Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czechoslovakia will shortly open three huge cemeteries," announced the Prager Presse defiantly this week. "The largest of the three, at Chodov, is big enough to hold 500,000 corpses." Above this was splashed a headline:" THE MOST MODERN MORGUE IN EUROPE...
Among other subjects are a survey of music, great modern philosophers, organization and control of industry, astronomy, the American Constitution, foreign languages, writing for publication, the Civil War and Reconstruction, introductory psychology, and sociology...
Most heroic of modern therapeutic measures is artificial fever treatment. If a patient with gonorrhea, St. Vitus' dance or atrophic arthritis is willing to lie snugly in a hot box or expose himself to short-wave radiation for periods varying from two to ten hours, sometimes several times a week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts...
...Great of Russia had a 952-piece set of Wedgwood pottery. Today Queen Elizabeth II of England still sips her morning tea from Wedgwood. Added evidence that Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. keeps pace with the times was last week's laying of a cornerstone for a new hyperefficient, modern electric kiln outside Hanley, England...
...ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY-Edited by Selden Rodman-Random House ($3). A generous assortment of modern verse, with biographical notes on all the writers represented, and an enthusiastic if somewhat cockerel-sure introduction to contemporary poetics-all aimed to give readers a leg-up on Pegasus. Most readers will like Editor Rodman and his broad-backed horse...