Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years a Methodist minister in good standing (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935). Small, blonde and decidedly the most comely of U. S. divines, Miss Utley has been called by newspapers the "Garbo of the Pulpit" and the "Terror of the Tabernacles"; by Dr. Straton the "Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." This reverend miss once declared: "If I were a man, I'd never marry a woman preacher. They declaim too much." But two years ago a shoe salesman named Wilbur Eugene Langkop heard Evangelist Utley preach in Quincy, 111., drove her to Hannibal, Mo., followed her thereafter...
...Greek adventurers of all time have been Homer's Ulysses and the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, munitions tycoon and Europe's ''Mystery Man." Until last week, no one thought of drawing a parallel between the two. Forever Ulysses, a fictionized biography, makes its hero a modern Greek named Ulysses whose career, recalling Zaharoff's, also recalls Ulysses...
When the House of Representatives convenes today, it will begin the discussion of the Ludlow War Referendum Amendment, another in the modern series of peace panaceas. Like so many similar plans, it is totally impractical. Like all attempts to paralyze further American foreign policy, it is potentially harmful to the very cause it wishes to promote. Congress can never legislate peace, and the longer it continues to try, the nearer will be second World...
...could relieve by miraculous action the stress of modern pressures of all kinds and restore something of the old tranquillity of life, the need of physicians would be greatly reduced...
...consideration of these modern complexities "it is possible to predict a broader role for medicine in the university than is involved in the care of acute infections and other physical disorders," Dr. Bock said...