Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectator it seemed that Franklin Roosevelt was obviously displeased by this reference to the vulnerability of some of his appointees-such as Associate Justice Hugo Black. But the President could not resent the keen analogy to the relations between himself and his son James, who might well be a modern-day Mercury using a White House Packard for his winged heels...
...influence of symbols Arnold does not, as has been claimed, fail to see the enormous strides men have made through rational thinking. He realizes that the progress of physical science has been aided by the existence of a symbol like "men in white" which, in conflicts between tradition and modern methods, has thrown the balance in favor of rational thinking. Arnold's point is that there has been a delay in developing a symbol in the field of social science that enables rational thinking to break down the logictight compartments of a Jeffersonian Democrat...
...early Welsh dictionary given by Thomas Hollis and a book of ancient Welsh laws, the "Black Book of Chirk" are the features of the Welsh exhibition. A case of modern Welsh books is also on display. Several Bibles translated into Gaelic especially for the Scots round out the exhibit...
Sigfried Giedion, Swiss historian of art and one of the leading European figures in the promotion of modern architecture and art, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the current academic year, it was announced today...
...Giedion studied the history of art, archaeology and literature in universities in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Following these studies, at Bauhaus Weimar, he came in contact with Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture. In 1925 he returned to Switzerland and took an important part in the fight to introduce modern architecture in that country...