Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous spiritual capacity persists in the simplest of minds, despite the almost overwhelming inhibition of the modern materialistic civilization. It is dangerously past the time when mental giants should use all their ingenuity and resources to develop that capacity, and leave for a later date the development of a conscienceless mechanical brain...
...world man lives in, is measured by the motion of the earth. The basic unit of time is a day: one revolution of the earth. But recently the battered old earth has fallen into disrepute as a timekeeper. It is not accurate enough for the needs of modern science. Its spin is gradually slowing down-because of the drag of the tides. It also varies slightly, from day to day, for reasons that science does not understand...
...Roman Catholicism's famed Author-Convert G. K. Chesterton. Under Chesterton's influence, Witcutt renounced his faith. In 1934 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and was assigned to St. Anne's parish, Wappenbury. His sermons and writings (including Catholic Thought and Modern Psychology) were so successful that by last year, at 41, he was regarded as close to the top rank of England's Catholic literati. Then suddenly, last October, he disappeared, and until a month ago stayed out of sight...
...Commission was a huge boost for federal aiders. They cried out more loudly that the educational system was grossly inadequate from top to bottom, and that parts of it were downright rotten. They underscored what the Commission said: that democracy cannot rest on shoddy education, and that a modern state (democratic or not) cannot survive in the twentieth-century world on antique citizen training programs...
Other intercollegiate meets planned for the new term include swimming meets at the Pine Manor, Wellesley Play Days and competition in modern dance and lacrosse. Miss Harriet Clarke gym instructor, also wants to extend Radcliffe extra-mural fencing, and several girls are already attending local fencing club activities...