Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kodal's Te Deum reaches heights of beauty rarely heard in any music old or new. Although Kodaly wrote this work for a national Hungarian festival, there seem to be no definite Hungarian traits in the music. His style is, rather cosmopolitan. To speak of the weaknesses first, this modern composer is not a master of the fugue. His individual lines are strong and clean, but he is sloppy in combining them...
...neighboring monarchies-its school system was not made over until a decade later. The agent of that change was a clean-shaven, energetic, gesticulating educator. Dr. Vaclav Príhoda, 45, who studied at Columbia's Teachers College and the University of Chicago, the two great springs of modern educational ideas in the U. S. He returned to Czechoslovakia with a burning zeal for the educational theories of Philosopher John Dewey...
...insulation is heaviest, up to 4 1/2 in. thick; in midocean, a cable is just over one inch in diameter. Though no cables have worn out their hazards are many-earthquakes, marine worms, icebergs, anchors, wars, fishermen. Finding damaged cables, picking them up is a comparatively simple matter for modern instruments. To keep cables in repair, 30 maintenance ships, strategically placed around the seven seas, go on trouble location at a cost of $1,000 a day, help bring the average yearly cost of upkeep to $300 per mile of cable...
...Bell System has held patents and improvements, such as the modern handset, in abeyance for years in order to avoid huge losses on equipment in hand...
Dedicated to President Roosevelt, "repositor of the great naval tradition of the United States," most of Author Pratt's 496-page book celebrates the U. S. Navy in action. On the theoretical and political side, from Revolutionary to modern times, his limited comment consists mainly of scorn for the "pinchpenny pacifists in Washington...