Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gratifying to an American that Goethe mentions such books as Washington Irving's, "Sketch-Book" and Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography ," for example, though his death in 1832 naturally deprived him of any possible acquaintance with the more important books of the nineteenth centuary American literature. One can imagine with amusement Goethe's reception of Walt Whitman. He might very well have been disturbed in his Olympian calm by reading "Leaves of Grass...
...play, called "Hazel Kirke," was written by Steele Mackaye and is a melodrama of the latter part of the nineteenth century. It will be presented in Alumnae Hall on April...
...locate at the back one of those genealogical charts which have so often, of recent date, proclaimed an imitation of the form but scarcely the estimable ability of Mr. Galsworthy. Miss Bentley's story relates, to be brief, the textile history of Yorkshire during the nineteenth century. Of central interest, naturally, is the development of the conflict between capital and labor. And this is handled, as one might expect, through the use of conflicting families...
...Nationalism and Progress in the Nineteenth Century," Professor Brinton, Harvard...
...with energy goes back to ancient times, and cited examples of "perpetual motion" machines which have been built periodically in the hope of preventing the dissipation of energy. The early manufacturers of these machines saw no reason whatsoever why they would not work, and it was not until the nineteenth century that knowledge of the forces involved became sufficiently good, so that people began to realize that their labors were in vain. Professor Bridgman ended his address by picturing everything from the modern prize of view as being energy...