Word: classically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Wilson's first statement of policy was an anticlassical proclamation. " The Classic languages said the new President, " are dead issues. There is no necessity for their inclusion in the curriculum here. It is my intention to teach the children of the farm how to raise better hogs and produce more cotton per acre; that is the reason they are here...
...German Classic...
...Author. Hermann Sudermann shares with Gerhart Hauptmann the perhaps dubious honor of being considered a contemporary classic by his own nation in his own time. He is chiefly famous as a novelist and dramatist and his reputation in both fields is international...
...Paris, Gabriel Faure's opera Penelope has been revived at the Opera Comique, after ten years. This piece is in the " noble and intelligent Classic mask," conceived as a piece of chamber music, with the delicacy and original vigor that is associated with Bach's chamber music. It has achieved a succes d'estime, and testifies to the growing popularity of the classic manner...
...American Construction Council surveys the entire industry. And gradually it is evolving a code of construction ethics, so that eventually the plumber will cease to be the classic example of robbery-within-the-law. Simultaneously, the Council is educating the 99,000,000 people who are not constructors or constructor's wives. In normal times it teaches them, for instance, when to build, when not to. Apartments and office buildings must be built according to renting seasons which for the first is October, and for the second, February. But public buildings, private houses, industrial plants should be built...