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...late 1920s, the Houses were conceived as imitative of the Oxford and Cambridge college systems. In tradition-bound England, there are colleges dominated by would-be lawyers, or replete with aspiring historians or oversupplied with fledgling economists...
Kilson likened the groups rhetoric to "thefascist and Nazi ideological witchcraft thatengulfed Europe and Western civilization itself inthe 1920s-1940s...
Robertson quickly learned, of course, why there was only one woman ahead of her who had been able to claim the highest honor in the profession. The book tells the story of the Times women, from McCormick in the 1920s, who was hired after the death of Times founding publisher Adolph Ochs (who had refused to hire women while he was alive), to the women of the present. The newsroom which Robertson entered in 1955 was one entirely unwilling to help her realize her dreams; the few women who were allowed into the Times, she tells, were relegated...
Matzke says that 65 percent of Yale's buildings were constructed during aten-year period in the 1920s and 1930s. Sincethen, they have not received sufficientmaintenance work, she says...
...hard-to-pronounce appellations of the territories, like Georgia and Central Asia, that they added to their polyglot empire. Thus, the ancient Azerbaijani trading city of Gyandzha became Kirovabad to honor Sergei Kirov (he got a ballet company too), who headed the Communist Party in the republic in the 1920s. Nizhni Novgorod was renamed Gorky, for the chronicler of the working class, Maxim...