Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schevill writes: "We waited about twelve hours aboard the ketch Era, whose name well reflects the leisurely ways of her personnel, while the fishermen sobered up and got ready for sea, and finally landed here after a ten hour trip spread over a day and a half.--We hope they come back for us before we have to take to distilling sea water.--Dr. Allen and I have enjoyed ourselves muchly--this seems rather like breaking the hotel hoodoo--and I think we're getting a pretty fair collection, at least of the land Vertebrates. . . We have managed enough...
...great educational figures of the day. Yet who would be willing to take the first step in a new and dangerous direction? The signal honor fell upon Exeter, when Edward S. Harkness, with superb generosity donated millions to the Academy last fall to inaugurate an entirely new era in secondary school education. The super-generous gift of Mr. Harkness was doubtless inspired by the feeling that the cultivation of the individual was being neglected in the effect to improve the mass...
...appearance he personifies the Southwestern statesman of a past era. Full-bodied, he has slender legs and phenomenally small feet. His face is round and soft, yet handsome. On his wavy black hair, worn longish, he pulls down an oldfashioned, broad-brimmed black felt hat. His clothes are dark and a trifle tight. Black bow ties cover his collar button. An instinctive politician, he has a ready smile, a friendly chuckle, hosts of one-name friends. He is a Knight of Pythias, Son of the American Revolution, Methodist Episcopalian (South), all in good standing. He smokes cigars, chews...
...readable chronicle of the 1920's you may be surprised at the number of events you had almost forgotten, more surprised to see that "the eleven years between the end of the War with Germany and the stockmarket panic which culminated on November 13, 1929" is "a distinct era in American history...
...resentment, for one fears that the writer is setting out to display a large and scholarly knowledge of the period under his pen. But none can condemn him for not at once setting his readers at ease. Nothing is more difficult than disentangling a reader from his own era and transporting him back to times gone before. One is compelled to praise the crescendo of appeal developed by Mr. Colby as he travels westward, eastward, southward, and finally Westward. Only by a genial perusal of dark pages and the vagaries of his own adventure in America could the author have...