Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Nov. 20 - "Will Durant [belongs] with the modern breed of synthesizers whose aim is to get knowledge into the heads of semi-educated people...
...grave of the Dutch Simon Bolivar, last fortnight's most tragic victim (85 dead). No lives were lost on Terukuni Maru nor on the Italian Fianona of 6,660 tons, which was blown open under the chalk cliffs of Dover but, with tugs, made the beach. The modern British destroyer Gipsy, after rescuing and landing three Nazi airmen who had flown over London's outskirts and abandoned their shot-up plane at sea in a rubber boat, was returning to her patrol off Harwich when an explosion that felt on shore like an earthquake blasted her apart, killed...
...Danubian bloc of neutrals. Until Rumania decided to listen to the "voice of the new era"-i.e., hand back to Hungary Transylvania, which Rumania took at the end of World War I-Hungary would refuse to play ball. "It is up to Rumania to accept the ideas of modern times and thus cooperate in forming a new order on the Danube," threatened the Foreign Minister. "Otherwise history will lay its hands...
There are still some 138,500 one-room rural schools in the U. S., but full-dress modern education tends to forget about them. TIME herewith reports a normal day in such a school...
Opinions differ greatly as to the absolute value of Strawinsky's music and his position as a composer. His place as the most influential figure in the modern music world, however, is incontestable, and familiarity with his music and ideas is absolutely necessary for an understanding of the music...