Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold it back to General Hyde's son in 1905. At the top of the Wartime ship-building boom the Hydes again sold out, a move which proved very smart indeed, for by 1925 Bath Iron Works was closed down tight. It stayed closed, except for a brief period of use as a fibre goods plant, until 1927. Then it was taken over by William Stark Newell, a seasoned shipbuilder who had done a turn in the Bath Iron Works as a riveter during a summer vacation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked up to works manager...
...best writer in English on South America, his death last March evoked little more than the perfunctory tributes, compounded of respect and surprise, that seem to be reserved for literary figures who are generally thought to have been dead for years. But Cunninghame Graham was no mere Victorian period piece surviving to a cynical and indifferent age. Born in London in 1852, he was brought up by his Spanish grandmother and his Scotch father, lived through enough careers in his 84 years to make such celebrated literary men of action as Doughty or Wilfrid Blunt seem sedentary by comparison. Leaving...
...then by the Whig poets, as England's happiest age. The national min, always dominantly utilitarian, surveyed with satisfaction the concrete results of the Revolution, wrote panegyrics on its heroes, and supported Walpole, its perfect representative, in office. Yet the student of politics finds nearly the whole period of Walpole's ministry torn by bitter party and personal antagonism; to him. Walpole seems even greater as a kind of political duellist, always outwitting a pressing throng of foes, than as an enlightened national financier. Professor Laprade, in "Public Opinion and Politics in Eighteenth Century England", has shown that a study...
...which Defoe, Swift, Addison, and Steele made their contributions to what Defoe called the "Heats, Feuds, and Animosities" of their day, but becomes most absorbing in its account of the activities of the journalists who fought back and forth during Walpole's last fifteen years in office. No period can rival that one for the violence of its satire, defamation, and downright libel. There were statutes forbidding the publication of criticism of the minister's policy, but the speed laws of today could scarcely be less effective for their purpose than were they for theirs. Since they could not suppress...
...love through the swirl and, just for fun, the open-air trolley out to the Bowl. Gulping excitement before the game that lasted till Yale's second score and then died into despair but came bounding back again with the second-half surge. My voice gone midway the third period, creaking come on, come on, come on, come on. An Eli somehow in the seat ahead of us. One blue feather in a sea of crimson. Pummelling the Eli when we got our second touchdown...