Word: refashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harkness gift to Yale which took away from Harvard the latter's famed 47 workshop, a playwriting part of the Fine Arts College embodied in Professor George Pierce Baker. Now another Harkness gift, declined by Yale, is going to refashion Harvard's most ancient and central aspect, oldtime Harvard College, to which the university's graduate schools are comparatively recent and traditionally minor adjuncts. Beneath the Lampoon's youthful vulgarity and ink-intoxicated rudeness there seemed to be a note of genuine bitterness which, since Harvard men are often sad, may have adumbrated some portion of adult Harvard sentiment...
After the first quarter of the century the Democratic party was awakened by its metropolitan members to the realization that politics had become Big Business and Big Business politics in the U. S. Long before Gov. Smith's nomination it was known that he would refashion the popular concept of his party, perhaps by a preelection indication of outstanding businessmen whom he would ask to help him conduct the government if he were elected (TIME, March...