Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fashion photographer, who attributed his success to "hobgoblins that live inside the camera." An impish lightness of being animates these superb images, all of them marked by a sure sense of the elegant line, be it the pose of a long- legged beauty or the curvaceous fuselage of a 1930s airliner...
...foresee federal support and we do not seek it," Harrison adds. "NASA's role has traditionally focused on technological development, and that goes back to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics of the 1930s...
...pages; $25) is not so much a recollection of her early life in Southern Rhodesia as a dissection of it. Remote styles of life -- in a colonial outpost at the end of the British regime in Africa, with its hopeless yearnings and longings, and in communist circles of the 1930s, with their blithe and heartless dreams of a brave new world -- come under a moral microscope. How legitimate were people's . experiences? How well have youthful agendas held...
...hopes Eleanor Roosevelt would invite them over for a reception, which she often did." There is an old story, which author Kevin Phillips picked up in his new book about Washington, Arrogant Capital. It is about a young man driving his convertible past the White House in the 1930s when it starts to rain. He turns into the drive, goes up under the Portico, puts his top up and rolls back out on the avenue...
...This is not the first time biology has been used to structure a hierarchy of man," he said. He added that similar views held by eugenicists in the 1920s and 1930s led to the Holocaust...