Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old season a maiden (a horse that has never won a race). But this winter, in the theatrical setting at Santa Anita, Stagehand blossomed into a star, won three races in a row. Racing fans all knew that the incomparable Earl Sande, most famed jockey of modern times, was Maxwell Howard's trainer. Because Earl Sande in his riding days had won 967 races (including three Kentucky Derbies and five Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse than anyone else in the world...
...violinist, studied with famed Violinist Vieuxtemps at the Brussels Conservatoire. But in 1889, while poking about the musical archives of London's British Museum, he happened to come across manuscripts of a 17th-Century English music for viols. Violinist Dolmetsch had heard 17th-Century scores revived by modern musicians on modern instruments, and, like many, had found the results flat as saltless soup. But as he studied the old scores, he began to see that they contained subtleties that could not be translated into present-day musical terms. Other old English scores confirmed his idea. Fired with enthusiasm...
...French accent: "There has been no improvement in any art, at any time, anywhere! There have been little changes-like in fashions-but you usually find that where you've gained something you've at the same time lost something else that makes up for it. ... The modern piano is the impurest, the beastliest instrument that the world has ever seen...
Julius Caesar. The Mercury Theatre in collaboration with Shakespeare presents a long, breathless one-acter, full of modern meaning (TIME...
Providence, R.I., Mar. 3--Declaring that he had been criticized at Harvard because he insisted on teaching a course with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content, Kirsopp Lake former professor of History at Harvard, delivered an address on American education to the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa last night...