Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What we are aiming to create is a sort of modern and international Corpus Juris Civilis," explained G. W. Wickersham, attorney general of the United States in the cabinet of President Taft, when questioned about the meeting of distinguished lawyers and jurists which opened here yesterday...
February 28--"Modern Methods of Cleaning Air", Professor Philip Drinker...
...cartooning, as in every other creative art, original ideas count a good deal more than any machine-like reproductive quality. For example, the modern newspaper artist, in addition to creating three hundred and sixty-five different ideas each year, must contend with the difficulty of working 'out of the weather,' that is, in order to insure publication at a given date he must have his material ready from six to eight weeks ahead. Thus on a cool June day the artist must be mentally sweating under a torrid August sun, while in October his characters are busily shoveling snow...
There are at present three displays in the Widener Treasure Room. They are extremely diversified, one being of Elizabethan literature, one of modern typography, and one of Spanish books...
...modern books displayed are from the gift of Philip Hofer '21 and are being show because of their relationship to the exhibit of paintings, sculpture, and prints of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art. The majority of the volumes are French publications, such as an edition of Pouchking's "Boris Godounov" printed by J. Schiffrin and Company in Paris. American typography is ably represented, however, by the edition of Voltaire's "Candide" illustrated in color by Rockwell Kent and published by Random House...