Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...office is filled with ancient artifacts from his excavations in the Middle East, framed manuscripts and flyers, shards of 18th and 19th century pottery from Harvard Yard, and portraits of past colleagues...
...MIDDLE AGES PEOPLE TOOK POTIONS FOR THEIR ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead...
...much earlier then people say, 'The payment's not due until the 19th, why is she telling me now?'" she said...
Thus the issue at hand is simply a misunderstanding between those who value the past and those who value the future. The Administration is preparing the way for a successful academic environment in the 21st century. The alumni are concerned with maintaining sense of the 19th. But the redesign incorporates both perspectives, being at once practical and conservative. The University must be a dynamic institution in order to continually accommodate the needs of the Harvard community...
Winslow Homer was, along with Thomas Eakins, the greatest American painter of the late 19th century. Vermeer of Delft was the greatest Dutch one of the late 17th century. Both are the subjects of extraordinary retrospective shows at the National Gallery in Washington. But because the Republicans' zeal to pressure Bill Clinton into signing their balanced-budget bill has closed the National Gallery (along with the whole Smithsonian complex, and much else), nobody can see Homer in Washington, though the show will travel to Boston in February and New York City in June...