Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telegraph ably summed up London's reaction to Chicago thus: "Scenes like these have never occurred in Europe within the mem ory of the living, and couldn't possibly occur. We are looking at a social organization which has united the riches and luxury of the most modern civilization with the manners and customs of particularly disorderly mining camps...
...musicians to acknowledge their share of the ovation. This they refused to do; instead, they too applauded their conductor. For though they had played well, in fact beautifully, the musicians were aware that most of the credit for a splendid performance of one of the most exciting compositions in modern music belonged to Mr. Monteux-who first conducted Le Sacre du Printemps and who is admittedly as familiar with the tangled splendor of its score as the composer himself...
MARCO MILLIONS-Eugene O'Neill, hitting modern babbittry with a fantastic Marco Polo mallet (TIME...
...similar discovery has apparently been made by the History Department during the past year. Students, professors, and outsiders have long racked their brains in an effort to discern some significance in the numbers assigned to the various history courses. What the number 30 has to do with Modern European history or 14 with that of the French Revolution has remained as much of a mystery as why 3 should lead to a knowledge of the Roman Empire or 32 to the general history of the United States. But it has recently been discovered that numbers, in themselves meaningless, can carry...
...Suggestions Toward a Modern Christian Theism...