Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pock marked by war. During these periods of human strife much that is valiant and all that is evil in man is flaunted before the public. Reputations rise and fall as the years go on, but they are reputations built upon a blunder or a heroic gesture. An era of peace follows in which the nations analyze themselves, reckoning the wild abandon, of youth or a business depression as the heritage of war. During this era, men as well as nations analyze themselves and their fellows. A host of memories is foisted upon the people. Statesmen, generals, politicians...
...Origins of Art and Oriental Art at the University of Liege, and a director of the Royal Museums of the Cinquantenaire, Brussels. The lectures this year deal with the aspects of Egyptian Art in relation to the lives and habits of the early Nile-dwellers of the pre-Christian era...
...making machine, got one William T. O'Brien, a bright young mechanic, to perfect it for them. Swift thereafter was the rise of W. Duke Sons & Co. and the formation in 1890 of American Tobacco Co. with a capital of $25,000,000.? In a ruthless, buccaneering business era, Buck Duke assembled his great combine with all the gusto and smash of the northern tycoons who were putting together railroads, steel mills, oil wells, can factories. He fought historic battles in what was one of the most fiercely throat-cutting U. S. businesses. Then, in 1912, when...
...Constitution. The subject is a large one and has long demanded a candid and thorough-going treatment for the use of scholars. "Fifty Years of Party Warfare" is indubitably a notable contribution to the field of American History in combining all the varied movements of the era into a single compact volume. Mr. Lynch has displayed sound scholarship in his power to analize and synthesize his material into a consecutive and highly readable presentation...
...dominated by the two irreconcilables Hamilton and Jefferson. The bitter defeat of the Federalists inaugurated a long period of Republican supremacy coming to a tottering climax in the election of John Quincy Adams over Clay, Crawford, and Jackson. It is in the chapters on the struggles of the Jacksonian era that Mr. Lynch is most successful and brings out a series of interesting personalities and amusing anecdotes as readable as the pages of Claude Bowers...