Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prospective business editors. Contrary to the supposition that the competition is drudgery, there are many interesting experiences, ranging all the way from taking Old Gold tests to searching for phonograph-listening marathons. Then there is contact with the advertising sides of business, which are recognized as essential factors in modern industry...
Thus concluded the contest between two famed Modern Women. The other woman, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, was asked in Washington if she would drop her other night club cases. Mrs. Willebrandt retorted: "Does that sound like...
...Manhattan water front. Gorham's craftsmen exhibited a bronze door for the Detroit home of Edsel Ford and a silver tea set valued at $38,000 which was hidden each evening in a safety vault. Ten construction companies joined in presenting a series of scenic tableaux representing modern processes of building...
...reaches the circumference of a man's body -a stream of molten steel with a long, sheer drop of 30 feet. The stream thuds into the pit, splashes out in a vast circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become one more product of combustion, most readily disposed of by being shoveled back into the furnace to be remelted with the rest of the slag. Yet, though the steel-worker...
...Mclean Professorship of Ancient and Modern History has been granted to William Scott Ferguson, Professor of Ancient History at Harvard since 1912, who, in 1913-14, was a professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Edward Channing '78 recently retired to the position of Mclean Professor, Emeritus, was the last holder of the chair...