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Word: moderns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cram. "Creative music has almost ceased. Painting has fallen back and sculpture is in almost the same condition." Soon Architect Cram qualified this lugubrious assertion: "All the arts except American architecture have fallen back. The revival of American architecture since 1880 is one of the most remarkable manifestations of modern history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dicta '. | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...talk, Mr. Russell "spoke" several poems of his notable contemporaries in the modern Irish literary movement. Among the works recited were poems by William Butler Yeats, George Moore, and George Bernard Shaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IRISH PATRIOT POETS ARE LAUDED BY "A.E." | 2/11/1928 | See Source »

Under the auspices of the school of Landscape Architecture. Sir Lawrence Weaver will give an illustrated lecture on "Modern Garden Design" at 8 o'clock on Monday in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weaver to Lecture at Old Fogg | 2/11/1928 | See Source »

Speaking on "Modern Garden Design", Sir Lawrence Weaver will give the second lecture the evening of the same day at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum. He is director of the United Kingdom Exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, and is President of the Design and Industries Association of Great Britain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 2/9/1928 | See Source »

...Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute education and has practically ignored the Harvard reading period, declared that he could read 15 or 20 books a day. At this gait he would hit, he was bound to admit, only the higher dirty spots of our modern mound builders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLID STERLING | 2/9/1928 | See Source »

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