Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James E. Maher, who wanted to return to Ireland but hated to leave the modern American comforts of his seven-room, prefabricated house in Pinehurst, N.C., solved the problem by knocking it down, packing it into 59 giant crates, and shipping it off to Ireland ahead of him. ¶ Annoyed at her gentleman friend, Evelyn Panagakis, 31, of Peterborough, N.H. got into a car, and made three runs on his parked automobile, smashing in the front, side and rear...
Like many a Broadway and Hollywood contemporary, Actor Kawarasaki had a tickling Marxian social conscience. He organized a new Kabuki troupe called the Zenshinza (Forward-Looking Theater), set up shop in a sleek, modern playhouse outside Tokyo, defied tradition by hiring women actors to play female parts and began mixing Western dramas with the Japanese classics. When V-J brought democracy officially to Japan, Democrat Kawarasaki was ready with a full-fledged production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME...
...scattered among 176 tribes from Assam in the northeast to Madras in the deep south. One-fifth of India's first settlers live in the hillside jungles, many still dress in leaves, hunt with bow and arrows. The other four-fifths, touched by government, missionaries and modern industrialism, have found that civilization can be as ruthless as the man-eating tigers around their native villages. Cut off from their primitive tribal customs, most adibasis have sunk to the level of coolies...
Unfortunately, says Einstein, the coercion has not lessened since he was a student. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail...
...Bingham's attitude towards polofits into the current pattern of such monstrosities as the anti fox-hunting bill, recently introduced and narrowly defeated in England. The stout modern attitude seems to be: since I can't tell a martingale from a halter, I don't see why anyone else should be able to or want to. In our triumphal march towards socialism there are alternatives: lovel everyone down to the common man and play polo. Would anyone care to exchange some old spurs for a pair of sneakers? Black Beauty