Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quote Roman Pliny -"Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora." The citation is as apt and as moral as the quotation itself, but I must blush for your translation-"more sacred than gold, and a damn sight less harmful." Such a rendition assumes that Pliny wrote in the manner of a modern encyclopaedic general and columnist who is both ribald and biblical, and that the Latin word "certe" had assumed new meaning since the birth of Christ. . . . The Romans swore in a different way, invoking Hercules, Castor, or Pollux most frequently. . . . SYDNEY J. MEHLMAN Brooklyn...
Meanwhile, for the first time in modern history, a Spanish Government moved to Barcelona, the second move of the Leftist Government since the war started. Plenty of government bureaus remained in overcrowded Valencia. Signaling the move, Minister of the Interior Julian Zugazagoita made a radio speech containing two statements, neither of which would have been possible year ago when the Leftist Government first moved to Valencia...
...George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
Internationally known author H. G. Wells will be taken by special escorts through the Yard this morning, later feted at a luncheon given by the Signet Society. He will speak on Monday at 8:15 o'clock on "The Brain Organization of the Modern World" in Symphony Hall...
...practical use gone with the incoming of modern machinery, a Tread Mill, once the most efficient means of churning butter and grinding corn, is now being used in the Fatigue Laboratory of the Business School in line with their research on physical exertion...