Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement that Beck Hall is to be sold at auction brings up a line of memories and traditions that are unmistakably associated with Harvard. It means that one of the most colorful buildings of a most colorful epoch must make way for newer developments. But aside from this sentimental attitude that forgets all of the bad plumbing, and the creaking floors, there is a very palpable point which should not be overlooked. With this new sale about to be negotiated, the question is, what is the attitude of the University going...
...become one of the widely known playwrights in America, and is the author of over 20 plays pageants, and books on the theatre. His best known plays are "A Thousand Years Ago", "The Scarecrow", "Mater", "This Fine-pretty World", and "Kentucky Mountain Fantastics". Of his books on the theatre, "Epoch The Life of Steele MacKaye" is his outstanding product
...evening dress suspect when they joyfully and separately entered the Hollywood Restaurant on Broadway one night last week, that they would soon be hustled out as subjects for a prime Prohibition test-case in Manhattan. The Hollywood is a popular middle-class night club of the post-Texas Guinan epoch. Its patrons are attracted by its moderate prices, its undress show. The place is Dry in that the management does not sell liquor, though it does furnish "setups" for guests who bring their...
...gigantically satiric. But Author Dos Passes has let his book speak for itself: it is not in the material but in his arrangement of it that the artist shows his hand. Author Dos Passes thinks of himself as an historian, tries to give an exact picture of an epoch...
...that is so, the new plan can be tested out gradually as a hopeful experiment, strong in promise but to be checked against experience. One may still doubt whether even the best architecture and the most carefully planned system of living arrangements can in themselves produce epoch-making change in anything which is so much a matter of growth and natural development as undergraduate life. But the fact that Yale has determined upon so radical a departure from her accustomed ways is indicative at once of the pressure of modern conditions (conditions which they have themselves helped to create) upon...