Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Herbert Hoover already in Washington, the Coolidge era seemed to hurry to its close...
...fine story of Francis Joseph, the man and his times. His life spanned the era from Naopoleon to Woodrow Wilson and molded destiny...
...educational possibilities of the movies are enormous," he said. "Movies are exceedingly practicable in schools and colleges, for they furnish a means of instruction which does not the the student. The modern era is one of rapidity, and the cinema supplies instruction which conforms to the spirit of the times. Movies will be supplemented by books; books will be illustrated by movies...
...Wilbur the elder, the large-handed, the large-hearted, with the eye like the mock-turtle in Alice, caused more blush-worthy embarrassment during the Coolidge era than any other member of the Cabinet. First came the inept Wilbur speechmaking in the 1924 campaign, necessitating his recall to Washington. Then there was a series of Navy disasters ? the Shenandoah, the S-51, the S-4 ? for which no Secretary could have been held directly ac countable, but during which Secretary Wilbur handled himself so clumsily that he became the butt of worse than blamed ridicule. Pressmen made sport...
...will give the University an opportunity to hear one of her most widely read graduates. Interested primarily in the tracing of the shifting, currents of thought throughout the ages, the author of "The Medieval Mind" has the rare faculty of carrying his reader into the spirit of a bygone era without losing perspective...