Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Politicians of the Harding-Coolidge era (1921-29) the phrase "Dollar Wheat" was the sorriest raven-croak of agricultural depression. It suggested unpaid mortgages, political revolts, elections lost. When in July, 1923, wheat dropped to 96^ per bu. there was something akin to panic in Republican Washington, with wild talk that a Republican could not be elected President the following year...
...call the era America's "Buried Renaissance" is extreme; those thirty years contributed much to the future development of our civilization, but they gave us few monuments. Richardson and Roebling, Marsh, Olmstead and Eliot--these men laid the foundations on which we have built, they did not contribute, in most cases, the masterpieces associated with a genuine renaissance. What Mr. Mumford said in "The Golden Day" is more nearly true than any expression he uses in "The Brown Decades," that "a genuine culture was beginning to struggle upward again in the seventies." That culture had not then and indeed...
...about sixty-five men who govern the Outing Club, journey eight miles out to Moose Cabin, stayed overnight and then raced back to the campus next morning in a traditional event that had been dropped along with several other fading traditions which have lost importance in this blase collegiate era...
...their hearts one wrote about romantic things in a wordly way, and the other wrote upon wordly things in a romantic way. The Romantic movement gave birth to famous men, great verse, a few ideas. It has become now, not a literary study, but a psychological corpse, an era whose only refuge was a "romantic escape...
...York intellectuals, it appears, but they have changed the mentality of a whole new generation of the students of China, Japan, India and Russia. Has any of your collectors of gossip told you that the present literary period in Japan is known as Sinkurea Jidai which means "the Sinclair era...