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Word: modernize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clam may not be 'up to snuff' in modern rhetoric; he may be slow, but he is safe and sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Reverend Dr. W. R. Matthews will deliver the William Belden Noble Lecture on the subject of "Suggestions Toward a Modern Christian Theism" at 8 o'clock this evening in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noble Lecture Tonight | 5/11/1928 | See Source »

Throughout the day, modern popular music and old popular marches known to the graduates will be played, and it is expected that "Yo-Ho" will be repeated several times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND WILL STRIKE UP TUNE FOR GRADUATES | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

...Katherine Osborn will give an address entitled "The Problems of the Modern Girl," and Mrs. William K. Provine, soprano, will render several selections at the meeting of the Society of Harvard Dames to be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Dames Assemble | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

...Hassan" is admittedly a three ring circus of costume and character, music and dancing, tragedy and love, couched in a verse tongue foreign to the modern stage, but in an idiom of beauty readily welcome. It is an amalgam of the accepted romantic and aestheic elements so healthily mixed in an atmosphere so familiarly strange that its reception was easily predictable. With such its attraction, the insinuating suggestion that its peculiar pictorial display, which so readily drew workers, may have helped to swell the tide of favor, can but skirt the vulgar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO SAMARKAND | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

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