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They both realized that their Fifth Avenue home was rapidly growing out of date, so for nearly five years they spent their spare hours daily, in the, to Clifford, vital and seemingly unending details of modernizing the old house.
Colonel Mostyn drew a very animated and interesting portrait of his young charge. "He wants modernizing; his ideas are dated two hundred years back. Lady Lisle, there is no one who could work such wonders for him as you." "What could I do?" she asked, with a conscious smile. "You could modernize him and humanize him. Will you allow me to introduce him to you?
Perhaps few boys could read it nowadays, so, modernizing it somewhat, it ran thus: "And now to let ye weet that thing that followed that happening that made me acquaint with they two young Damoiselles.
There was no certainty that the emperor might not again, some day, try to enforce the sumptuary laws. When Caligula therefore began his career, indicating very clearly his sympathies with the modernizing party by his eagerness to do away with the old Roman simplicity, the young aristocracy of both sexes did not conceal their satisfaction.
For progress in Western education in the Orient, under both European and native auspices, see L. Bertrand, Le Mirage oriental, pp. 291-392; C. S. Cooper, The Modernizing of the Orient, pp. 3-13, 24-64. In his Introduction to Sir Valentine Chirol's Indian Unrest, p. xii. Cromer, Modern Egypt, Vol. II., pp. 228-243. Vambéry, Western Culture in Eastern Lands, pp. 203-204.
It would seem as if the modernizing of Japan had been providentially delayed until the last half of the nineteenth century with its steam and electricity, annihilators of space and time, in order that her evolution might be studied with a minuteness impossible in any previous age, or by any previous generation.
Security is based on our national will, and security is based on the strength of our Armed Forces. We have the will, and militarily we are very strong. Security also comes through the strength of our alliances. We have reconfirmed our commitment to the defense of Europe, and this year we will demonstrate that commitment by further modernizing and strengthening our military capabilities there.
I shall also deal with our defense and foreign policies, and with our new approaches to the role and structure of Government itself. Considered as a whole, this series of messages will be a blueprint for modernizing the concept and the functions of American Government to meet the needs of our people.
"Well, frankly, Joe," she replied, "you might spend your evenings less profitably than reading bulletins and other interesting papers on making farms pay." "Guess I'll have to get in line," he replied laughing. "Bob's been preaching to me ever since he came here about modernizing the old farm and digging up our 'Hidden Treasure, as he calls it."
Of worldly goods, except money, securities, and clothes, that compote was practically all that Sophia owned. Happily it was a first-class item, doing no shame to the antique magnificence of the drawing-room. In yielding to Constance's terrible inertia, Sophia had meant nevertheless to work her own will on the interior of the house. She had meant to bully Constance into modernizing the dwelling.
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