Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Spain on payment of $20,000,000 under the Treaty of Paris (Dec. 10, 1898). William Jennings Bryan campaigned for the Presidency on that issue in 1900. William Howard Taft got his political start as the islands' first civil governor. Democrat Francis Burton Harrison proclaimed a "new era" when in 1913 he arrived to govern them. The Jones Act of 1916 declared: "It is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government...
...arrival of H. R. 13,312 before the House was an awful moment for the U. S. Drys, Consolidated. To them it marked the end of an era during which their power over Congress and the country had been practically supreme. The great dam they had built against the "liquor traffic" had cracked, they were helpless to stem the ensuing flood. Their six-vote victory over Repeal in a nominally Dry House was a portent of defeat in the coming Wet one. The Wets, on top for the first time as a result of the election, did not exult...
...there would be something incongruous in Dink Stover's making his hideous blunder of giving two girls a lift in a straight-eight roadster, so Frank will look just a thought uncomfortable in the polo coat and pleated trousers of contemporary collegiate fashion. While he flourished mightily in an era when undergraduates sat along the campus fence and sang "Integer Vitae" and "Freshmen, Wake" of an evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more ingenuous...
...histories of President Lowell's administration which have appeared have dwelt upon its logical coherence. It seems clear that it will be known not as a more series of years, but as an era, a chapter in educational development. The same was true of President Eliot's administration. The sequence of the two is not unlike the transition from laissez-faire to "planning and control" in the economic world. But whatever the central idea under which President Lowell's several reforms can best be included, there is no doubt that each step was the natural and proper sequel to what...
...England in the Napoleonic Era," Professor Abbott, Emerson...