Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French-born Marie Leonce Wall read H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage for the Anglicized version...
...standard Pullman berths or paid a premium to use walled compartments, drawing rooms or bedrooms. Last year Pullman Co. built two experimental sleepers, named them Progress and Advance (renamed California and Bear Flag), loaned them to various railroads in the East and West for tryouts. Progress was a crack modern observation car; Advance a de luxe double-decker with nine rooms "down stairs" and seven on the upper level reached by individual stairs. This spring another experimental car, the Roomette, was submitted to U. S. railroads (TIME, April 26). As a result of these experiments the Pullman Co. last week...
...Manhattan, where exhibitions showed new work by some of the same sculptors and good work by several up-&-coming candidates. To those who attended the great exhibition of American sculpture at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1929, these shows were striking evidence of how far modern sculpture has drifted from marble grace toward the representation of massive "primitive" simplicity, in a multitude of materials...
Sponsored by Harvard in connection with its program to promote the study of American history, DeVote's lecture on the material of history in the modern historical novel will be broadcast internationally by shortwave radio over the non-commercial station W1XAL of Boston, on 6.04 megacycles...
Theodore Spencer '28, assistant professor of English, discussed "Modern Poetic Drama" last night in the first of a series of weekly Dramatic Club broadcasts...