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Word: styles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were designed by famed Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. They will stand on stilts over a lake (see cut), will be modernist in style. Besides classrooms, a library, laboratories, shops, offices, the buildings will include two-room apartments for teachers, rooms for 120 students. Each student will have a private study but share a bedroom. Most unusual aspect of the plans is the buildings' compactness, for compact community life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Buncombe County's Eden | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Camel cigarets, Lyricist Johnny Mercer wrote and sang a five-stanza Calypso-style greeting, set to Benny Goodman's music. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Curtsies | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Kilt-style skirt worn over shorts (already fashionable among Florida's rich beach boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stripped | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...hope that instructors will refuse to accept without protest examinations couched in a style which does not conform to 'reasonable' standards of clearness and correctness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Looks for Better Grammar in Written Exams. | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...necessary that the instructor analyze to student's difficulties for him; dissatisfaction with a student's style is sufficient cause for reporting him to the Committee," the report concludes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Looks for Better Grammar in Written Exams. | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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