Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nowhere in Europe is ecclesiastical architecture expressing definite, concrete religion. Gothic is the perfect voicing of this, and nowhere is it to be found in modern work except in the United States...
...Olympic Games since their modern renaissance...
...jars, rotund and high-shouldered. Each stood for one of the tutelary demons of the dead -dog-headed Hapt (Hepy*) who represented the north, man-headed Amset for the south, ape-headed Duamutef for the east, falcon-headed Kebhsenuf for the west. They had no power to wither the modern hands which gripped the covers of the jars and twisted gently. Removal was not difficult for each cover had a knob on it. Craftsmen had carved the knobs into careful and duplicate images of TutankhAmen's head...
...from the slave states was cheap and plentiful. The New England mills had a virtual monopoly of U. S. textile manufactures. The thrifty Yankee prospered, passed his factory down from generation to generation. The Civil War upset many a factory, but that was only a passing indigestion compared to modern ailments...
...Warren H. Manning, former president of the American Society of Landscape Architecture, will speak on "A National Plan." At 8 o'clock in the evening, in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum Sir Lawrence Weaver of London, with a series of lantern slides, will lecture on "Modern Garden Design...