Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey, Mississippi, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Illinois, Rhode Island and Connecticut, all with legislatures sitting, jockeyed for second and third honors in performing a Federal function. Nebraska's Senator George William Norris, who has fought long and hard to reform Congressional dates fixed in the stage-coach era confidently expected to have the 36 necessary State ratifications soon after next January when the Legislatures of 44 States meet...
...interested in House athletics, the innovation presages a new era in intra-mural rowing. House crew practice has hitherto been characterized by annoying confusion. Coaching has been in the hands of one man and his part time assistant; second and third crews have received little attention; due to indifference and lack of organization seatings have seldom remained intact more than a week. The Eliot House plan will help to remove these discouraging handicaps. If crews are coached by one man and able to maintain a reasonable permanence in their personnel, a valuable esprit de corps will appear. The new plan...
...true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation. . . . What other great, purely human .institution, devised in the era of the stagecoach and the candle, has so marvelously grown and survived into this epoch of the steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...
...Hyatt Hutton, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., a Gingerbread Castle for Wheatsworth Cracker Co. and the New York School for Social Research, his most successful building to date. Between times he keeps up with his stage work, designs furniture, lace curtains, trunks for Hartman, an automobile for the New Era Motors, and dress fabrics. A convivial soul,'he can work 16 hours a day and still find time for champagne suppers, Viennese songs, beautiful women. His wife is a New York Beegle. He keeps eight shepherd dogs in the country, and gives two Christmas parties a year complete with...
...stadium. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt made a speech: "It is an evidence of the age of our modern civilization that the Olympics date back nearly 2,800 years. ... I hereby proclaim open the third Olympic winter games celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era." Greek athletes, before their Olympic games, swore to compete fairly and to the best of their abilities. Modern Olympic athletes also have an oath, to recite which the U. S. committee selected Jack Shea, 21-year-old Dartmouth sophomore, speedskater and son of a Lake Placid butcher. While the other athletes...