Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square miles of China thus far "conquered"' by the Japanese, hundreds of thousands of embattled Chinese peasants keep up today an endless sniping resistance to their conquerors. The daring and resourceful Chinese who are trying to thwart and exhaust the Japanese in this most extensive of modern history's guerrilla campaigns have made some of the most exciting stories of the war. By the nature of the fighting, however, they make them in the dark...
...illustrated lectures on Modern Archeology will be given at 4 o'clock on Thursday, December 1, and Tuesday, December 6, at the Semitic Museum. The lectures will be free of charge and open to the public...
...casting has not yet been completed for the comedy of manners which will be presented in modern dress for the first time in America...
Finley opened the debate with a ten-minute argument in which he emphasized the value of a classical education, which takes an objective view of the whole span of modern events with an eye to classical parallel situations. He also asserted that the classical writers treated of the general phases of human endeavor and that since our modern civilization is based on cold fact, we need the classics as a balance...
...Harvard senior, one of those rare personages who occasionally turn up to confound the "how many steps are there on your front porch see you don't know although you climb them every day" dictum of modern psychologists, recently sat in his room, desperately put to pass the time between 1:45 o'clock and 1:55 o'clock when he could amble off to a class. Idly he eyed the cover of the October 1 Saturday Evening Post, which depicted a night football game; and idly he began to count the yard-lines on the grid-iron there displayed...