Word: 1930s
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...1930s and '40s, reformers had refashioned police departments along more narrowly focused lines. Officers were trained to concentrate on apprehending criminals, especially for the most serious crimes such as murder, assault, robbery and rape. Other functions were handed off to city health and welfare departments or similar agencies. After World War II, patrol cars and two-way radios came into wider use. Police became a mobile force, cruising anonymously through neighborhoods they knew mostly as the staging ground for each night's disturbances...
Gregor Eichele, a researcher at Baylor Medical School in Houston, Tx., said that the theory reminds him of cell death in the central nervous system, which has been known of since the 1930s, he said...
...efforts to clamp state censorship on art in the 20th century, one symbolic event stands out. It is "Entartete Kunst," the Nazis' show of "degenerate art," the purpose of which was to ridicule Modernism. Even when Stalin launched his terror against the Russian avant-garde in the 1930s, it never occurred to his apparatchiks to hold a big show of the art he loathed. But this was precisely what Hitler did in the summer of 1937 in Munich, contrasting it with another exhibition -- reverently installed in the neoclassical halls of the new House of German...
...Yodels Jerry Lumsden, a property broker in Austin whose 27% office vacancy rate is among the highest in Texas: "The trend line is good." The Lone Star State, like the rest of America, is reeling from what many experts consider the most glutted commercial real estate market since the 1930s. The culprit: the 1980s, of course, during which U.S. office space doubled, to 5.38 billion sq. ft. In city after city the industry is overleveraged, overbuilt and underleased. At 540 million sq. ft., the unrented space across the country equals the total space available in 10 Bostons. That translates into...
Harvard's unique house system began under President A. Lawrence Lowell in the early 1930s. According to Lowell, the plan was patterned after the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges and designed "to unite learning with the fine art of living...