This is very similar to modern virtual memory.
It was the most selective spring in modern memory at America's elite schools, according to college admissions officers.
New Orleans's crisis has little relation to anything the nation has faced in modern memory, and traditional solutions will simply not help.
Contrary to some assertions, this was not the bitterest Republican convention in modern memory.
For the first time in modern memory, a Chancellor's speech was stopped by disruptions.
"Or it could be the least productive in modern memory."
And last year, for the first time in modern memory, the former Soviet Navy conducted no fleet-wide exercises.
Many experts think it could be the driest period in modern memory, outpacing even the legendary drought of 1960-1964.
Job creation has been weaker than at any time in modern memory.
"We haven't see political fighting like this in Virginia in modern memory," he said.