Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modern & Beacon--"Paris Bound" and "On With The Show...
...first week of December will see the Cercle play in Boston, at some theatre which has not yet been chosen. There is some comment at present concerning the relative value of a modern or a classic vehicle for the club, but a decision will be made shortly...
Minns was graduated from Eton, and a student for two years at Trinity, Cambridge. He had a distinguished record in Classics, and was Senior Scholar there. In preparation for entrance to the diplomatic service, he will study in the field of modern languages here...
From the heroically borne ordeals of Job to the wretched suicide of Anna Karenina, the great stories of the race have been compounded of suffering. Anguish is constant in Ultima Thule, which is already being called great. Though modern critics are hasty with their wreaths, this story of impoverished Dr. Richard Mahony, 49, who began anew in Australia, is indubitably a deep-dug, searing novel. Huddling his wife and three lateborn children within bleak walls, the Doctor felt too poor to entertain. He thus lost contacts, clientele. Then he removed to another town, where one of his daughters died...
...have become a common-place. In the midst of the tremendous progress made by such branches of society as commerce and science, the law been slow in adapting itself to new conditions. The Sherman Anti-Trust laws, to use a familiar illustration, are already hopelessly antiquated to deal with modern business. By nature of its bulk and intimate connection with the past, the legal code is usually one of the last phases of society to adapt itself to changing environment...