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Word: modernizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans call for elimination of the 21 safety islands on Massachusetts Avenue, considered contributing factors in many recent accidents, and for a modern system of traffic lights. The present signal system is 30 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Advances Mass. Ave. Plans For Rebuilding | 9/27/1958 | See Source »

...some three weeks, a team of workmen from Zandamm, Holland, whom simply no one could understand, assembled the new modern classical organ over at Busch-Reisinger Museum. An auspicious event for music lovers and musical instrument lovers, its christening featured E. Power Biggs and free drinks for all. A late afternoon sun streamed through the windows and onto the stone floor of Romanesque Hall as groups of organists, German professors, and "friends of Busch-Reisinger Museum" clustered excitedly. Voices drifted between the hor d'oeurves...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Music Makers | 9/27/1958 | See Source »

...account of how New York City's Mayor Vincent ("Mr. Impy") Impellitteri returned to his native village in 1951. With no blasphemous intent, Levi describes the visit in the way some of the simpler Sicilians might have seen it-as the story of the Saviour repeated in modern form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Island of Fantasy | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...addition, the first floor will have a 165-seat auditorium with a projection booth, screen, and modern lighting facilities. The present mezzanine will be converted into departmental libraries, while offices and seminar rooms will occupy the other three floors. Classrooms will be built in the basement and the first floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language Center To Have Offices In Boylston Hall | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...crowded hour with popular classes. The two hundred and twenty-five elect who made it into Comp Lit 166 will file into Longfellow Alumnae with a sizeable vanguard of embittered auditors to hear Professor Guerard launch his whirlwind tour of modern novels from Bovary to Absolom. Fieser, Krall, et al, will start their annual purge of Harvard's pre-med ranks in Mallinc-krodt MB9. Expressly designed to separate the men from the boys, Chem 20 will again swell the number of English concentrators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Trouble With Monday | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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