Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church, the intricacies of modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded by a Small Group of Serious Thinkers somewhere, whose shoulders are heavily burdened by the destiny of the Universe...
...harmony both with the spiritual and physical development of the Harvard University of the third decade in the twentieth century, the latest addition to the University's scientific buildings, the School of Geography, will be a separate and integral laboratory devoted to science and built in the Georgian manner...
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Canberra, this fourth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and thirty, and in the twentieth year of His Majesty's reign...
WHEN the rest of the world was going through the throes of Renaissance revivals in architecture America was still building huts along decidedly medieval lines. With a few possible exceptions it is not until the twentieth century that we begin to take the lead, but after all, with a handicap of several hundred years, are we to blame? In the earlier days the crudest substitutes had to serve for what we consider now basic necessities. Is it then any wonder that the artistic efforts of our colonial ancestors in the field of prints were somewhat crude? This primitive handling which...
...helpful thing of their kind official England has had in a long time. One thing is certain, whatever action the British government decides to take on the Indian matter, the question of the future of this tremendous Eastern state will be one of the most important features of the twentieth century. It is a fascinating subject and Americans can not afford to shrug a disinterested shoulder at the fate of 300,000,000 odd souls. For a remarkable picture of the whole business read E. M. Forster's "A Passage To India". If this does not interest in itself there...