Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus warbled the muse of Gilbert & Sullivan in the great Gladstonian days of Liberalism.* But Fate, snickering, was even then implanting a new virus, "Laboritis," in the babes. Two infants, born to Conservative parents at the close of the Gladstonian era, grew up to political manhood, and last week vitally vexed their sires...
Professor C. H. Haskins '08, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, has his revised edition of his "History of Medieval Science" on the press, and Professor George Loot Moore's new volume is called "Judaism At the Beginning of the Christian Era." Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 has not named his new European history which is due off the press in a month...
...would be interesting to compare this man of universal interests to another man of only slightly loess universal genius Goethe. Here also was one who beside being one of the greatest if not the supreme poet of one era, was a scientist of note, and the prime minister of a principality. Indeed there seems o be a similarity between these two men of which not the least evidence is in the sincere admiration of the poet for the painter...
...fifteenth century in music was one of those periods found in all the arts when the conflicting and chaotic principles of a previous era are becoming crystalized and unified so as to become powerful to rise to great heights in the succeeding generations. It was a century when the colorful troubadours and trouveres of the twelve and thirteen hundreds were gradually ceasing, with the disappearance of cortoisie, to sing their love songs throughout the country-side. Little by little their unwritten tunes were assuming a style which at least is intelligible to the modern...
...Aviation", he declared to a CRIMSON representative, "is the greatest forward step taken by mankind since the start of the modern era. Airplanes have already reached the stage where they are commercially practicable. All the long-distance transportation of the future will be done in the air. Flying has not yet become generally popular, but it will...