Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under modern conditions between highly organized States can bring no good," the manifesto declared. "We appeal above all to the leaders and people in the Great German Reich at this moment of power and influence in their history. We appeal to them to use those great gifts by which they have for centuries enriched our common heritage ... to join with us in a supreme effort to lay the spectre of war." A good idea of the impression this kind of amiable but useless talk makes on the dictators was presented in a cartoon printed in the Glasgow Daily Record & Mail...
...most destructive earthquake of modern times took 99,331 lives, injured 103,733 at Tokyo and Yokohama in 1923. The world's greatest quake was recorded in India in 1737, with the deaths estimated at 300,000. The U. S.'s famed San Francisco quake and fire in 1906 killed only...
...publishers claim that books cannot be sold cheaply, point to Modern Age, which a year and a half ago sank a fortune in less-than-a-dollar books, is only now breaking even. Publishers say that U. S. living standards are too high, that even in bad times U. S. citizens are anti-Woolworth about books...
...fear of trichinosis but simple tabu was responsible for ancient Jewish laws against eating pork. Reason behind the tabu, say modern anthropologists, was that nomadic Jewish tribes could not keep swine, which are "sedentary" animals...
Died. Albert Saveur, 75, founder of the modern science of metallurgy and world's No. 1 authority on the metallurgy of iron and steel, longtime (1899-1935) Harvard professor; in Boston...