Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Spain. Results of that 100-day conflict: 1) Cuba got its independence, 2) the U. S. paid Spain $20,000,000 as a fair price for the Philippines, 3) Spain handed over to the U. S. as an indemnity the Islands of Puerto Rico and Guam, 4) the Era of Manifest Destiny dawned as the U. S. launched its first important colonial program with foreign races...
...furrows of Aprilia," bellowed II Duce, "are made in the victorious time of our African enterprise, the 14th year of the Fascist era, and the 160th day of the unfair economic siege against Italy which increases the disorder and misery of the world...
...George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney professor of English Literature, "Kitty" to many Harvard generations, picks up his books and papers from the platform desk in Harvard 6, and, lecturing all the while to his English 22 class, walks slowly down the aisle, it will mark the end of an era in American scholarship...
...Noah Webster, jun., esq. (as he signed himself, to the ribald delight of his lighter-minded contemporaries) was too ambitious to be tripped by ridicule. In the era of vacillating reconstruction after the Revolution he saw his didactic chance, made it his patriotic duty. He launched his first Speller as a Yankee privateer against the King's English: "I have too much pride to stand indebted to Great Britain for books to learn our children the letters of the alphabet." A good salesman, he toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse...
...Manhattan she developed into one of the most fabulous sob sisters of the gaudy, pre-War journalistic era. She covered many a killing in & out of Manhattan, sobbed her way in print through so much murder testimony that a courtroom bromide attached itself to her: "Dorothy Dix has arrived. The trial may now proceed." By 1908, Dorothy Dix's feature ("Dorothy Dix Talks") was appearing daily...