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Walking past Coady Galgay Florist, "The UnknownArea" of Inman Square gradually appears. Lookinglike it is caught in a time warp, half of InmanSquare has buildings dating from the 1800s andearly 1900s, but new development springing up allover the place also makes the area look extremelymodern...
...Freshman smokers" took place at Harvard in the early 1900s. What were they...
...sociability. In 1993 the church capped a harsh campaign of intellectual purification against dozens of feminists and dissidents with the excommunication of D. Michael Quinn, a leading historian whose painstaking work documented Smith's involvement with the occult and church leaders' misrepresentation of some continued polygamy in the early 1900s. The current crackdown, some analysts believe, stems from fears of loss of control as the church becomes more international. Most think it will get worse if, as is likely, the church's hard-line No. 3 man, Boyd Packer, someday becomes President. Some wonder how the strict Mormon sense...
...disinfectant, chlorine is one of the public-health success stories of the 20th century. After it was first used to purify water supplies in the early 1900s, typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery virtually disappeared from the U.S. But the chemical has been under attack in recent years by environmentalists for contributing to the destruction of the earth's ozone layer. Greenpeace's "Chlorine Kills!" campaign is focused primarily on paper bleaching and other industrial uses, but the organization also urged pool operators to look for an alternative to chlorine...
...painters, at least, began to sense a fault line in American history--the way in which America's eager anticipation of the future might turn into a more doubt-ridden view of progress, after the fratricidal horrors of the Civil War. To Henry Adams, writing in the early 1900s, the assassination seemed to have thrown Americans into a state of mind without connection to the past; it was a secular analogy to the death...