Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great purpose of the Soviet education program is to turn out a vast number of confirmed Bolshevists to man the elementary and Rabiac schools, and to carry out the technical functions in industry. Before the war Russia was the worst educated European country; the establishment of the collectivist millennium depends upon the thorough solution of this inherited burden of ignorance and incapacity...
...millennium is at hand. And oddly enough it is about to be realized, not in America, which is commonly supposed to be the home of progress and of consummated ideals, but in France. One Thomas Van Dycke has founded a theatre in Paris for his Dramahouse Players where the best productions of the American and the English stages are to be reproduced in the original tongues...
...usser is a wandering fanatic who arrived in Berlin soon after the War and announced himself as "the prophet of the millennium," "President of the United States of Europe" and "healer by the grace of God." He wanders all over Deutschland dressed in a scanty brown garment that leaves his legs bare...
...refreshing to see even such a bashful step as this taken in the right direction. Mayhap in the millennium we shall yet be allowed to witness the Braves wallop the Giants of a Spring Sunday from two to five, before we rush madly back to vespers. The legislature must be undergoing a reaction from the arid days of prohibition, and we are again to feel the personal liberty so long lost, in search of which our Pilgrim ancestors came to Massachusetts...