Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish fleet which holed up in Santiago harbor was no match for the U. S. fleet, is no discredit to the bravery of Lieutenant Hobson, whose attempt to cork the harbor entrance was nevertheless a fiasco. But Reader Dohrman does not know much about his friend's era if he is not aware that two fleets were never more unevenly matched than the Spanish and U. S. at Santiago on July 3, 1898. Admiral Cervera's fleet consisted of four cruisers, three torpedo boats. One cruiser, the Cristóbal Colón, was minus her main battery...
...course, delivered by a capable lecturer, and covering the period from Homer to Demosthenes, is what is now needed. There are still many men who, having neither the time nor the inclination to learn the Greek language, still wish to become familiar with the literature and life of this era. For them as well as for the enrolled concentrators in the classics such a course would be a timely and popular addition to the roster of courses now available...
...these decisions went against the Wagner Labor Act the political hue & cry against the Court would be raised once more. If the decisions upheld the Act, they would forecast a new era in the labor relations of U. S. industry: henceforth no industry affected by this law could refuse to bargain collectively with its employes, discharge them for joining a union, force a company union upon them, or interfere with their organizing. To Labor, to industry, to politics the outcome was momentous...
History Of Era...
...scrutinizing the Permian, and the immediately following Triassic, periods, the Harvard Paleontologists are dealing with the origins of the Mesozoic era, or the 100,000,000-year "reign" of the great reptiles. Developed from hardier amphibans, the Permian and Triassic reptiles were the first forms of life able to live and to rear their young outside the water. For millions of years the descendants of these pioneer land forms ruled the earth, taking final form in some cases as the giant dinosaurs. Then the reptile domain abruptly ended, and when the fossil story resumes, after a long lapse...