Sentences with phrase «of modern inventions»

Around 1910, he began contributing cartoons to magazines like Life and Judge, doing cartoon series like «In Ye Goode Old Days» (in Life), «In Ancient Times» and «Ancient Sources of Modern Inventions» (both in Judge) throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.

Aside from the basics and generic marvels of modern invention (roof over my head, car, cell phones, internet, elevators, dishwashers, tampons, etc, etc), in my own life and particular circumstances I'm especially grateful for my Ergo baby carrier, very involved and very good Grandparents on both sides, a very involved and very amazing husband, and the luxury of eating out more often than I should.

But with the unnatural process of irradiation, we can continue the unnatural but cheap practice of feeding cows corn, which they can't digest, so we can continue the unnatural process of consuming lots and lots of this modern invention called the cow.

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Best known for his invention of the modern alternating current electricity supply system, Tesla exercised religiously.

More famously, Twain lost the modern - day equivalent of millions on a publishing invention called the Paige compositor, which never really worked.

That invention, by Chester Carlson, a patent lawyer, led to the creation of the modern copy machine.

To make this point is to disagree with the subtitle of Harold Bloom's recent opus, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, which credits Shakespeare with the creation of the modern self.

His knowledge of modern linguistics led him to assert: «Language is a human invention, in that it reflects social convention regarding the relationship between the sound and the meaning.

She shows how the covenantal invention of identity can be violent, in both ancient Israel and modern states.

Thus, modern inventions have reinforced the democratization of society by obliterating the duality of manual labor and intellectual labor and by making it possible — even necessary for the sake of efficiency — for everyone to engage in the kinds of work reserved in aristocratic societies for gentlemen.

Now THAT would be a modern invention to be proud of... too bad it doesn't exist.

While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).

II.m), parallels the concluding concern of Science and the Modern World with «Social Progress» in the face of a technology that has mastered the invention of inventions and accelerated the pace of occupational change well beyond any past rate, which was always less than one generation per major innovation.

To say that the words of our doctrinal formulations must resonate if they are to retain their constitutive power is not a modern invention.

In spite of its innumerable positive contributions, modern science has played its part in the creation of phenomena that threaten the planet with extinction: the despoliation of the non-human natural world and the invention of weapons capable of omnicide.

«One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he can not communicate with us, can not reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so and that religion is our own sweet invention» (p. 479).

In a wonderfully concise passage in his 1940 preface to Adolfo Bioy Casares's The Invention of Morel, Jorge Luis Borges — taking issue with Ortega y Gasset's elevation of «psychological» fiction over the «fantastic» — offers a devastating critique of the pretensions of a great deal of modern «psychological realism»:

The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by J.B. Scheewind Cambridge University Press, 624 pages, $ 69.95 cloth, $ 24.95 The autonomy whose invention J. B. Schneewind explores in this long and magisterial history of seventeenth - and eighteenth - century moral philosophy is KaInvention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by J.B. Scheewind Cambridge University Press, 624 pages, $ 69.95 cloth, $ 24.95 The autonomy whose invention J. B. Schneewind explores in this long and magisterial history of seventeenth - and eighteenth - century moral philosophy is Kainvention J. B. Schneewind explores in this long and magisterial history of seventeenth - and eighteenth - century moral philosophy is Kantian....

The office of modern education is to nurture humaneness within the new world generated by the progress of invention.

The current form of the Bible that typically sits on our bookshelves is actually a modern invention.

I say that, because I disagree with the modern invention of the sinners prayer.

Greenberg suggests that the idea of a stable, lifelong homosexual identity is an invention of modern Western societies.

McLuhan locates the root of Cartesian certainty, the notion of clear and distinct ideas in an intelligible and perfectly coherent system of logic and reason (arguably the genesis of the modern ideal of rationality), in the invention of movable print.

it is a modern invention that is rarely seen outside of the foothills of afghanistan, designed solely to make women invisible.

Namely it should be acknowledged that Catholic lack of interest in the metaphysical and theistic implications of modern science over the two centuries leading up to the invention of the «direct conflict» myth, aided that invention - and thecontinued lack continues to aid it.

The «nominal Christian» is not an invention of modern times.

He also asserts that «modern science is an invention of medieval Christianity, and the greatest breakthroughs in scientific reason have largely been the work of Christians.»

The modern clerical collar dates from about 1865, and in spite of its common description as «Roman collar» is apparently a convenient Anglican invention.

The bad old days of margarine whose production quality was difficult to control are over, thanks to one man's invention of the modern emulsifier.

In Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food, Andrew Warnes searches for the origin of barbecue and is alternately overly scholarly and very interesting, especially when he finds great quotes, like this one from journalist David Dudley: «Barbecue's appeal isn't hard to fathom and may explain why barbecue cookery seems such a Neanderthal corner of modern gastronomy.

As we looked at, the invention of the modern pushchair led to a huge decline in babywearing as Mothers wanted only the best for their children.

All of the skulls were from populations living before the invention of the modern baby bottle or were from breastfeeding cultures, and therefore these individuals were necessarily breastfed.

Waterbirth for humans is an invention of the last hundred years, facilitated by modern plumbing, heating and sewage systems.

This is a modern invention due to the extensive scientific knowledge we have today about conception and the development of an unborn baby.

Modern inventions (like flushable liners and the diaper sprayer) have taken the grossness factor out of this issue.

Similar to many great inventions, no one can identify a single person as the inventor of the modern disposable baby diaper.

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Contemporary armed forces consider drones to be among the most useful military inventions of modern times, but the general public has been less enthusiastic.

North Korea, a peculiar country that managed to secure generations of totalitarian rule, is, indeed, itself a contradiction: the elite on the top try to make use of nuclear weapons — the technology of modern social invention, to maintain social culture and tradition that has long been lost in other parts of East Asia.

We think of journalism as a modern invention, but fans of WT Stead can probably lay claim to his being the first investigative journalist of the Victorian era.

«From the Magna Carta to the first Parliament to the industrial revolution to an empire that covered the world; most of the great inventions of modern times with Britain stamped on them: the telephone; the television; the computer; penicillin; the hovercraft; radar...

Perhaps no invention of modern times has delivered so much while initially promising so little.

The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is one of the birthplaces of modern molecular biology and it continues to be a prolific source of new ideas, discoveries and inventions.

«Childhood, as we now know it, is a thoroughly modern invention,» says anthropologist David Lancy of Utah State University in Logan.

Astronomers have for the first time recorded the full force of the shock wave hurled from supernova 1987A, the brightest stellar explosion witnessed from Earth since the invention of the modern telescope.

A sophisticated invention The tablet has long been in the collection at the British Museum in London, and it was likely created in Babylon (located in modern - day Iraq) between 350 and 50 B.C. Ossendrijver recently deciphered the text, and he described his discovery in an article that's featured on the cover of the journal Science this week.

Professor Thilo Rehren, of the UCL Institute of Archaeology, explains the significance of these results: «The invention of metallurgy is foundational for all modern cultures, and clearly happened repeatedly in different places across the globe.

As such, they are either a demonstration of independent invention by Neandertals or an indication that modern humans started influencing European Neandertals much earlier than previously believed.

And it's not as if modern Westerners are born with the ability to produce the Principia Mathematica, airplanes and skyscrapers — these cultural inventions depend on millennia of accumulated discoveries, and no single brain could produce them from scratch.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls visited the Mer de Glace (the Sea of Ice) Friday on Mont Blanc, where the retreating glacier has been documented for more than a century, through water colors painted before the invention of the still camera, black - and - white photos depicting a then - modern steam locomotive chuffing alongside the ice and today's high - definition satellite photos.