Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the changing generations, historians alter their interpretations of past events. Historian Francis Parkman, writing in the 18505, thought of the westward movement in the U.S. as the story of man's impact on nature. Frederick J. Turner, writing 50 years later, saw pioneering as the origin of U.S. individualism. A modern U.S. historian, Columbia University's Allan J. Nevins (The Ordeal of the Union), speaking in Dearborn, Mich, to the Society of American Archivists, discussed some added meanings of the modern era in U.S. history-"the emergence of America to the leadership of the Western world." Said...
...Nothing presented to us," he went on, "was sufficient to make us alter our original position that big Saturdays--and football Saturdays are big Saturdays--should be pulled...
...possible. The more he saw of contemporary society, the more he despised it; the more he wrote, the more contemptuous he became of "style" and "art." "The patient's special obsession," he wrote, in a mock case-history of himself, "is that he believes it possible to alter the lives of others by means of the word. General symptoms: dissatisfaction with the existing order, condemnation of everyone except himself...
...result of a year's work, this report contains alternative plans, either of which would alter the curriculum for freshman and sophomore years...
...Altered Appearance. Shirley Kremen, using an alias, had rented the lonely four-room hideout in June. A tidy housekeeper, she kept a plentiful supply of canned goods, liquor and beer on hand, and $2,000 in sugar-bowl money. When she was arrested, she had just washed a man's white sweater and spread it neatly on a towel to dry. The men stuck close to the cabin, avoided the neighbors, whiled away the time with TV and table tennis. Thompson and Steinberg had gone to some pains to alter their appearances. Thompson, who had gained about...