Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving Congress sole power to levy tariffs and otherwise regulate commerce between the States, the Founding Fathers thought to insure free trade within the U. S. and prevent in future the economic horrors of the Revolutionary Confederation. But modern States have the express power to restrict liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have...
...late war, but they have given much less to China; to the Church Committee for China Relief, only $268,709 since its founding last summer. John R. Mott, vice chairman of the Committee, declares that in China is "the greatest area and volume of relatively unrelieved human suffering of modern times"-30,000,000 people in need of the barest sustenance...
...include several items not visible at Knoedler's. Among them: 1) a nude by Giorgione, Titian's great Venetian contemporary; 2) an example of the mighty figure painting of Michelangelo; 3) one of Rubens' rubicund exaltations of Flemish flesh; 4) more significant examples of choice modern work, both in the old tradition...
Died. Henry Alexander Wise Wood, 73, inventor of many improvements in modern printing presses, and first president of the American Society of Aeronautic Engineers; of a streptococcic infection; in Manhattan...
...most famed modern sociologists is Robert Staughton Lynd, Princeton '14. Dr. Lynd is best known for the monumental studies he and his eminent wife made of the town of Muncie, Ind. and described in Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). Since he wrote Middletown, Dr. Lynd has taught sociology at Columbia University and brooded on the fact that mankind, busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures...