Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lingers, however, that if the novel is condemned for scientific leanings rather than for its ability to corrupt the morals of its readers, its is only because the movies and the flourishing yellow journalism of today have so unmistakably gained a superiority in the latter field. The good old era has passed when a specimen of the depraved younger generation was always painted with a box of chocolates and an exciting French novel. At any rate, it is quite evident that the present younger generation is far too impatient to seek in the endless pages of a novel those forbidden...
...Presidency at the time of the death of President Harding a man of Presidential caliber. . . . Since I last saw you the Dawes report has been made public. ... It seems to me that the plan which General Dawes has worked out will bring stability and peace to Europe and an era of sound prosperity to this country. All of which suggests to me that in General Dawes the Republican party has the ideal running mate for President Coolidge.' Replied my cousin: 'While by all of the proprieties I am denied the privilege of taking any part in politics...
...Algiers on a steep mount overhanging the city was placed, centuries ago, an image of Isis done in the blackest of black basalt. Early in the Christian Era, the image was accepted by the African Christians as an image of the Blessed Virgin...
Other changes announced include a return of the "black shoe" era for Freshmen. This ban forbidding Freshmen to wear tea shoes had been lifted by the first 1924 Senior Council which was recently voted out of office after it had abolished the annual "Flour Picture" and various other sacred college institutions...
...Appointed to this position when, as Mr. D. S. Brigham points out elsewhere, college athletics were being hotly discussed with reference to professionalism, schedules, coaches, and so on, Dean Briggs was largely instrumental in deciding the future course of Harvard athletics so wisely that, looking backwards, one sees an era of exceptional calm, and--despite occasional flashes--of general athletic good feeling...