Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hooton 's view of modern Germany: "[Germany] repeatedly threatens the ruin of Western civilization, because this nation is composed of organic blends which, for some unknown genetic reasons, combine marvelous understanding of mechanical techniques with utter obtusity in human relations, and which are of a suggestibility so extreme that they are more easily possessed by devils than were the Gadarene swine...
...until well into 1940. Syracuse's Crucible Steel, No. 1 specialist in alloy steels for gun and shell forgings, automobile and aircraft parts, was booked solid through January 1, In the industry's tin plate division, which normally loafs after Labor Day, U. S. Steel's modern tin mill, Pittsburgh's huge Irvin works was so jammed that 63 old-fashioned handmills in Pennsylvania and Ohio have been called out of limbo to work...
...picture, plus 25% of profits), he bought Ciné studios in Nice, decided to travel. Until two years ago, when he settled in Mexico, he had lived in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Spain, Egypt, learned Arabic, got 20 pieces of his own sculpture bought by the Museum of Modern Art in Cairo, and picked up the true story of a bullfighter, which he turned into Mars in the House of Death...
...York World's Fair, is not, from the point of view of art alone, worth seeing. However, certain phases of the exhibit are interesting insofar as they are able to show clearly the direction of a trend the importance of which is continually increasing in every field of modern culture. Seeds of social and economic maladjustment are beginning to take root on the canvases of many excellent artists...
...resignation of John Tucker Murray, professor of English, was also announced. Professor Murray has been a noted authority on Shakespeare and was well known for his courses on modern drama. Murray has been at Harvard ever since his graduation in 1897 first as an instructor, and later as an associate professor and professor...