Word: 1930s
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...furnish the Union, sought to construct a building where all the undergraduates, many of whom could not afford "Gold Coast" housing, could spend their days. He wanted them to have a club of their own, a non-exclusive haven designed for all students, rich and poor. In the early 1930s, the selective house system was created, and the Union was relegated to serve as the first-year dinning hall...
...networking. Nobody yells "Carp-e-e," although choicer epithets are often used for a dilatory night editor. The practice of releasing unpublished stories to the public press, which had already been suspended once James wrote his article, died a natural death from old age somewhere in the 1920s or 1930s, its grave unmarked. But candidates still botch stories and give "wonderful excuses," and the flavor of a real newspaper is still there...
...Yellowstone that cascade has long been felt, and since the 1930s, wildlife managers have watched in dismay as the park's ecosystem--once well balanced between predator and prey--grew more and more bottom-heavy. Finally, in the 1970s, they decided to do something about it. Working through the then new Endangered Species Act, they proposed a plan under which wolves would be imported from Canada to reclaim their place in the ecosystem. Twenty years later, the plan was approved, and wolves were trucked from across the border--31 to Yellowstone and 35 to Idaho...
...large fall show of Schiele's drawings and paintings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, all on loan from the government-financed Leopold Foundation in Vienna. The two paintings have long been claimed by descendants of Viennese Jewish families from whom the Nazis stole them in the 1930s. Right at the end of the show--in fact only hours before the works were to be crated for return to Vienna--Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau took the unusual and high-handed step of hitting MOMA with a subpoena that froze the disputed Schieles in New York City until...
...issues in which the 100 most influential people of the 20th century will be named [TO OUR READERS, Nov. 24]. In terms of pure influence and impact, the shadow of Adolf Hitler looms above all. It is difficult to find a truly significant event or situation from the middle 1930s to the early '90s that is not the direct or indirect result of, or is not in some way related to, his personal decisions. But for Hitler's war and its sequel, all the others--surely Churchill, undoubtedly De Gaulle, probably Roosevelt and maybe Stalin--would have remained local phenomena...