Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President George Romney showed up at a costume party as a knight, accompanied by a fair young maiden whose hand he had just won (see cut). The choice of dress was symbolic. Later, Romney rode forth to battle, astride his trusty Rambler to engage what he considered the modern U.S. dragon: the dinosaur-like big car. For a while, Detroit regarded him as a mere windmill tilter. But as Romney began to smite the dinosaur hip and thigh, TIME chronicled his success round by round, carefully reported the rise of the small car in the U.S. Finally, the Big Three...
Cheating the modern slots is therefore no job for the amateur. It requires professional skills: the crust of the con man, the deftness of the dip, the skill of the safecracker. The professional cheater will buy a machine ($400 and up), take it home to his workshop for devoted scientific study. Disassembling it, he will examine each reel, spring and screw. How best to make his entry? What tool will do the job? What part of the mechanism should be jimmied with what tool? Then comes careful experimentation until at last he discovers the machine's weak spot...
...expires in the Year of our Lord 1961, we . . . humbly pray that steps will be taken to perpetuate the copyrights in some public cultural body . . ." Occasion: the climax of a four-year campaign by Oxford's Dorothy May Alderley, 72, to preserve the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan from modern desecration...
Remove the Handle. Modern science's role in defeating infectious diseases has been greatly exaggerated, says Researcher Dubos. Many of the most terrifying-leprosy, plague, typhus-had all but disappeared from Europe before serums, vaccines and drugs were developed to combat them. Other Dubos debunkings...
Reward for Struggles. The modern American, says Dr. Dubos, is kidding himself about how healthy he is: a man past 45 has little greater life expectancy than had his grandfathers; he has the world's highest living standard, but 10% of his income* goes for medical care. "One out of every four citizens will have to spend at least some months or years in a mental asylum. One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration...