Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that epoch preceding and overlapping the Roosevelt regime, the eyes of a million Americans would have been straining impatiently for the week's issue of McClure's or Munsey's to soak up eagerly the revelations of Lincoln Steffens on this latest evidence of the decay of the 'System,' as he had named it. Following his hurried, jumpy, journalistic style through its thorough-going exploration of the intricacies and brazen sin of municipal graft. Steffens's audience would read avidly to the last word, throw up its hands in horror at the wickedness of the Big City, make...
...Lawson, Lloyd, Phillips, Russell--they are resurrected as local color for an historical novel and then return to comfortable obscurity. Lincoln Steffens, more virile than the others, survived two revolutions and awaits a third. But to survive he has had to cut himself loose from the mentality of the epoch in which he made his name known; his companion passed civilly away in the dull garb of progressivism; he outlived them to become a communist. CASTOR...
...close step with the profession it perpetuates, into an institution whose direct services to mankind are among the chief glories of the University. Just as it has given its knowledge and facilities to Boston, so have its graduates applied its teachings in nation-wide practice, its spirit in epoch-making discoveries...
...William Brewster Ely and his generation will also have a far better chance than college students of today to learn about the thing that has been Dr. Ely's intellectual passion for more than 50 years. Of his land school, Dr. Ely said last week: "It is something epoch-making." To understand what he meant it is necessary to have some conception of what land-Land whence taxes come, Land on which houses are built. Land which produces things-has meant to Dr. Ely. When he left Johns Hopkins in 1892, Dr. Ely went to the University of Wisconsin...
...insists on venting whenever the slightest occasion offers itself. At the beginning he makes it clear that the Victorians were building their house upon sand; he spectre of the unleashed machine haunts him as it did Henry Adams, who it will be remembered, also dated the end, of an epoch at 1870. In the closing sections, he calls up a picture of (old) Charlie Marx, wordless and forbidding, just beginning to cast his lengthened shadow, seen alike by the idle aristocrat and by the workingman. The Philistines, dancing upon the roof at Gaza, were evidently not more ill-fated than...