Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is projecting himself far into the future and viewing himself retrospectively in the grandeur he will have assumed 100 years hence. In Washington last week the President made good use of his opportunity. From a beginning devoted to a historical picture of the New Deal as the logical modern flowering of a tradition in government set by Andrew Jackson, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Cleveland and Roosevelt I, the President adroitly proceeded to echo the remarks of his underlings on the subject of monopoly. Excerpts...
...offered to build Andorra a modern sanatorium for the 5,000 inhabitants...
Irish Poet and Managing Director of the Abbey Players, F. R. Biggins will be the guest speaker at the opening lecture of Mr. Horace Reynolds' course in Modern Irish Plays and Playwrights tonight...
Holder of a minor political office, Mr. Lee further states that Harvard has put education in a "straight-jacket," stultifying every effort of the schools to introduce courses designed to prepare students for the modern world. In this connection, he mentions Boston University and Boston College as doing a better job than their distinguished contemporary across the Charles...
...departing from purely routine affairs of his department and daring to interpret sickness in terms of underlying anxiety and worry, Dr. Bock in his Report to the President has shown his insight into student problems and has gone far in implying a solution to the factors of modern civilization as they threaten to impede Harvard's progress. His words are proof, if proof be needed, that the University's attitude toward the undergraduate must change with changing times if he is fully to benefit from what the College has to offer...