Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onto her porch, stones through her windows. In the half-century that followed Hull House was to grow over two city blocks, become one of the biggest, certainly the most famed of U. S. settlement houses. It was also to span and partially inspire the nation's great era of private benevolence, live on into a day when many of its burdens of charity were shouldered and organized by the State...
...greatly oppressed nor did he struggle very hard. Unions thrive during periods of recovery but his first nine years in office were a period of first boom and then depression, and A. F. of L. memberships shrank steadily from 2,800,000 to 2,100,000. During that era corruption and abuse permeated several craft unions but Labor politics made it hard for Bill Green to take action even against known A. F. of L. racketeers. His crowning ineptness was that unlike John L. Lewis, he never learned how to handle the Press...
...record of this fall's entering class will be watched with interest. For if the experiment of selective admission works out as well in the Law School as it does in other divisions of the University, it should mark the beginning of a new era of improvement at Langdell Hall. And those who have felt that Harvard has not been progressing as rapidly as other schools in recent years, will be able to banish their doubts of Harvard's continued leadership. Certainly the first days of the new Deanship have started not inauspiciously...
Europe-bound aboard the Normandie was Colorado Copperman Spencer Penrose, who keeps on his Colorado Springs summer-resort estate a menagerie of lions, bears, elephants. Said he: "This country has entered a dog-eat-dog era. ... I don't mind, I got sharp teeth...
...early Wilsonian era the New Republic was the almost-official White House organ. When the U. S. entered the War it was not surprising that Walter Lippmann should be given the job of assistant to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. His experiences in Washington and abroad (where he joined the A. E. F. as captain in the U. S. A. Military Intelligence and attended the Versailles Conference as aid to the U. S. commissioners) left him with the feeling that the New Republic was a shade too theoretical. When he returned to the U. S. he soon left...