather when he became the U. S. Leather Co. head in 1923. The modern executive is not in frequently superior to and aloof from a detailed knowledge of his industry's routine...
...Gruff soldier with heart of gold and will of iron, brilliant in strategy, steadfast in courage-nothing dandified in his uniform, nothing lily-livered in his perpetual cigar, nothing watered about his liquor-such is, and will be, the popular impression of victorious U. S. Grant, modern biographers to the contrary...
...poet Longfellow gave to Harvard the best years of his life in his professorship of modern languages at the University. He was in the center of Harvard when New England, and Boston in particular, were the last words in the story of American culture, and Harvard was the heart of New England and Boston. It was the name of Longfellow that linked with those of Emerson, Lowell, Holmes and Agassiz to bind an intellectual tradition that is still strong...