Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's first Morris Gray Poetry Reading will take place at 4:30 p. m. this afternoon, when Kenneth Rexroth reads from his poems in the Widener Library poetry room. The Gray Fund was set up in 1929 by Morris Gray '77 to provide funds for talks on modern poetry...
...Petterssen's job will be to appraise and utilize the new methods that are making meteorology something like an exact science. Modern meteorology was developed in his native country, Norway (whose Drs. Vilhelm and Jakob Bjerknes worked out the method of air-mass analysis), but now, says Dr. Petterssen; the U.S. is well in the lead...
Adrian's music was modern and daring, brought him the fame the Devil promised. But as the 24 years come to an end, Adrian's sanity does too. In a terrible nightmarish scene, Mann describes the gathering where Adrian crazily tries to explain his last and greatest composition to his friends. By that time, the Devil had already claimed...
...which sometimes grows wearisome. It is distinguished for its portrait of Bishop Blasco de Valero. The devout prelate, self-sacrificing, presiding with terrible humility and conscientiousness over the trials of heretics, is a masterly portrait, equal to Maugham's best, and belonging well up in the gallery of modern fiction...
...noted French sociologist and educator will address an open meeting today on "Work Satisfaction and Modern Industry" in Emerson...