Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Atlantic -- "John Marshall," by Professor J. B. Thayer. "The Reconstruction Period: The Freedmen's Bureau," by W. E. B. DuBois...
...dissect a man's personality. Personality defles analysis, and books follow the personalities of their authors. To understand the characteristics of a piece of writing, one must be acquainted with the prevalent styles of the time and with the politics and current history of the period under discussion...
After the period of the Danish invasion, learning among the West Saxons had almost entirely disappeared, and the greatest works of the time were written in a language which the majority of the people barely understood. In an attempt to decrease this evil and make it possible for the common people to have the benefit of the greatest books and best literary production of the time, King Alfred began two distinct tasks. He wished first, to restore the lost learning; and secondly, to put the great books of the world into the mother tongue of his people. The actual work...
...Freshman basketball team defeated Lynn High School in the Gymnasium last night by a score of 21 to 13. From the beginning the Lynn team seemed outclassed, and at the end of the first period the score was 13 to 4 in favor of the Freshmen. At the beginning of the next half the school team made a noticeable improvement and scored three goals in two minutes of play. This was, however, only a temporary spurt...
...have covered but a very small part of the territory, and the valuable archaeological relics scatte red over the rest of it are being destroyed or carried away by business companies or by the Arab traders. The country has been the scene of some of the greatest events and periods of the world's history, and traces and records of these periods, now being obliterated, could be brought to light by careful scientific search. Caverns hewn in the rock and various stone implements of a prehistoric age have been discovered, and relics are often found of the period...