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Word: modernize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then, every photograph in Cambridge's only breakfast table daily has been manufactured on the new, modern engraving machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advent of Photo Engraving Machine Rocks Local Daily | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

...Winston Churchill is striving to put Great Britain into its former position as a balance of power," said C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, in a lecture in Littauer Auditorium sponsored by the United Nations Council last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brinton Discusses Churchill Aims at UN Council Lecture | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

John Harvard's home town of Southwark, England, has honored President Conant by giving his name to the largest structure in its modern housing project. Conant House opened for occupancy February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Honored by Harvard's Birthplace | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

Sociologist Firey declared that modern family trends have made present housing obsolete and that, as a result, large dwellings are no longer needed. The migration to the west coast and the fact that families now prefer to live alone are gradually removing the need for large dwellings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Declare Housing Problem Will Get Worse | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

...Rinchart Publishing Company has lately brought out on the market a new series of paperbound books which, with the gradually disappearing GI subsidy, is going to mean considerable saving to the undergraduate in the Humanities. Modern Library, which was such a good thing when it first came out, has not only been steadily increasing its prices but lately taken to putting flashy dust-jackets on its issues in an apparent attempt to cover up the deteriorating quality of its insides. The catalogue of Modern Library is still without equal, but Rinchart's thick paper at least allows the student...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

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