Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene in Berlin only reinforced the unsettling impression that disorder is taking over the streets of Germany and the country is unable to stop it. Although racism is not just a German problem and comparisons with Hitler's state-sponsored pogroms of the 1930s are greatly exaggerated, the world cannot help asking why such behavior is happening again...
...attempt to reconsider America's world role, reform its priorities, recruit its strength was dismissed by Bush as isolationist -- which took the country further back than World War II, back to the rhetoric of the 1930s. It was a comparative advance toward modernity for Bush to re-enter the cold war of the 1950s by raising McCarthyite doubts about Clinton's trip to Moscow. At any rate it is hard to find anything new in Bush's new world order. Even before communism's fall, Reagan was far readier to imagine a different world arrangement, to adapt and dream, than...
...entirely self-financed allowed him to claim he was "owned" by no one but his followers. It turned out there just weren't enough of them to bring him even close to the victory he kept promising. If he had been just another computer salesman from Dallas with a 1930s haircut and a nasal twang, he probably would never have got his name on the ballot, let alone been admitted to the inner circle of candidates. His money -- plus his record as a can-do entrepreneur -- gained him that much. But it's doubtful, given who Perot...
Using modern international English language newspapers as a standard of zero difficulty, Hayes found that science journal articles, near zero in the 1930s and 40s, have soared to extremely high levels of difficulty in the decades since--and there's no end in sight, as papers become more and more complex and specialized...
...Takano, a fourth generation Japanese-American, is running in an inland district that was settled in two waves: in the 1930s by Grapes-of-Wrathian whites escaping the Dust Bowl and again in the '70s and '80s by young middle class whites and Hispanics looking for California real estate they could afford. One hundred miles inland, California, so the saying goes, is Arkansas...