Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your job . . . was well done. After all, what you said for Riding applies as well to the whole of the work in the modern field, where we are all laborers together. In that there is plenty of room for disagreement without forsaking the solidarity of purpose which we all respect and work...
Last week he walked out, after modern ballistics experts had testified that bullets expand on being fired, that no bullet ever again fits the barrel of the gun that fired it. After twelve years unjustly in jail, Alexander Ripan had his freedom but few of his teeth. He had pulled them out one by one in his cell, so that the pain would "keep him from going crazy...
...French used a neat bit of pagan lore to warn off the Italians. As the Premier was being ecstatically hailed by the fiery islanders in Ajaccio and Bastia, French warships circled the island. No Corsican-and no Italian-could have failed to get the point that this was a modern version of the old Norse magic of surrounding a spot with fire (in this case, navy steel) to keep out evil (Italians...
From textbook publishers' presses today pours a flood of books designed to teach democracy. Many of these books are less benign toward modern dictatorships than pre-War texts were toward the old European monarchies. Some denounce dictators. But most contemporary history books balance their moral indignation, state the dictatorships' case and let pupils judge for themselves. Sample excerpts...
...training," Dean Leighton continued, "and its desire to strengthen the position of English A, which seeks to aid students at the outset in gaining such a command, the Faculty Council has decided to reduce the number of students exempted from this course. In the future the Committee for Elementary Modern language Instruction will be given authority to determine what students shall be exempt from English...