Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deathly civil war last week as Barcelona, the Leftist Capital in which the Rightists claim there are "180 purely military objectives," suffered four big raids within 33 hours. Casualties announced: 200 dead and wounded. Since the original heavy bombing of Barcelona (at which time many observers thought the modern "Douhet Theory" of demoralizing, unrestricted air warfare was being applied for the first time) Rightist Air Force Commander General Alfredo Kindelan has written an article entitled Clipped Wings. In this, General Kindelan boldly grumbled against his superior Generalissimo Francisco Franco, declared that had the Rightist Air Force only been permitted...
Highways. Admiral Horthy, realizing that in Hungary the motorist must horn his way through every village at the speed of its cows and chickens, has slated a concrete speedway program modeled on Adolf Hitler's, tied it to Hungarian Rearmament, since a modern army does not march on its stomach but rides on its tires...
...yearly production was increased from 45 million quintals to 80 million. Since the Italian people continue to eat about 75 million quintals, this meant that Premier Mussolini had won the "battle of the grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927), made Italy-self-sufficient in wheat for the first time in modern history...
...Where modern men itch...
...physics, the pragmatists who move toward reality by wholesome experiment, and the dogmatists who use unwholesome imagination. "For the pragmatic spirit physical research is a process of evolution from what has been established to new experimental knowledge; for him there is no such thing as classical physics or modern physics, but only physics. . . . The physicist of the dogmatic school operates in quite a different manner. . . . He starts out from ideas that have arisen primarily in his own brain, or from arbitrary definitions of relationships between symbols. ... In so far as [his formulae] are found to be in accord with experience...