Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine is provided with valuable parts. And if the government can pay for a veterinarian's education in wartime it can certainly help to train its peacetime leaders. The United States has learned that the federal government must assume responsibility for making the economy work. It is time the nineteenth century's tag-line "equal educational opportunities" was modernized. America is the only country in the world whose educational system has no national coherence. Through the present emergency bill the national government can enter the field of education and make sure its future leaders regardless of financial status will receive...
...first time since its nineteenth century founding the historic CRIMSON will invite the ladies of the University to contribute to its pages, beginning next Tuesday evening. News stories of interest to co-eds will be the most desired form of contribution, but girls with a flair for columns or even Vagabonds may be allowed to try a hand...
President Conant investigated the frontier condition of American society during the nineteenth century to clarify the concept of human liberty specific to this nation and passed on by tradition. "Those of our frontier were not concerned with the past. They were little bothered by tradition or custom; what stability and order they possessed came from the needs of the present, not from an inherited pattern...
...When the history of American education during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries comes to be written, the development of the state-supported universities will be the dominant theme. The tremendous growth of these institutions during the first half of the twentieth century is a unique phenomenon. This growth will be recorded by historians as clear evidence that the optimistic intellectual courage born of the fifteenth century Renaissance was, five centuries later, still driving westward with undiminished vigor...
...attempt to resolve the pros and cons of the two controversies, Dr. Selekman pointed out that the problems of the shorter work-week and patent rights both are aspects of long term developments in the United States. The trend toward shorter hours, he said, goes back to the nineteenth century beginnings of the industrial revolution, and the issues raised by patent pools and monopolies are a part of the American trust breaking tradition that extends unbroken from the days of President Andrew Jackson to Thurman Arnold...