Word: 1900s
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...first foreign-language newspaper in America. The year was 1732; the paper, called the Philadelphia Zeitung, was aimed at the city's burgeoning German population. As the decades rolled by, the growth and variety of the immigrant press mirrored the flow of the immigrants themselves. By the early 1900s, when the boatloads of newcomers reached their peak, some 1,300 foreign- language newspapers and magazines were being published in the U.S. New York City alone boasted a cacophony of 32 dailies, including ten in German, five in Yiddish, two in Bohemian and one each in Croatian, Slovakian and Slovenian...
West moves these characters gracefully through a cross section of English life in the early 1900s. A few days after the death of Edward VII, the Aubreys endure a strained luncheon at the magnificent London house of Mr. Morpurgo. The fault is not his but his haughty wife's, who, Rose notes acidly, "made war on ease by every word she said." The young Aubreys come away convinced that Mr. Morpurgo will seek a divorce. Their mother is shocked at the notion: "Divorce! You are too young to utter the word, and there is no reason why you should...
...fragility of most of these clothes make them fancy dress only "The only time we do much business with young people is for proms and weddings," says Mary DiCicco of Atalanta She says that the store's most popular clothes continue to be white summer dresses from the 1900s...
...home of Lechmere's Point, where the British landed to begin the march to Lexington and Concord, parts of East Cambridge have become industrial wastelands, leading one city official to compare the area to "an underutilized warehouse." After an industrial peak in the early 1900s, many large manufacturers left East Cambridge, taking jobs and other residents with them...
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy tells the fascinating story of this transformation, how Blacks broke down the doors of the exclusive club that was major league baseball pre-1948. Starting with the segregation of the early 1900s, Jules Tygiel delves into the evolution of the Negro Leagues, ranges into the famous Robinson break-through with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and finishes up with a detailed a count of the ensuing full integration of the sport, and the bringing up of "Pumpsie" Green in 1959 to the Red Sox, the last bastion of lily whiteness...