Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concluded the Japanese spokesman: "We consider the capture of the great city of Soochow in these circumstances to be the most unusual, tragi-comic exploit in the history of modern warfare...
Greying Arnold Bernstein, 47, son of an oldtime Saxon shipper, served with distinction as a German artillery officer during the War, was decorated with the Iron Cross, First Class. Back in Germany after the War he evolved the scheme of fitting modern freighters with automobile elevators so that U. S. cars could be exported to Europe uncrated and unscratched. So successful was this that Bernstein "floating garages'' have long carried over 60% of all U. S. automobile exports, made enough money for sole Owner Arnold Bernstein to allow him to buy out the American-Belgian-British Red Star...
...proof were still lacking that the bloody Soviet purge of the past year was a brutally direct, Oriental method of ridding the modern Stalinist Russia of the oldtime, inefficient professional revolutionists who brought it into being, such proof seemed to become apparent last week in the shuffled appointments of three Soviet career women. Removed without warning from the post of Commissar for Finance was Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, to be succeeded by a little-known man, Nikolai Sokolov...
...paintings for the city's Pennsylvania Museum of Art. With the seven-year accrual of $160,000 in his drawing account and his usual pearl-grey fedora on his head, Turfman Widener set out for Europe last year to scout for bargains. "I am not sympathetic with modern art," said Mr. Widener blandly. "What I think we should do is acquire the classics-those paintings which have lived through the centuries." Uppermost in Mr. Widener's mind, he said, was his favorite period- the French 18th Century - and particularly two paintings by François Boucher...
Fortnight ago Joseph Widener had his little joke. He announced that the large canvas which he had conveyed in great secrecy from Paris last spring was no Boucher but a painting by Paul Cézanne which has been regarded as one of the great masterpieces of modern art, Les Grandes Baigneuses, the longest-meditated of Cézanne's numerous studies of nude figures against landscape. Its title, The Big Bathers, distinguishing it from others in the Bathers series, refers to the size of the canvas: 6 ft. 10 in. by 8 ft. 3 in. It was acquired...