Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect of deafening the world to its opportunities. To the real agricultural scientists, close to the soil and its sciences, such pessimism sounds silly or worse. Every main article of the Neo-Malthusian creed, they say, is either false or distorted or unprovable. They are sure that the modern world has both the soil and the scientific knowledge to feed, and feed well, twice as many people as are living today. By the time population has increased that much, man may (and probably will) have discovered new ways of increasing his food supply...
...soil scientists say that it simply is not true that land is static. Virgin soils vary widely in fertility and character, but once under cultivation they are subject to the will of modern...
Miss Karasz succeeds in staying serene even when her children call her work "bad modern." Her house is completely bare of wallpaper except for her twelve-year-old son's room, which is papered with one of her designs. "We had to change that paper three times," she recalls, "before he was satisfied...
...applying them." Dr. Pollitzer, who works for U.N.'s World Health Organization, last week started work in the University of California's George Williams Hooper Foundation in San Francisco, where he will spend his three months' leave from China. The foundation developed many of the modern techniques used against the plague, is trying to find still better ones...
There's a little old Calvinist in the woodpile, too. One reason why modern man has troubles with his emotions, said University of Illinois Psychiatrist Richard L. Jenkins, stems from the Protestant Reformation, "which increased the number and severity of the moral taboos and denied the certainty of forgiveness through the confessional and penance." A man whose "halo is too tight," said Dr. Jenkins, suffers from too many inhibitions, and may wind up in a doctor's office with an obscure headache...