Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modern--Beacon--"Illusion"; and "Fast Company...
...Oxford we have only one professor of modern English literature in the entire university," continued Professor Garrod, "so that Professor Lowes will in reality be an additional lecturer in English literature. He will, however, be the only outstanding teacher of the moment whose particular interest is in the Romantic movement...
...Economic Conference at Geneva in 1927 were focused largely upon this question of trade barriers and numerous obstacles (including a good many quite apart from tariff levels) were revealed. But one wonders sometimes whether their real significance is not at times exaggerated, whether the amazing adjustability or fluidity of modern commerce does not in large part circumvent such barriers within a short time after their establishment...
...theory behind this experiment is in line with the modern tendency in education and for the practical application of the principle no better field could be found than Harvard University. The vast resources for research, and the presence of a faculty which is second to none in this country marks this college as one in which a student would be able to utilize his opportunities to the utmost...
...greatest obstacle in the path of a United States of Europe is the existence of a regularly centralized, modern state in continental Europe today," said W. L. Langer '15, assistant professor in the department of History, when asked to comment on the consolidation of the states of Europe as proposed by Premier Briand. "The plan may have a beautiful ideal, but it seems to me to be utterly impracticable. There are too many obstructions that must be ironed out before anything can be done...