Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...17th century, the war activity index is at 10, and at the opening of the 19th century, the number has risen gradually to reach 200, showing that war at this time is 200 times as intense as during the middle ages. However, during the second half of the nineteenth century, there is a considerable drop. This is the reason for the sudden appearance at this time of many theories concerning the approach of the millenium and the era of everlasting peace. However, at this time, the index number was still considerably higher than during the middle ages...
German 26a, or German Literature in the first half of the Nineteenth Century, is a course which for the average student covers this period very thoroughly. The lectures, one each week, deal in turn with the lives and works of the major dramatists and poets of the period, while the other two hours during the week are taken up with reading the best from the works of Kleist, Uhland, Heine, and a few representative poems from a dozen of the other most prominent figures of the first part of the century...
Riots continued well on into the nineteenth century, usually mere potato or bread fights, but always waged with deep grudge and flaring hate of the authorities. History relates that Prescott, the great historian, was partially blinded by a flying piece of stoney-bread; a food which conveniently supplied both the issue of the war and the ammunition. But the meek reception by the students this year of the news that the University, attempting to run its dining halls on a no-profit basis, had inadvertently made a net haul of $40,000 proves that the old-days are indeed gone...
Then came the War. Authoress Jameson has never gotten over it. Her brother was killed, most of her friends. "In 1932, what lying, gaping mouth will say that it was worth while to kill my brother in his nineteenth year? You may say that the world's account is balanced by the item that we have with us still a number of elderly patriots, politicians, army contractors, women who obscenely presented white feathers. You will forgive me if, as courteously as is possible in the circumstances, I say that a field latrine is more use to humanity than these...
...Civil War U. S. is like being there in a painfully realistic sense. Without depending very much on local color (letters, newspaper paragraphs), Authoress Herbst's story establishes its eyewitness character by almost continuous "indirect discourse," shifting its overheard speakers as the scene shifts but never losing its Nineteenth-Century tone of voice. Pity Is Not Enough is so achingly true to life that some readers may find it too drab for comfort; those who persevere to the end will admit that the title is well-chosen...