Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade and most of the hot air has leaked out, from his standpoint if not from that of the crowds. The charge of over emphasizing the sport cannot be laid at his door. At Harvard the days of torchlight parades, read flares, and mass meetings, outlived the mole-skin era in football pants, but not by long...
When the police function properly, it is creditable but unexpected. So accustomed has the public become to reports of violent deaths that the ability of the police to prevent these for twenty-four hours has become a subject of journalistic recognition. Before the era of the racket, policemen protected the lives of citizens and thought nothing of it. Now, in return for work well done, the ego of the "force" must be soothed by public exhibition of a record, quite possibly issued before the turn in the tide could bring any bodies back up the river...
...Thomas Alva Edison would never have uttered those words. He did not stand off and criticize the men of his era. He exemplified to the highest degree such U. S. qualities as the following...
...materials? shreds from a fan, red hair from an assistant's beard. Thousands of invention ideas he tried, worked on, cast aside. He said that when an experiment seemed impossible of solution, that was the time to show interest, not discouragement. His was a standard phrase of the era: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration...
...20th Century era of titanic corporations Adams calls "The Age of the Dinosaurs." Says he: "It is probable that the dinosaurs passed because of lack of brain power. The difficulty of supplying our modern economic monsters with sufficient power of intellectual direction at the top has already become evident." He thinks Roosevelt "undeniably the greatest Republican President since Lincoln." For Wilson he reserves higher praise: "Here once more was the authentic voice of the great American democracy; here once more was the prophet speaking of the American dream, of that hope of a better and richer life...