Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dawning. Squarely he faced the fact that A. T. & T. was a monopoly but boldly set out to convince the public that a monopoly, at least in the telephone business, was a good thing. U. S. industry has grown far more monopolistic than it was in the trust-busting era in which the great telephone man lived, but it has produced no Theodore Vails to lead it to popular acceptance...
Whether the New Deal stays or goes, it must be admitted that the era when American business was a "free lunch counter" can never return. Business is being played more and more according to rules, imposed from both within and without. The elements of luck and audacity count for less than they did in former times. In such a game a man thoroughly trained in the best tactics of the business world will achieve the highest score...
...progressivism or radicalism probably hasn't bathed for weeks, that a Phi Beta Kappa winner is either a major trickster or a greasy grind, and no compromise about it; that a prof under forty-five is a fellow who couldn't make a business success in the boom era, while a prof over forty-five is a harmless oracle . . .", et cetera. But to these axioms if Mr. Hale will add that supremely ubiquitous one about ". . . it's the friendships you make," he will have described a constant just as true at Princeton of Terwillinger...
...modern "era of communication," universities and university trained men must grasp the responsibility of guiding public opinion more and more. But unless the universities can keep clear of governmental interference and maintain the right to think and speak what they believe regardless of popular prejudice, training men to guide the people will become little more than a mockery. To preserve their vital liberties, universities depend on the support of the press. It is encouraging to find a leader of the newspaper industry awake to the need of guarding academic freedom and dedicating at least one section of the press...
Progress and Advance are what U. S. railroads are now going in for heavily to resell the public train travel. The Century's two new cars marked Pullman Co.'s boldest innovation in design since the Pintsch gas era. An articulated unit made of alloy steel and aluminum, Advance & Progress together weigh no more than one standard Pullman...