Word: modernistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tilled her farm on the prairies of the unopened land of Michigan, the young girl who carried the precious pack of Revolutionary information from New London to General Washington in Boston, the southern belle who left her plantation for the Richmond front and the improvised hospitals, and the crusading modernist who feels she too must enter into the spirit of the capitalistic system make us all too aware of the adventurous campaigning life that America's women have lead. But do they reveal to us the more quiet homemaking life of women which even today is in many quarters still...
...Manhattan architects, including white-thatched Whitney Warren, Joseph Freedlander and Ely Kahn, awarded George Frei Jr. the two-and-a-half year Paris scholarship of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects for a project to house a National Banking Board in a monumental group of buildings in Washington. No modernist, Architect Frei's buildings were designed in what he called "modified classicism," a style which seems to consist in substituting plain bands of stone for the traditional classic entablatures. Still Architect Frei believes architecture should be timely, said his winning design was "fun to work on because it bore...
Four years ago when Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell was made president there were murmurings concerning his modernist liberality. The election of Dr. Beaven would cause no such quiverings U. S. Churchmen know him well as an evangelical leader, on the safe side despite his joining with other Federal Council committee members in approving the use of contraceptives. Born in Idaho, son of a British circuit rider. Baptist Beaven went to Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.), studied for the ministry on the Pacific Coast while earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied...
...Great Dome" is no modernist. Last week reporters learned that while he plans no change in the ideals of the Academy, he is sensitive to the taunts of young art students that American Academicians are mere copyists of classical models...
Obscure in Manhattan was Hector O. Hamilton until, last March, his design for the Soviet Union's new Palace of Soviets suddenly won Red favor in competition with work submitted by eight world-great modernist architects, notably happy Josef Urban (TIME, March...