Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eventually, a brilliant young mathematician named Org discovered that laying branches over the pit was the answer. Although this method of warfare soon became obsolete--in the early 1900s the Russians officially banned us from going into their country and digging these dangerous pits--the demand for additional weaponry continued to rise steadily...
...grand object of travelling," said Samuel Johnson, "is to see the shores of the Mediterranean." The maxim had a special force among artists from the early 1900s to the eve of World War II. It applied to one particular shore: the Cote d'Azur, that strip of Provence that runs from Nice to Hyeres. If ever a littoral was changed from a place to an idea by the efforts of painters, this one was it. Paul Cezanne, a Provencal rooted in the limestone and red clay of his native Aix, had made backcountry Provence around Mont Ste.-Victoire...
...synonymous with modernity itself to people in America, England and Russia until around 1925. The movement took an aggressively internationalist stance, looking to a future world unified by technology. Yet its rhetoric was bedded deep in Italian life. The core of the futurist group, which coalesced in the early 1900s, was made up of the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Giacomo Balla, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini, the architect Antonio Sant'Elia and a few writers clustered around the figure of Marinetti, poet, dandy, ringmaster, publicist and red-hot explainer to the global village -- "the caffeine of Europe...
...punishment has been worth it. And now Fusco can put his trophy of Hobey Baker--a Princeton player in the early 1900s--along with his brother's in the family trophy case...
...central argument of immigration reformers, the possibility of a backlash against newcomers, has precedent in U.S. history. Much of the country's immigration legislation of the late 1800s and early 1900s, for example, was specifically written with the aim of barring Chinese and other Asians. But the Urban Institute's Muller believes there is now more tolerance and less racial animosity than at any other time in U.S. history. Says he: "There is no public attitude remotely like the virulent attitude of the 1840s and 1920s. I don't detect any strong backlash out there...