Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most exciting days in modern Chinese history ripped past, every fresh dispatch made it clearer that first reports of the Battle of Taierchwang had not erred in suggesting this was going to prove the first major open field defeat of the Japanese since their Empire was Awaked up by Commodore Perry. Continuing last week to taste Japanese blood in a big way, the Chinese pushed northward through bombed, shelled and ruined Taierchwang in which not a house was left standing according to white eyewitnesses, chased Japanese 20 miles to Yihsien, where the Mikado's routed forces finally made...
More expensive than all other modern improvements put together, however, scheduled to cost $160,000,000, nearly three times the annual revenue of Iran, is an 865-mile railroad line. No foreign country is to own any part of this line, no foreign loans are to be accepted. Conceived as a strategic railway, to enable the Iranians to repulse possible British invasion from the Persian Gulf, Russian invasion from the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic, the railroad line carefully avoids all Iran's big cities except Teheran, skirts round the Empire's more fertile districts, spans wide rivers, crosses...
...will write a book, live in Adams House, counsel upperclassmen, organize discussions under the house plan. He said he would willingly sign the Massachusetts teachers' pledge of loyalty to the Constitution. He will also remain a literary editor of the New Masses, soon will have published a Modern Age book called I Like America...
...speech, or the Word, looms large for Karl Earth. He believes in an invisible rather than a visible, institutional Church, and for him this Church is the custodian of a revealed, written or preached Word. Earth is not a Fundamentalist as U. S. divines understand Fundamentalism. Barthians accept modern Biblican criticism freely. To them the Word is something apprehended in man's conscience, often understood in spite of, rather than because of, the interpretations of preachers and theologians...
...teaches) still dose themselves and their children with sulfur & molasses (brimstone & treacle) every spring to thin their blood. In extreme cases they apply bloodsucking leeches. By the medical profession in general, bloodletting is considered even more out-of-date than doses of brimstone & treacle. Yet precisely such venesection, suggested modern Dr. Bazett. might be a helpful prophylactic against the blood torrents of spring...