Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though his landscapes sometimes melted too much in atmospheric blues, his design was usually crisp and all his own. In a few pictures, like Fête de Suquet, with its bright, yellow, sunstruck, secretive buildings and dancing figures, he achieved without strain a poignancy of design that some modern painters sweat for. In 1937 the Paris Exposition awarded him his greatest honor: the Grand Prix for painting...
There are but two modern ways of mass-producing glass containers, the "suction" and the "gob" processes. Patents to machinery for the former are held by Owens-Illinois Glass Co., for the latter by the Hartford-Empire Co. Last year 67.4% of all glass containers in the U. S. were made under Hartford-Empire licenses, 29.2% under Owens-Illinois, leaving but 3.4% for independents. Owens-Illinois is a manufacturer, largest of its kind in the world, but Hartford-Empire makes nothing, merely licenses its patents or rents machinery. In 1924, 1932 and 1935 it formed cross-licensing agreements with Owens...
...BASIC WRITINGS OF SIGMUND FREUD -Edited by Dr. A. A. Brill-Modern Library...
...original, confused, confusing-a few stand head & shoulders above rivals in their respective fields. Some emerge from the year's crowd by their wide popular appeal, a few because of their unquestionable literary significance, still fewer because they offer contributions of importance to the consequential issues of the modern world. Outstanding titles...
...passage of a bed through it; furthermore the elevator is too small to accommodate even a cot. This simply means that the really sick patients are trapped in their beds in times of emergencies, and everyone is at all times generally inconvenienced. There is a crying need for more modern equipment. Although a large sum of money was spent last summer in various improvements, this appears to be only a stop-gap measure, and Stillman's facilities remain inadequate...