Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dynamic personnel manager of Marseille's largest and showiest dry goods store, Les Nouvelles Galeries, bearded M. Frichet recently succeeded in persuading the owners to protect the lives of clerks and customers in their gaudy firetrap by ordering a modern sprinkler system. The gossiping Marseille plumbers and their helpers were maddeningly slow; but by last week they had put in all the pipes and sprinkler heads, promised by this week to get the system connected to the water mains...
...Victorious") died last week, he would have left to the people he ruled so firmly a legacy unmatched by any other 20th Century ruler in material, social, educational accomplishments. Realizing that national prestige paid dividends. President Atatürk, with the driving force of a dictator, built up a modern, mechanized army. That made Turkey sought after by Germany, France and England, as a powerful Near Eastern ally. His Government doubled the country's railroad mileage, started sugar and textile factories, coal and iron industries to make Turkey more self-sufficient. He ordered electrification and reforestation programs and began...
...told a dumbfounded audience that the only value of the town's restoration by the Rockefellers was to "show us how little we need this type of architecture now." Said he: "What has been done for you, or to you, here in Williamsburg, has advanced our cause of modern, organic architecture greatly, but not in the way it was intended. It shows how narrow, how shallow life was in Colonial days. I have long ceased to take off my hat to our forefathers, seeing what a mess they left us." Up in arms, as one man, rose Colonial-conscious...
...topics and their times are: Sunday; night, "The Necessity of Faith; "Monday night, "A Modern Man's Belief in God;" Wednesday, "Christ as Leader and Lord; "Thursday, "The Christian Plan for Human Living." On next Sunday morning Dean Matthews will end up his series with a sermon entitled "For-give Us Our Sins...
...modern university like Harvard, this division is perpetuated by restricted endowments, which make specific appropriations to specific departments. All work must be carried on within the bounds thus created; there can be coordination or overlapping. Fluid funds are the solution. They would make possible research projects which need the cooperation of several fields. An excellent example is the Cabot Foundation for research in plant breeding, which gives Harvard a free hand and thus permits expenditure in several departments, including the Forest, Arnold Arboretum, and the Biological Laboratory. Moreover, unrestricted funds can support scholars, like the proposed University Professors, whose horizon...