Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian victims of Canadian religious persecution got U. S. permission to settle in Alaska, founded Alaska's first refugee colony at Metlakatla. They fished for salmon, now have Alaska's most prosperous municipality. With publicly owned utilities, a 60-piece band, Alaska's only municipal hall, modern Met-lakatlans have fine homes (onefourth have organs or pianos), own boats valued from...
Last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Bayard Taylor Horton and associates* of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn* announced a new method of treating the "constant, excruciating, burning, boring" headaches of chronic alcoholics. When the system is flooded with alcohol, large amounts of histamine, a protein derivative, pour into the blood stream. Somehow, said the doctors, the histamine expands blood vessels in the head, causes hangover headaches. Strangely enough, they found that "immunizing" injections of minute quantities of histamine brought permanent relief to 65 patients, no improvement to ten patients...
...familiar Tibetan figure is the sinister Tzuren or poison-doctor, who practices his art to keep the ins in and the outs out. In modern times, only Dalai Lama who did not die mysteriously before reaching his majority has been Ngawang Lopsang Toupden Gyatso. In 1893, shortly before he took office, he thoughtfully ordered his regent and other advisers thrown into dungeons. As "Buddha of Mercy" he then had a long and prosperous life. If the 14th Reincarnation learns this much about the 13th, he may think it wise to do the same...
Most specific in his condemnation was British Novelist E. M. Forster: "I cannot believe that Christianity will ever cope with the present world-wide mess, and I think that such influence as it retains in modern society is due to its financial backing rather than to its spiritual appeal. It was a spiritual force once, but the indwelling spirit will have to be restated if it is to calm the waters again, and probably restated in a non-Christian form...
...story of this novel is unsparing enough now to disturb most modern readers. Seventy-two years ago it was so shocking it blew its gifted author into literary oblivion. One of the best war stories in U. S. fiction, the first and one of the best realistic portraits of a young American girl, the slyest commentary on the difference in romantic Southern and Northern ways of doing the same thing, it was also one of the greatest failures in U. S. publishing. The book went out of print; the blonde and charming Miss Ravenel was forgotten, along with her dashing...