Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through Kansas City, early in the week, passed a more cheerful figure than either the Beaver Man or the Modern Cincinnatus. This one, swart, short, mustachioed, had played a different game from theirs, a waiting game. Redskin ancestors on his grandmother's side had doubtless played the same game often. Out hunting with other braves, a good plan had been to let the others stalk, and perhaps frighten, the deer, which then would come along the runway where an artful man sat ready. The Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas had seen the waiting game work well on race tracks...
That "sport" is "work" within the meaning of the Lord God is as clear to Queen Wilhelmina as the fact that the Allah of the Mohammedans undoubtedly meant to prohibit "spirituous liquors" when he prohibited "wine." The mere fact that neither "sport," in the modern sense, nor "spirituous liquors" had been invented when the Gods uttered their respective prohibitions is immaterial...
...inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae, and with its new modern mounting it will continue on two especially significant problems--first, the survey of the super-system of galaxies known as the spiral or extra-galactic nebulae, and second, the motions of stars, and the stellar structure, in the neighborhood of the sun. For this second problem, Dr. W. J. Luyten...
...college, since the greater part of candidates drop ancient languages upon leaving school, the listing on Commencement Day remains according to work in a secondary institution four or five years before. The result is such a confusion of terms as occurs when one finds a student concentrating in Modern Languages receiving an S.B., and a man whose field is Chemistry listed...
...modern theatre began as a form for sermons as it is now a subject for them. Processions, pageants, performances -this was a slow, natural sequence. Not be fore the 1 5th century did audiences, growing more interested in the character of the customary devil than that of Christ, cause these moralities to lose their holy character. Dramatic interpretations of the gospels are not yet without their spiritual value. Last week, in Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury, England, there was performed The Coming of Christ, a nativity play written in the antique tradition by famed Poet John Masefield...