Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Topps decided to shake things up a bit and supplement the gum with--you guessed it--pictures of baseball players on 2" by 3" cards. This wasn't a new idea--cigarette manufacturers included cards with their smokes in the 1900s--but Topps slugged a homer with its new combination...
...desk, and everywhere theater posters and photographs ("He just keeps putting them up till the wall is full," says his secretary). And through the window pipe the New York City street noises that have inspired the American song ever since Irving Berlin first picked them up in the 1900s on the Lower East Side...
...sense, wind power has come full circle. In the early 1900s, most of the electricity on U.S. farms was provided by windmills. Those were replaced during the 1930s when the Rural Electrification Administration wired the countryside. But the oil embargoes and environmental concerns of the '70s prodded politicians to encourage the investigation of alternative energy sources. States began requiring their utilities to spend between 1% and 2% of profits on research, and the federal government added its generous tax credits for investments in renewables...
...pool does have a long and colorful history. It was built in the early 1900s for Westmorely Court, one of a group of private dormatories referred as the "Gold Coast" dorms because of their wealthy undergraduates. Numerous well-known Harvard graduates, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 and John Lithgow '67, were among users of the pool...
Civil libertarians concede that companies have a right, not to mention a moral obligation to shareholders, to protect themselves from ruinous medical bills. But some critics argue that the punitive firings of Mercado and Bone represent a throwback to the early 1900s, when spies from the Ford Motor Co.'s notorious Sociological Department invaded autoworkers' homes to search for forbidden booze or unmarried live-ins. (Ford's Big Brother approach was intended partly to protect its employees from Detroit's legions of prostitutes and grifters, who preyed on the kind of ill-educated new immigrants who often worked...