Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that any clause or agreement barring servants from Aufzüge or Fahrstüle is void, and branded all such prohibitions as "obsolete and anti-social." This ruling may be an opening wedge to compel landlords and employers to provide better living conditions for domestic servants. Even in modern Berlin apartment buildings, backstairs are unlighted, and despite the long German winter, maids' rooms are nearly always without heat...
When the Chicago World's Fair opens in 1933 it will disclose a synthetic metropolis eight square miles in area, as colorful as the vanished palaces of Carthage, as modern in design as a straight-eight motor. These qualities are assured by a commission of eight architects who long ago for sook archaeology to create skyscrapers: Harvey Wiley Corbett (Chairman), Ralph T. Walker and Raymond M. Hood, of Manhattan; John A. Holabird, Edward H. Bennett and Daniel H. Burnham of Chica go; Arthur Brown Jr., of San Francisco; Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia...
Romanticist: But you forget that the terrific outlay on gown of the modern girl is, in the long run, more than equivalent to the sums which the boy friend spends...
...Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, K. F. Mather, Professor of Geology, will lecture on "The Impact of Modern Science upon Religion". This is the eighth of a series of lectures on religion being given under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...Argentina--the Evolution of a Modern State", Professor Haring, Harvard...