Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks from today Harvard football will enter upon a new era, when, for the first time in the Crimson's history, a non-graduate coach takes charge of gridiron activities at historic old Soldiers Field. For on September 16 Head Coach Dick Harlow, formerly of Western Maryland, will call the Varsity candidates out for their initial workout of the year...
...story, however, lies in the inescapable fact that, far from blurring its outlines, the change has merely etched them more sharply against the background of the U. S. scene. Thus, what was in 1922 a shrewd and observant novel, emerges in 1935 as a bitingly satiric portrait of an era. Alice Adams-once a typical U. S. adolescent with scarcely more serious claims on a reader's sympathy than Penrod or Willie Baxter-is now something infinitely more important and the heroine of a picture which, while it is often uproariously funny, is in effect a bitter and perceptive...
...Southwest the name of Otero is a potent one. Once great landowners, holders in territorial days of one enormous ranch that extended from Pefia Blanca to El Paso, Tex., members of the Otero family have been judges, governors, railroad builders, bankers, billiard champions, sportsmen. During the era of Western expansion, they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental in bringing the Atchison, Topeka...
...main point, however, is that the U. S. Government, by its recent formal recognition of Liberia, thus resuming the diplomatic relations which were so unfortunately interrupted five years ago, has insured a complete restoration of the era of good feeling between the U. S. and Liberia which had existed for nearly a century. I believe that this action will contribute immeasurably to the future development and progress of a nation which needs and deserves encouragement. More than this, it will tend to preserve the sovereignty of Liberia against the cupidity of foreign nations which would like nothing better than...
...dream, by famed figures, from Lincoln to Charles Sumner, so disguised as to be almost unrecognizable. They will find that the Civil War lasted not four years, but 20; that it was decided, not by superior military strength or strategy, but by a general strike; that the era of carpetbag rule in the South, far from being a period of political scandal and corruption, was ''the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen...