Word: 1870s
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...proved hard to reconcile, and just two years after the White House ceremony, Venter was fired by the board. For solace, he decided to get away. Still a sailing enthusiast, he hit on a grand plan to mimic the journey of the H.M.S. Challenger, the vessel that in the 1870s conducted the first global mission to sample life from the oceans of the world. Venter would circumnavigate the globe with a crew of scientists and sailors and every 200 miles (320 km) would dip canisters into the ocean at various depths, filter whatever life-forms floated in - mostly microscopic...
...guess I’m one of those unusual people in the entertainment industry who after the show is over, I’ll go home and read Emerson and Steinbeck and write notes about what happened in the 1870s rather than what some other people in the business are known to do after shows,” Strauss said in a 1991 C-SPAN appearance...
...1870s, when Faust’s alma mater Bryn Mawr was pioneering in higher education for women, Harvard’s President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, doubted whether women’s “natural mental capacities” were up to the challenge. Co-education was, of course, unthinkable, even when bright young Bostonian women were pounding on the doors. Eliot could barely imagine the consequences of trying “…to teach together sets of persons, who like young men and young women, differ widely in regard to sensibility, quickness, docility...
...Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bob Ford (Casey Affleck) is a soulful young punk who wants to join up with Jesse (Brad Pitt) and his outlaw gang, whose exploits have made them notorious throughout the burgeoning West of the 1870s. Bob has read all the dime novels about Jesse and wants to rob his way into infamy. But the gang is breaking down from envy and exhaustion--and from the natural rancor of ornery, armed men. Bob is too late for the party; he's just in time for the funeral...
...What does the music of four English lads have to do with these very American eruptions? Nothing. They were back home, or in the studio, or off in India with the Maharishi. Pasting Beatles songs onto this storyline makes no more sense than scoring every Western set in the 1870s with the arias Verdi was composing at the time. At least the Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas Beatles show, Love, was set in Liverpool and found recognizably English equivalents for Penny Lane and Eleanor Rigby's cemetery. The NBC TV drama American Dreams, also set in the '60s, wove...