Word: someday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauty, and a deplorable neglect of the fundamentals of workmanship. . . . There have been arid epochs before this, such as the Victorian and its equivalent across the Channel in the Paris of Napoleon III. . . . Mediocrity in those days had a stupendous vogue. Modernism is but repeating history. It will someday prove a kind of Victorian 'dud,' with a difference, obviously, but a 'dud' just the same...
...vote of 29 to 15. He lived to write the famed Dred Scott decision (1857) which voided the Missouri Compromise, denied Congress the right to abolish slavery in the territories and thus helped to advance the Civil War. Senators warned that Chief Justice Hughes might someday write a decision on an economic question as pregnant with awful consequences as was the Dred Scott decision...
Gary. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 69, of Brooklyn, may well have a medal named for him someday. A prolific inventor (gyrocompass, gyrostabilizer, airplane "Mecaviator," superpower searchlights, airway beacons), he holds over 400 patents, some 12 important awards and decorations. Last week, honoring his method of nondestructive detection of flaws in steel rails and bars, he was first to receive the American Iron & Steel Institute Medal, given by the Institute in memory of its late Founder-President Elbert Henry Gary...