Word: origin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were no marks on the photographs or the paper to indicate the origin of the portraits. Parents had no way of telling whether the picture signified their son actually wanted a shirt...
...flares up in English literature like a volcanic eruption. In that one year were published (wholly or in part) Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Thackeray's The Virginians, George Eliot's Adam Bede, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Darwin's The Origin of Species, Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubciydt of Omar Khayyam. Almost ignored in the rush was a novel named The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, by one George Meredith. Today, nearly a century after, both Meredith and his Ordeal are still little more than names in an English syllabus, read...
With the changing generations, historians alter their interpretations of past events. Historian Francis Parkman, writing in the 18505, thought of the westward movement in the U.S. as the story of man's impact on nature. Frederick J. Turner, writing 50 years later, saw pioneering as the origin of U.S. individualism. A modern U.S. historian, Columbia University's Allan J. Nevins (The Ordeal of the Union), speaking in Dearborn, Mich, to the Society of American Archivists, discussed some added meanings of the modern era in U.S. history-"the emergence of America to the leadership of the Western world." Said...
...only John Dewey and William Heard Kilpatrick and their ideas had never existed, then education would be far better than it is ... Your war should not be directed against educators who are earnestly attempting to improve the profession but against conditions which foster substandard teaching . . . Substandard teaching has its origin in the community, not with John Dewey...
...Zulus could tell Dr. Botha nothing about the child's origin, save her name. She could not speak a word of English and the Bothas could only communicate with her through their Zulu kitchen boy. Mavis, however, loved her soft mattress and liked salads better than the Zulu putu (porridge...