Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hepburn characterization of Trigger as a queer, hot-tempered warmhearted hoyden is wasted on the picture. In mood and manner Spitfire belongs to an obsolete era in the cinema. Typical shot: Trigger describing a lout who has tried to kiss her as "consared Son of Satan...
...week in 180 U. S. and Canadian newspapers began Charles Dickens' The Life of Our Lord, completed in 1849 for the private pleasure and instruction of his children. Its publication, after 85 years, was regarded by United Feature Syndicate as one of the big news scoops of the era. When, after two weeks, the 14,000-word story is completely published, the last jot of Charles Dickens' work will have been made public...
...straw in the wind, it vindicates the optimism raised by President Conant's report; but the era of impersonal education, hack teaching, and crowded classrooms demands a greater reform than the reorganization of a single department...
Harvard has rolled dizzily in Harkness millions. Harvard has watched some hundred thousands in Krueger and Toll swirl gently into a financial maelstrom. But through New Era and New Deal, oblivious to both, fingers of steel have clasped the purse-strings of Lehman Hall. To the undergraduate, Arthur L. Endicott has been the symbol of an impersonal and mechanical bureaucracy, a vague object for resentment about high room rents, and monotonous food, and broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white...
...declaim in measured tone, to weigh each gesture carefully, to poise and balance gracefully upon the stage may once have been the aims of public speaking, but they are relics of an era that considered what was said less important than how it was said. The Lee Wade and Boylston contests have been lauded for encouraging public speaking, and an interest in great orations. Public speaking certainly has its place in the modern scheme of education. But the public speaking that is merely parrot like elocution is designed only for those who will in later life be well supplied with...