Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern medicos do not place quite so much reliance on the curative properties of music as some of their earlier colleagues did. But last week some 300 students, faculty members and guests gathered at Johns Hopkins to hear a program of music written for pathological purposes. The program, put together by famed Medical Historian Dr. Henry Ernest Sigerist, included a "Frottola" by 16th-century Composer Marchetto Cara, written to help cure the Marchese of Mantua of syphilis; a piece played in the 17th Century to cure tarantism, popularly believed to be caused by the bite of a tarantula; hymnlike music...
...emeritus of mathematics at Yale and a famed authority on the moon, who complacently smoked a pipe in violation of the Society's house rules, reported that the measurements of lunar motion which he started making a half-century ago have recently been rechecked with the help of modern calculating machines. Dr. Brown remarked with evident amusement that only two extremely slight errors had been found, both amounting to less than 1/100 of a second of arc on the curve...
...Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass of helpless men and women, Director Ford shows modern war technique in outlines no cinemagoer can fail to comprehend. When, after that, the film attempts to whitewash the munitions industry, it succeeds only in getting itself all messed...
...modern holding company pyramid, as in a modern apartment house, when the elevators break down there are always the stairs. Last week it looked as though Financier Robert Young had made use of the backstairs of the oldtime Van Sweringen holding company pyramid...
Givers of gratuitous advice are usually not very popular. If they give it to young, ambitious girls, they encounter another difficulty: they seem either presumptuous, as if doubtful of the talents, charm and intelligence of the girls they are advising, or sentimental in assuming that modern girls do not know what it is all about. In Listen Little Girl Munro Leaf, 32-year-old author of Ferdinand (bestselling children's book), avoids these hazards by dismissing moral and emotional considerations at the outset, tells his girls what they can expect to find in Manhattan in the way of jobs...