Word: 1880s
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...most conspicuous contribution to the fight against epidemics involves poliomyelitis. There were minor outbreaks of infantile paralysis in Scandinavia in the 1880s, but in 1894 the first true epidemic occurred in Vermont's Otter Creek Valley, with no fewer than 132 cases recorded...
While the picture belongs to Brando, it is a nice question whether The Missouri Breaks is worth owning. Penn has peopled it with interesting, unfamiliar faces, and shot it with obviously strong feelings for the landscape and period detail of the 1880s. Yet the strong technique is enlisted in the service of a very modest irony that has become one of the basic banalities of the modern western. Once again, the works of nature are shown to have grandeur and innocence, while the works of man are everywhere perceived as squalid pollutants...
...created, for tens of thousands of people, especially young ones, a social catastrophe that the conventional institutions of a free society are, in the short run, powerless to correct. But for different people and at different times, much the same thing happened: in the cities of the 1830s, the 1880s, the 1910s. Those who survived were the strong, the mobile and the lucky...
...lively culture of Yiddishkeit, and the rapid Jewish dispersion into the mainstream of American culture, by recasting them in the words of the immigrants themselves. In the wake of the assassination of czar Alexander II and the pogroms which followed, thousands of Jews left their homeland in the 1880s to fulfill their dream of a Jewish nation while hoping individually to gain some of the amenities of survival. The discovery that the two were mutually exclusive in America was the immigrants' tragic vision, according to Howe, and their subsequent individual decisions to assimilate were their tragic fall...
...just tools, but art objects. "The plate stacks," Art says, "they're one of the most impressive things around here." The Plate Stacks are two floors of green metal cabinets full of stars captured in glass. This treasury, containing about half a million pictures which go back to the 1880s, forms the cornerstone of Building C. Martha Liller, guardian of the plates, explains that the expensive collection is one of the long-range investments of the Observatory; only in recent years has it begun to pay off in fashionable fields such as quasars and X-ray sources. She demonstrates...