Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world, for Perry's fleet in the War of 1812, for the Mexican War, for the Union Army in the Civil War.' When the steel industry began, Mackintosh-Hemphill invented much of the machinery used, shipped it from Pittsburgh to India. Japan, Australia, Russia. Belgium and other nations. Epoch in the company's venerable history was when Andrew Carnegie came to it and President James Hemphill, irked by Europe's supremacy in steel, offered to build him the greatest plant in the world on the instalment plan. That plant was Homestead Steel Works. James Hemphill almost went blind...
...Without definitely stating the fact, we have sensed that Architecture is just entering upon a Renaissance, which will probably be regarded in future histories as a great architectural epoch...
...creation of himself and Secretary Kellogg. It may be suggested that the realistic and even cynical Briand was not deceived by the glib pretenses of the pact, but even so he was eminently the man to gauge its psychological value. More important was the Locarno Treaty, which made an epoch in Franco-German diplomacy, and in which the influence of Streseman was vital. The League of Nations, though not of his creating, has taken deeply the color of his personality, and will in all likelihood continue to move, for both good and evil; along the lines which he marked...
...true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation. . . . What other great, purely human .institution, devised in the era of the stagecoach and the candle, has so marvelously grown and survived into this epoch of the steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...
...this book Professor Jones brings out the close connection between the religious movements of the Commonwealth Period in England and the political issues which were then being settled. He points out what an important epoch it was for the maturing of the religious life of England, and equally so for its bold experiments in popular self-government; these were first tried in the democratic religious sects and then carried out into wider areas of the State. Using this period as an example, the writer shows that democracy will never be a true success without a deep moral and religious background...