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Word: modernizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recollection that our good fortune has come to us under the shadow of an appalling calamity. The great monument to be erected here will commemorate a son of Harvard, who while still in his earliest manhood met a here's end in one of the most touching tragedies of modern times. Life had seemed to hold out to him the fairest promise. Secure in the affection of family and friends for he had won the respect, admiration and attachment of those who knew him, free from the harsh necessity of toiling for his daily bread, he could pursue the scholarly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laying of Library Cornerstone Features '13 News | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...modern theatre needs more imagination and photography, the Irish playwright told his audience. "The present rage for photographic realism is passing and new interpretive productions about small-town America will replace it," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carroll Hits Modern Stage In Speech to Dramatic Club | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

...pump was made of an old log piling from a Boston wharf. It was "turned" by the Maintenance Department and provided with a modern drinking fountain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Pump Primers Initiate New Year as Water Flows from Yard Pump | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...steam car eliminates one of the principle objections to the old Stanley car, namely that it took from 10 to 15 minutes to get steam up. The new car requires only a few seconds longer than it takes to start a modern gas car to get up enough steam to start. It has no gear shift, being governed entirely by the throttle and the brake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steam Car Modeled After Stanley Steamer Makes Auspicious Debut | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...process of which every human is a product is still considered so by countless people is not only a shameful but a dangerous state of affairs to U. S. doctors and health officers. Nevertheless, the old taboos die hard. Last week produced an interesting anomaly in the record of modern public health education: a four-page spread of text and pictures of how babies are born. Although it had been approved by the U. S. Post Office, it was banned by local law officers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and some 60 other communities. No copies were permitted to cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Facts of LIFE | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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