Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold W. Dodds, President of Princeton, declared: "In this era of such rapid extension of the functions of the state throughout the civilized world, of times with little pause to consider all the circumstances, conferences organized along the principles of this one are of unique value. The method by which controversial matters are approached and disposed of is a lesson to those who despair of democracy...
Speaking of the early history of the Supreme Court he mentioned that for over a century its Justices had to ride circuit. That, he interjected, meant actually riding on horseback, so it might be called the pre-horse-&-buggy era. Newshawks guffawed. He continued reading...
...could exist in this 20th Century world of machines and mass production, as if we were still living in the 19th Century world of individual enterprise! I tell you Democracy is only a mask for Capitalism, which clings desperately to the outmoded forms that allowed it free play. "The era of Capitalism is over! Here in Italy it is finished, it is dead.* If by democracy you mean government for and in the interests of the people then our system and ours alone is truly democratic...
Griffith's "The New York Hat", produced in 1912 and numbering such immortals as Mary Pickford, Lional Barrymore and Lillian Gish in its cast, will be the first film shown. Ince's. "The Fugitive", a ruthlessly tragic drama that ushered in the peculiar "Western" era, follows...
...nation's honor can only be wrested from it and it can not be the object of barter. But with this declaration I wish to announce that the era of so-called Surprises has been concluded. As a State with equal rights, Germany with the fullest loyalty will henceforth do her share in settling European problems and in solving such problems as may concern not only ourselves but other nations." Only spectators who know both Germany and Hitler could fully appreciate the fervor of this declaration by Der Führer or the fervor of the response evoked...