Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge gave credit largely to the elimination of government extravagance under the budget system, whose history is almost all within the Coolidge era. Forty-three scattered and isolated departments and bureaus were coordinated for unified effort, their expenses checked by meticulous budgeteers and initialed by a prudent chief executive...
...last U. S. beldame had long since ridden up the wind and that the rattle of wild laughter in the autumn air had never been heard since Salem, were surprised to learn of the York witches. They regarded the episode as a weird survival of savage superstition into an era of radios, mechanical birds and spiritualism, of which also there was controversial talk last week...
Horween assumed the duties of head coach at Harvard three years ago under a decided handicap. He had been called in following a gloomy era of defeat and the first two years under the new regime were marked by ups and downs. One major victory and three major defeats comprise the record of this period, during which the Harvard elevens were introduced to the Horween system. That the ultimate goal of these coaching principles was nearing attainment was revealed to followers of Harvard football during the 1928 campaign, which culminated in the 17 to 0 defeat of the Yale eleven
...novel, the drama, biography, history, sociology, criminology, anthropology and primary education have all been touched by it for better or for worse. At the present day we are witnessing a momentously critical change in the attitude of mankind. Three hundred years ago Lord Bacon formally inaugurated the scientific era, and man turned his face from God to the natural world. Today the emphasis upon the study of nature as a physical world is being to some extent replaced by an emphasis upon the study of human nature as a physical world. Backed by the methodology of science, man is setting...
...horn in the fall of that year. The news that President Dunster had become a Baptist created about the same sensation in the Colony as would be aroused in the country today if President Lowell should announce his adherence to communism. For the Baptists were the Bolsheviks of that era; their wild orgies at Nunster, and the attempt of John of Leyden to overturn the State, were known to everyone. Just so today many good people see a necessary connection between denying infant baptism and destroying the basis of society. Of course the assumption that Henry Dunster would follow after...