Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's one thing Harvard's about, it's tradition. Since the 1930s, when the House system came into being, each new class of Harvard students has eaten its first meal in the Union. Back in the 1930s, if the "Freshman Redbooks" of that era are any guide, the Union served as a real cultural and extracurricular center for Harvard's first-year students...
...transcribes other people's words truly be called a writer? In Terkel's case the question seems irrelevant. His books may not have the scope of literature or the authority of social science, but they do pack the wallop of theater -- particularly the declamatory, political theater of the 1930s as exemplified by Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty...
...Banks were left holding $454 billion in outstanding real estate loans backed by significantly shrunken collateral. While some of the stronger institutions are propping up potential failures at the government's request, many fear that Japan may see its first bank failures since the 1930s...
Despite the dramatic resurgence, fraternities at Harvard are not a new phenomenon. The campus was peppered with frats in the 19th and early 20th centuries, all of which were closed down in the 1930s when the University began to require that student groups be autonomous...
...these superstitions and taboos date back to the time when there were no effective treatments and a cancer diagnosis was almost invariably a death sentence. Even in the 1930s, less than 1 cancer victim in 5 was living after five years. Steady progress over the past few decades has changed that calculus dramatically. Today the cure rate for cancer approaches 50%, and for many forms of the disease, it is 90% or higher...