Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster House Bookshop now has on show finely bound books of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from collections of Augustan poets to the woodcut books of Clare Leighton...
...question is not one of information, in the sense that a scientific dispute would require, for a strike is not a scientific dispute. It is a symptom of a very real and a very serious disease, which students, before anyone else, had analyzed in the middle of the nineteenth century, and which they have fought ever since, unassisted by college deans or gendarmes...
...universal brotherhood of man shall have been accomplished. In the course of this discussion Mr. Fruchs finds occasion to inveigh against such specific evils as the over-emphasis of athletics, the philosophies of Plato and Nietzsche, the plight of the Nottingham weavers at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the place of women in modern society...
...conservatively eloquent over the manifold virtues of the depression in eradicating the weak and inefficient, etc., Mr. J. M. Keynes approached him afterward and said, "There is only one word to describe you. You are a sadist." Dr. Sprague is a primitivist whose primitivism extends back only to the nineteenth century. Along with many other learned economists of our time he yearns for a world which exists no more and insists upon an attitude which can only seem uselessly scholastic...
...country form which the cries of the Suffragettes have passed away, their work done and accepted, only a small infrequent voice over is heard ruing the day that the franchise was slipped into the untrustworthy hands of women. The Nineteenth Amendment sleeps in peace, awoken only occasionally by the clamor of a daring article in its honor appearing in the Sunday supplements of the New York papers. But in Spain it is yet a new and exciting thing. Just a year ago women suffrage was proclaimed, and today its proclaimed are aghast at the results; the hand that...