Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum of Modern Art New York City
TIME, May 23, however, your reviewer slipped up on one small but important detail in his article on the large Exhibition of American Art 1609-1938 which the Museum of Modern Art assembled at the request of the French Government for a summer showing in the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris. After outlining and analyzing with swift clarity the scope of the exhibition, your reviewer states in the caption under your color reproduction of Henry Varnum Poor's Boy with Bow that the artist is not represented in the Paris show...
...modern physics, beams of light are considered as particles as well as waves, and beams of electrons are considered as waves as well as particles. A microscope using visible illumination is limited in magnifying power by the wave length of light. Particles considerably smaller than the wave length escape detection because they slip through the meshes of the light waves like BB shot through a tennis net. But electrons have wave lengths 100,000 times smaller than those of light, and electrons, although they cannot be focused by a lens, can be focused by electric or magnetic fields which...
Early in the fall of his Junior year a concentrator must take written examinations on the Bible, Shakspere, and the important works of two of the following modern authors: Dante, Cervanites, Chaucer, Milton, Moliere, and Goethe. A student who fails those examinations may take the corresponding examination in the fall of his Senior year. In May of Senior year each concentrator must take two exams of three hours each on the literatures of Greece and Rome; two or three hours each in the translation of Greek and Latin authors at sight; and one of three hours on the general field...
...career. They are also "practical" in the intense mental discipline which they give to the student--something that is lacking in the more loosely organized cultural studies. Furthermore, the wealth of Antiquities thought provides a much more extensive and exciting field for cultivation than is contained in the more modern periods...