Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writes with such a fluid style, it does not seem surprising that he accumulated the unusual total of three Bowdoin Prizes while completing the manuscript for The Dream of Success. But it would seem on first glance that he has wasted his ability on a collection of early twentieth century writers who are rapidly becoming obscure. Of his five novelists, only Jack London and Theodore Dreiser have achieved any sort of place in literature, while the following of David Graham Phillips, Frank Norris, and Robert Herrick is meagre at best...
...works occupy only three cubic feet of space instead of a good-sized room. The reduction of size is due to the replacement of bulky vacuum tubes by 800 tiny transistors and 11,000 germanium diodes. All of them together need only 100 watts ) of current, less than one-twentieth of the power required by a comparable vacuum-tube computer...
First they formed Republic Air Coach System to handle the financial end, then bought up four small nonscheduled lines with valid CAB letters of registration-Twentieth Century Air Lines. Trans National Airlines, Trans American Airways, Hemisphere Air Transport-to supply planes and pilots...
...great wars of the twentieth century have come close to destroying altogether Congress' power to commit the country to war, except as a mere formality. The United States was virtually at war, chiefly on Presidential initiative, long before American forces entered either World War on Congressional authorization. The most striking recent instance was, of course, President Truman's decision to send American troops into Korea on the grounds that they were participating in a "police action" to prevent war, not in an act of war itself. No official Congressional authorization was ever given to Truman's actions except for whatever...
...food was not the only topic to arouse interest. A demand in the early twentieth century to include the names of Harvard's Confederate dead next to those of the Union created intense controversy. Such Northerners as Charles Francis Adams prevented the move by suggesting that the Confederates build their own memorial at Harvard "when it can be a genuine expression of a universal sentiment...