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At any rate, frankness is the saving quality of the modern note.
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Francis Bacon sounded the modern note; for him the end of knowledge is utility.
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And here, once more, there is a strangely modern note.
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Only one sharply modern note intruded-the two big, yellow-winged monoplanes.
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Even the modern note did not jar upon him.
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I loved its antiquity, the utter absence of any modern note, and its atmosphere of other days.
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This was the modern note, and very speedily was the lesson learned; the time was apt for it.
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His themes are richly human, his psychologic truth (the most modern note of realism) unerring in its accuracy and insight.
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It is the modern note to see the inside, to attack the essence, the spirit, and to work everything out from that.
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The most modern note yet sounded in business, in diplomacy, in social life, is expressed by the phrase, "Live openly!"
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"Romance with the jarring modern note which haunts us all to-day," he said.
