Word: 1930s
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Fortunately, there are solutions to these man-made disasters. India and Pakistan can, like China and Algeria, reforest their hills. The sub-Saharan nations of Africa can, with massive international help, copy the U.S.'s 1930s soil conservation program and reclaim their land. If the anchovies do return in great numbers, the Peruvians can strictly limit the yearly catch and still get fine harvests. But clearly, the first lesson is to understand-and respect-basic ecological realities. As Economist Lester Brown puts it: "If we are to get the food we need, we cannot put more stress on nature...
Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts, lauded Deknatel for his contributions to the appreciation of modern art. "When Professor Deknatel began teaching modern art at Harvard in the 1930s not many people either knew or cared about the difference between a Picasso or a Matisse," Slive said. "Today things are different. His pioneer work and the scores of students he trained helped bring about the change...
...designed correctly, according to Amy Cohn of the commission staff, is that "Massachusetts Hall is one of a handful of examples of 18th Century New England institutional architecture, besides being the oldest Harvard building." She said that Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, architects had "taken great pains in the 1930s to see that the changes they made were done perfectly," and that "the commission was eager to see the same thing done...
...attempt to centralize power in the executive and the use of illegal and quasi-legal means to achieve that centralization is not unprecedented. The process has been an on-going one since the 1930s. Nixon is quite right to point out the extensive use of wiretaps in the Kennedy administration; by the same token he could defend his phoney military alert by saying that Kennedy pulled a similar trick during the Cuban missile crisis to make his failure at the Bay of Pigs look excusable...
...policy. Israel has never tried to gain acceptance of its presence in the area, only to impose itself through arms and conquest. The idea that you can speak only from the mouth of a gun has always been Israel's idea, inherited perhaps from the Europe of the 1930s...