Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question was as complex as India's linguistic makeup. Its solution was basic to the building of a modern cohesive state out of disparate parts. The nation of Gandhi and Nehru has no majority tongue. Some 41% of its people speak Hindi. Another 14% speak Marathi, Gujarati, Kashmiri and Punjabi-all closely related to Hindi. Some 32% speak Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Kannada and Assamese. The remaining 13% speak miscellaneous dialects...
...used to get ample iodine in seafood and in vegetables grown in iodine-bearing soils. Nowadays much produce is shipped to the coasts from iodine-poor areas. In some places iodine is found in natural salt deposits as an "impurity." Old-fashioned refining methods left the iodine in, but modern, high-temperature processes have been taking...
About one-third of all U.S. table salt is now iodized, but many housewives in iodine-poor areas suspect iodized salt (clearly labeled, under federal regulations) of being "medicated." Millions more do not know that they, and more particularly their children, cannot be healthy without iodine-which modern technology first took out of their salt, and is now able to put back...
...could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine in them. California cautiously separated the conservative sheep from the modern goats, awarded two sets of prizes. First prize (conservative) went to 31-year-old Chet Engle for his satirical self-portrait Tarquin. First prize (modern) went to 39-year-old Sueo Serisawa, for his portrait of his wife, Mary 1949. (Said Serisawa, who won honorable mention in last year...
...build a materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above the" terrors and sor rows of modern life as well as above its passing satisfactions...