Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought of John Wesley, that troubled missionary who learned something in the 18th Century that we have forgotten in the 20th. Homeward bound to England, Wesley gazed out at a tossing sea and wrote in his diary, "I came to America to convert the Indians. But oh, dear God, who will convert...
David H. Donald. Warren Professor of American History, described Welty as "an American Jane Austen, clearly one of our very best 20th century writers...
Dukakis this week will also proclaim 1984 the year of secretaries and commemorate the 20th anniversary of a Boston ballet company...
...press conference after the rally McGovern fended off questions about what he would do if he does not finish first or second "I'm ready to go to Illinois" which holds its primary on March 20th, McGovern said...
...events as the creation or the movement of the sun. As Galileo said, quoting a churchman of his day, "The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach how to go to heaven and not how go the heavens." That is surely a credo any contemporary astronomer, indeed any 20th century scientist, can accept. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Wilton Wynn/Rome