Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter, straws for summer, stockings still cotton but in stylish tan. As a special treat, garters will be issued to both sexes. Reason: the city discovered that the paupers' clothes were so old-fashioned they had to be made to order; it will be cheaper to buy modern clothes from stock...
...Minister's father Joseph Chamberlain moved from London to Birmingham to represent the family's new business interests there and before he was half through his bold career he had made Birmingham what civic experts now recognize as "the first great municipality with an integrated and fully modern government...
Richards, a literary critic and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, wrote the first book about modern semantics, The Meaning of Meaning, with Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow Cantabrigian...
...motorcar 1) a bag of potatoes, 2) a hollyhock, 3) a flying cloud, 4) the sound of the sea? That these questions are likely to be received with awe instead of derision is largely due to the fact that the author was Ivor Armstrong Richards, a founder of the modern science of semantics (the meaning of language...
Readers who penetrate its obscurities, however, find that Mr. Richards makes shrewd sense. Aiming to teach students to think by a logical examination of the meaning of words, he proposes that rhetoric, grammar and logic be restored to the modern school curriculum. But he would teach these subjects in a new way: not the rules of grammar but the reasons for the rules...