Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned to making muskets. He got the idea of interchangeable parts. Before Whitney, each part of each factory product was different from its fellow on another product, even from the same shop. But every Whitney trigger fitted every Whitney gun. This principle of interchangeable parts became the basis of modern industry...
...elements of a money maker. He has the exciting dancing of Kathryn Lee. He has the songs of Jimmy McHugh which, if they remind you that you have heard them somewhere before, still prompt you to want to hear them again. That is saying a lot for modern show tunes. He has Irene Rich for the female lead. He has a million lovely girls and two million sponge rubber falsies. Most important, he has two weeks in Boston. In this time he can throw away most of the story, cut the love interest, further undress his girlies, put the spectacles...
...contact with the outside world can only distort the Cadet's outlook to the point of uselessness, as far as dealing with ordinary mortals is concerned. Many men who served in the last war came away with the feeling that West Pointer's were little more than a modern-day version of the Prussian military caste, unadaptable to circumstances and unable to deal with personnel...
...novel has three interweaving plots. Christian Diestl is an Austrian would-be superman who tolerates his Nazi party comrades since they are useful for world conquest; Michael Whitacre is a Broadway character worried about the sordid emptiness of his life; Noah Ackerman is a young Jewish boy confused by modern life but determined to burst through to personal fulfillment...
...Modern Tempo. In Portland, Ore., Frank A. Staeger, questioned for holding up traffic, explained to police that he had fallen asleep while waiting for the light to change...