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Word: 1920s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just want to keep it," Darling said, addingthat the warrior symbol has been a Rindgetradition since the 1920s...

Author: By Johanna B. Berkman, | Title: City's School Committee Debates Warrior Logo | 11/29/1989 | See Source »

Since the 1790s, the U.S. has imposed severe restrictions on immigrants, culminating in the 1920s in the so-called Exclusion Laws targeted largely against Asians. These restrictions were not lifted completely until the mid-1960s. Asians began settling America in the early 1800s and some have lived in the U.S. for several generations...

Author: By Juliet E. Headrick, | Title: Asian-Americans Still Stereotyped | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

...Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House engagingly shifts vintage Gershwin to 1920s Harlem. Tony winner Ron Richardson (Big River) stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 6, 1989 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

CROSS OF FIRE (NBC, Nov. 5 and 6, 9 p.m. EST). Romance, murder and revenge -- you'll get it all in this fact-based mini-series about the rise and fall of a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Indianapolis. Starring John Heard (Beaches, Big) and Mel Harris (thirtysomething...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 6, 1989 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Wolves roam through our racial memory, howling beyond the firelight, scaring the hell out of us. But they no longer roam in Yellowstone National Park, except as rare transients, prowling south from Canada. The last resident wolves in the big park were exterminated by Government hunters by the late 1920s. That was a time when animals were thought to be good (elk and bison, for instance) or bad. Wolves had been pursued in the West as if they were not merely bad, but evil. Cattlemen lost entire herds to harsh winters, then spent enormous, irrationally large sums of money taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Park The Brawl of The Wild | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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