Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other pieces. Contrasting such idealization with satirical but penetrating prints such as George Grosz's Workingman's Sunday (see cut) or Peggy Bacon's Help! (see cut), Baltimoreans last week put their teeth in the question of honest eyesight, which has become an international issue of modern...
...Republican town, encouraged him to try his luck as the one fanatically New Deal voice in Democratic New York City. But in spite of "oxygen" for Post circulation (266,151 for the six months ending March 31, 1938) provided by guessing contests, cheap sets of Dickens and reproductions of Modern Masters, the Post has not done too well. With 3,251,223 lines of paid advertising in the six months ending last June, the Post is well behind all its after noon competitors, which rank in order: Sun, World-Telegram, Journal & American. Last week, Dave Stern applied a new kind...
...Modern jai alai, as popularized by the Cubans,* is played on a concrete court about half the length of a football field, marked off to let the speeding players readily know where they are and to determine the boundaries of a fair serve (between the fault and pass line)-see diagram. Three walls are of concrete, the fourth is of wire netting to protect the spectators from a ball that travels 100 miles an hour. Object of the game is to scoop the ball (either in the air or on first bounce) as it bounds off the front wall...
...Modern Zionist dancers have long studied and imitated the traditional dances of the Yemenite Jews. Prominent among these Zionist dancers is Moscow-born Rina Nikova, former prima ballerina of Palestine's Tel Aviv Opera. While working in Palestine, Ballerina Nikova's interest in the Yemenite Jews became so absorbing that she spent months living in their villages learning their customs and dances at first hand. Upshot of her study was the formation in 1932 of a ballet troupe of seven dark-eyed, black-haired Yemenite girls. Because the girls sang as well as danced, she called her troupe...
...would be elected President in 1936, demonstrated that public opinion polls have a commercial value. Result is that at least half-a-dozen organizations today are periodically polling the U. S. public on what it eats, what it thinks, whether it expects to come to a good end. First modern scientific pollitician was big-eared, sharp-nosed Dr. Henry Charles Link, director of the Psychological Corporation's Psychological Service Centre in Manhattan. Dr. Link, who thinks mankind needs more religion and mathematics, started using a "psychological barometer" in 1932, three years before the FORTUNE Survey and George Horace Gallup...