Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Planctosiual Theory of the Origin of the Earth," professor Mather, Geological Museum...
Down in flames amid a thunder of exploding bullets came Springfield, Ill.'s huge, old National Guard Armory last month. Only clue to the $750,000 fire's origin was a small boy in leather jacket and tweed cap who that morning had reported to the custodian a small blaze in the armory's washroom...
...Early American History at New York University. In taking this view of the settlements and those who made them, the author defends his plan in the Preface by saying that "The men who founded the colonies were Englishmen, the incentives that impelled them to migrate were English in their origin and the forms of colonial life and government they set up were reproductions or modifications of institutions already established and conditions already prevailing in one way or another at home." Therefore the "first duty of him who would write of our colonial beginnings" is to determine the characters and ideas...
...there was not a building, a teacher, or a pupil to which the historians might point as the beginning of the University that celebrates September 3, 1636 as the date of its origin. On that day, no official document was issued, no plans were laid, and no founders gathered around a council table...
Professor Spargo's task is the classification and tracing of the legends; he does not inquire into their psychological motivation, not does he attempt a history of the mediaeval literary criticism of Virgil. That task he has performed with examplary industry; each legend is tracked down to its written origin, and for the commoner of them he has provided a wealth of chronological tables and documentation. The most tenacious of the legends represented Virgil as an humiliated lover, suspended in a basket from his mistress' window. This appeared, in varying forms, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with...