Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chemist John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking Sweden...
...Works of art or of human industry of an early epoch...
...William Augustus White Shakespeare Quartos safely and gratefully received. This gift marks an epoch in the history of Harvard Library. Our warmest thanks to your mother, to the members of your family, and to yourself. (Signed) A. Lawrence Lowell...
...named anything else but "Spirit of St. Louis, 2nd"-and the succeeding planes he has built for himself, "Spirit of St. Louis, 3d-4th-" etc? The city of St. Louis sponsored his epoch-making flight and this generous, far-sighted act is responsible for all of the glory which has immortalized the man and his achievement...
Bundling. The winters about Cape Cod are cold and the evenings, in the epoch before the mightiest minds were turned to providing parlor entertainment, long and uninteresting. Young sparks also were compelled to walk the long miles that lay between their cottages and those of their well-beloveds. Arriving tired and cold, they sought some warmer, some sprightlier diversion than sofa sitting in a chilly chamber. Bundling was invented for their convenience. It consisted of putting girl and boy into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter...