Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard played a critical role in the development of modern football. In the late 1800s, the sport resembled present-day rugby more than it did present-day football--and by no means were there standard rules to which all teams adhered...
Preseason practice for a club sport is almost unheard of in modern times. Except in the case of the Harvard Rugby Club...
Basketball: Larry Bird. You've seen him on TV. But if you wait much longer, you may never see him in person. Bird, one of the best players of the modern era, is thinking of retiring soon...
Coming within sight of the actual Bronx--and in the most modern stadium in the Ivy League, but one which has never seen a home victory--the cheer seemed all too appropriate...
...fields of science, commerce and high technology, which are dominated the world over by English. "Our technical contribution," the newsmagazine Le Point recently lamented, "stopped with the word chauffeur." To strike back, committees have been formed by industrial and educational groups to create new French words for every modern occasion. Thus, a Frenchman now listens to his baladeur, rather than a Walkman, and plans vacations according to his partage de temps, and not his time-share. While some of the expressions are felicitous -- the computer term random-access memory becomes simply memoire vive (live memory) -- some are decidedly clumsy. Computer...