Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer school has always been known for its excellent courses in the drama, and this year was no exception. John Mason Brown, dramatic critic of the New York Post, gave the most popular course in the yard. "The History of the Modern Theatre." A one-act tragedy written in Brown's course last year, "Vengeance in Leka", was among the plays put on in the Hasty Pudding Club theatre under the direction of Frederick C, Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
Archibald MacLeish, 1932 winner of the Politzer poetry prize, has recently been appointed Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism here for the coming academic year. MacLeish will supervise the creation in Widener of a collection of general literature on modern journalism...
...FACILITIES OF MODERN HEMENWAY...
...president, and therefore was expected to make British Science's annual philosophical discourse, avoiding grubby details. In his address, Lord Ray leigh defended Science against the charge that it has made war horrible, using the now-familiar argument that the deadliest weapons of modern war - e.g., high explosives, airplanes, poison gas - were developed for peaceful purposes...
...comparable with the Piltdown skull (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936). Academic anthropologists at first paid him no heed. But when the Swanscombe relic was examined under scholastic auspices, it was seen to be a remarkable thing indeed. Indubitably ancient, though probably not quite so old as the Piltdown, it had modern anatomical features. Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, who is 72, gave it as his opinion that the Swanscombe skull is the most important fossil discovery made in England during his lifetime...