Word: eras
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this optimistic era of increased industry and large earnings the number and amounts of gifts have been in proper proportion to the remarkable prosperity of this country. Never before have wealthy Americans, who have accumulated many times an ordinary fortune during the last two years, made such liberal donations to educational and charitable institutions. Columbia University shocked the public when President Butler asked for the modest sum of thirty million dollars. Already nearly two thirds of this amount has been promised and the remainder is practically assured. Other colleges and universities all over the country are asking for gifts...
...just awarded a prize to the legal treatise of Lindell T. Bates, written in French, on the conflict of American treaties and state laws. This is the first time in years that a foreigner has received this scholastic honor from France. It is a recognition that when the era of treaty revision begins after the war foreign countries will look toward this work as an authoritative source of information on American treaty law. It will take rank in foreign international law circles with a celebrated one written some years ago by a Rumanian on the Danube River Commission. The Harvard...
...accustomed; for emphasis is placed upon the acting rather than upon the husk of the production. An attempt, is made to get away from present-day realism--to turn to simpler more imaginative forms which have a charm of expression that characterizes the strolling players of the Elizabethan Era. A feeling of intimacy is established between actor and audience...
...matter what party wins at the coming election, it is my sincere wish and urgent hope that the victorious party will usher in a new era and will be instrumental in bringing America to the Fore in such a way that her words will be respected both by herself and by other nations...
...article written for the Daily Princetonian recently, discussed the attitude taken by Yale regarding the retaining of high-salaried coaches. The Yale Athletic Committee advocates dispensing with professional instructors and developing all athletic teams "without such artificial stimulants or eliminating intercollegiate athletics altogether, until the dawn of an era of reasonableness in such things...