Word: nineteenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shorter stories of the nineteenth century would not support such intense interest. Today a whole story can often be read in the waiting room of a dentist. But the readers of the Boston Traveller know that men and women of English speech have not lost their appreciation for a two, three or even five month romance at least...
Although Japan's latest franchise law, just promulgated, barks back to the nineteenth century, the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the plebiscites of Napoleon III, it serves as a reminder that Japan still copies. She now has most of Europe's political features, a constitution, militarism, world-wide diplomacy, and universal suffrage. She has amply proved her descriptive trilogy, "adept, adopt, adapt...
...history, particularly the early history, of the colony and state of Massachusetts, have given him an intimate knowledge of the history of Harvard since its foundation by the early pioneers in the midst of a wilderness, through the stormy days of the Revolution, and down through the nineteenth century, when Harvard was transformed from a little New England college into a University of international proportions...
...Trevise, a noted French art collector and connoisseur, will give an illustrated lecture in French at Fogg Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The subject of the lecture is "Three Sculptors of the Nineteenth Century--Rodin, Rude and Carpeaux." The lecture will be open to the public and no tickets will be required for admission...
...Trevise has gathered a splendid collection of art treasures which is especially notable for its valuable paintings by Gericault, a painter of the early nineteenth century who is best remembered for his magnificent "Le Radeau de la Meduse" (1819) and for his earlier military paintings...