Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being celebrated this week marks the close of a half century of intelligent progess in the education of women. Starting from obscure beginnings and having as assets only the ideals and hopes of its initiators, Radcliffe weathered a long period of financial worries, at last to emerge into an era of large endowments and prosperity. No college for men or women in the country can today boast of higher standards of scholarship and attainment than can Radcliffe...
Violent opposition to progressive ideas brings them all the more into the lime-light, and although all new things must face a long period of controversy, birth-control knowledge cannot help but become more general in a future era of increasing economic pressure as well as greater freedom of speech...
...been one James Burkitt, a rangy Alabaman and self-styled "Jeffersonian Democrat." Not a candidate himself, "Jeff" Burkitt sought to "sell good government" to Jersey City. His loud, vote-swaying cry was against the exorbitant taxation which has driven many a manufacturer out of Jersey City during the Hague era...
...announcement last Friday to the Freshman polo team that it would play Yale within a week, before a single day had been devoted to outdoor practice, is the capstone of a long era of mismanagement and lack of cooperation between the Athletic Association and the polo management...
...Senators in favor, one Senator undecided, one Senator sick and not yet sworn in. With the outcome so uncertain, Vice President Charles Curtis braced him self for the emergency of having to vote to break a tie. How would he vote? asked Senators under their breath. In the Coolidge era, as Kansas Senator and presidential candidate, he had voted once for and once against the equalization fee, of which the debenture plan is the equivalent in the Hoover era...