Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are fabulous tales of football heroes who, after winning major clashes through spectacular and epoch making work, refused to leave their books even to attend dances with girls who travelled all the way from Northampton or Poughkeepsic for the occasion. A certain non-resident student is reported to have worn out seven pairs or pants in his Senior year on Widener's slick seats. On the other hand tradition speaks of other graduates who, in four years attendance at Harvard College spent a total of not more than fifteen of the many months in Cambridge...
...Such an epoch-making statement should not be passed over lightly. Surely this disgraceful situation cannot be known on Beacon Hill; surely if the sacred kingfish of the State House were to find out that irregularities had attended his rise to the seat of power he could not go on as the hit-and-run servant of the people. And even should he feel that he could, this new voice of the people from Dorchester would not permit it, for he has a plan--and in all fairness, it is not a bad plan...
...herself." To the reader who has won his way through the more than 700 large and closely-written pages of the volume this observation will seem no exaggeration. He will see that it was incumbent on the biographer of Amy Lowell to write the history of a literary epoch. The full measure of literary and especially poetical activity in the United States between 1912 and 1925 will have been borne in upon him and probably will have astonished him. For this was the day of a hundred schools of "Gists" and "Cists"; when the little magazines were spawned...
...vastest political document ever drawn up," consisting of 121 articles. Twenty-six secretaries working all day turned out one copy. Yet when the ceremony of signing began another cautious Englishman suddenly got cold feet, insisted on reading the whole treaty, read until midnight, then signed it and "one epoch was closed, another opened...
...President Felton was once superintendent of the Farm and Trades School on Thompson's Island. The revenues from Bumkin Island used to reach the Pockets of the President and Fellows; the annual income cannot have been much for the whole island was worth less than $1500 during its gaudiest epoch...