Word: milleniums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything new, and what we did discover was apt to boomerang back on us any minute like instant communication and aeroplanes and T.N.T. That anybody was a sucker to be optimistic like Browning. That science was merely building up to a great big let-down when came the Jeansian Millenium, that everything new that came out was a new responsibility and made us more surely and completely serfs than our ancestors (probably) had been...
...international tension will be relieved and we shall all be able to live in the calm happiness of brotherhood. Love, not only of mother for quintuplets, not only of vaudeville entrepreneurs for packed houses, but love of neighbor for neighbor, man for man, will lead us to that glorious millenium for which all thinking men strive. Such proposals are but stumbling blocks in the path to progress, and the sooner they can be removed from the international scene the sooner mankind will be happy...
...Then," said the examiner, "we have a map of the Movement of Peoples in die Second Millenium. That is a little remote, is it not? I mean, it is not exactly hot news...
...spite of the most securely tied labels, express company officials state that once in a millenium a piece of express may lose its label, an thereby become automatically stranded, unless the sender has taken the precaution of pasting his name on the inside. The express company urges this final precaution to insure safe and expeditious handling...
...Douglas' gentleman who laid all the ills of the world to a faulty method of fornication, and who had invented a new and better system to remedy this was not in attendance with Mr. Shoemaker and Mr. Connelly. Surely, with their combined talents they could have brought about the Millenium in a week at the most...