Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...species, of course, may be different at Union College; but elsewhere it is a pretty safe guess that the average run of legs and heads function as well as in the pre-Colgate era. If the two extremities of a student's anatomy be made the subject of presidential lecturing, the obvious criticism is not that students are being reduced to torsos, but that they run the danger of becoming either all heads or all legs...
...Yale Abandons Daily Compulsory Chapel," reads a dispatch from New Haven. One's first impulse is to rush to congratulate the Yale News for bringing to a successful issue its long campaign against anachronistic restrictions of religious liberty. Has a new era of liberalism at last dawned at Yale...
...plainly an era of mergers in practically every field of industry. Arnold Constable and Stewart & Co. will shortly consolidate. Seven pie baking concerns* have linked their future fortunes under the resounding title of Pie Bakeries of America, Inc. Last, but not least important, has been the proposed merger between the Huylers' stores and the F. W. Shattuck Co., operating the Schrafft chain...
...world the brutal oppression exercised by Byzantines, Tartars, Turks was, from the nature of the times, understandable enough. That the fierce hatred of the Greeks and the Turks in the present era led to minority expulsions was comprehensible, considering the semi-civilization that permeates those countries. But in Poland and Germany, whose peoples pride themselves on their culture, who would bitterly resent the slightest imputation that they were uncivilized, the mournful spectacle of thousands of Germans and Poles driven from their homes-gloomy men, weeping women and frightened children-must have caused the great Herald to draw a bar sinister...
...America, in Canada and in England nobody believes there is going to be war or counts war of that kind within the bounds of practical possibility. I am very much inclined to think we are at the beginning of a great era of peace...