Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reduction of alien quotas to 2% of the number of that nationality resident in the U. S. according to the 1890 census...
...Adolphus Ward and George Peabody Gooch, heading an imposing list of Cambridge dons, with here and there an "alien savant," have contributed a work of significance which is consistent in its excellence of quality and in its forceful authority with any work that has yet emanated from that seat of learning, universitas cantabrigiensis...
...commission to rename certain villages and districts which have a Greek or Byzantine name. In each case a Turkish equivalent must be found; in the case of San Stefano (on the Sea of Marmora near Constantinople), however, a new name must be found as it "savors of an alien faith...
There were the charitably inclined, and the representatives of alien organizations, who advocated taking down the .bars to admit large groups of refugees and the down-trodden people of the world...
...first time the New York theatre has sunk to depths of indecency which must be characterized as alien...