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1893 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Built at a moment of civic pride, the new university sprang up beside the fabled White City of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The fairgrounds featured a spectacular Standard Oil exhibit of a miniat... ●●

1893 If because of some unknown and unanticipated factor a reactor were to explode an rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If because of some unknown and unanticipated factor a reactor were to explode and throw great quantities of highly radioactive materials into the atmosphere when the wind was blowing toward Knoxville, the loss of life and the damage to health in the area might be catastrophic.” Such an accident might “wipe out all semblance of security in the project,” Groves could imagine, and it might render the electromagnetic and gaseous-diffusion plants “inoperable.”1893 Better to site plutonium production somewhere far away. ●●

1893 Better to site plutonium production somewhere far away. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Better to site plutonium production somewhere far away. ●●

1893 Information history in 1893 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story g the entries on angioplasty and Sigmund Freud. ♦ “IT HAS NEVER BEEN SPREAD OUT, YET”: Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (London: Macmillan, 1893), 169. ●●

1893 Event of 1893 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Argentine pampas, and the North American plains therefore seemed to signal the end of an era, marked in the United States by Frederick Jackson Turner’ ●●

1893 According to Bureau of Corporation’s investigators, wholesale prices fell from 1 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story According to Bureau of Corporation’s investigators, wholesale prices fell from 1893 (American Tobacco’s accounts were first consolidated in 1892) unti ●●

1893 The agricultural implement firms began to sell abroad extensively only after the rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story The agricultural implement firms began to sell abroad extensively only after the coming of hard times in 1893 reduced demand at home ●●

1893 The company continued to rely on regular meetings of the plant superintendents, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The company continued to rely on regular meetings of the plant superintendents, started in 1893, to set basic policies and procedures ●●

1893 5 For a brief time the constituent companies continued to operate independently;... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 5 For a brief time the constituent companies continued to operate independently; but after 1893 their functional activities were consolidated into the Duke manufacturing, sales, and leaf (purchasing) departments ●●

1893 The formal cartel operated from 1893 to 1902, with the exception of one year, 18... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The formal cartel operated from 1893 to 1902, with the exception of one year, 1897 ●●

1893 The company continued to rely on regular meetings of the plant superintendents,... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The company continued to rely on regular meetings of the plant superintendents, started in 1893, to set basic policies and procedures ●●

1894 Around 1894, when William Rainey Harper first proposed rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Around 1894, when William Rainey Harper first proposed a medical school for the University of Chicago, Rockefeller countered with a novel proposal for a medical department devoted mainly or exclusively to research. ●●

1894 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Such visible activism handicapped Harper in courting local business, as he made clear in a letter to Bemis in July 1894: Your speech at the First Presbyterian Church has caused me a great deal of ... ●●

1894 Felix Warburg meets Frieda Schiff in Frankfurt rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Felix Warburg met Frieda Schiff on May 5, 1894 at a Frankfurt dinner. He declared immediately he would marry her, beginning a remarkable trans-Atlantic courtship resisted by her stern father Jacob Schiff. ●●

1894 1894, a military convention was signed in which Fr... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1894, a military convention was signed in which France agreed to aid Russia if Russia was attacked by Germany, or by Austria in combination with Ge ●●

1894 1894: By 1894 it had gone through eighty-nine editions and sold 1,... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story , all well indexed. “Enquirers are referred to the index at the end,” the title page instructed. By 1894 it had gone through eighty-nine editions and sold 1,188,000 copies. “The book served as a porta ●●

1894 1894: the index at the end,” the title page instructed. By 1894 it had gone rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story the index at the end,” the title page instructed. By 1894 it had gone through eighty-nine editions and sold 1,188,000 copies. “The book served as a po ●●

1894 Event of 1894 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story vault Japan into the ranks of global powers. In 1886, after a brawl between Chinese sailors and Nagasaki police, a modern German-built Chinese warship sailed toward Japan, compelling a resolution. By the next decade, intensive naval construction and ●●

1895 A battle had been brewing since 1895, when Pierpont decided rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A battle had been brewing since 1895, when Pierpont decided not to reorganize the bankrupt Union Pacific, which he scoffed at as “two streaks of iron rust across the plains.”54 His willingness to writ... ●●

1895 He estimated that true competition prevailed in fewer rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He estimated that true competition prevailed in fewer than 10 percent of all petroleum markets and noted that kerosene prices had risen unreasonably from 1895 (when Archbold took charge) to 1906, creating widespread consumer discontent. ●●

1895 1895 European rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Even granted the high level of Japanese patriotic fervor and the memory of its staggering successes against far larger opponents in 1895 (China) and 1905 (Russia), what it was now ... ●●

1895 who called themselves physicists and the larger, associated network of chemists. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story who called themselves physicists and the larger, associated network of chemists. ●●

1895 Groves could hardly build Hanford until he knew more about the plant that would go there. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Groves could hardly build Hanford until he knew more about the plant that would go there. ●●

1895 Information history in 1895 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story aced metal staples with insulated fasteners. They attached dry batteries and speaking tubes and added spare wire to bridge the gaps. ●●

1895 He points to the relative success of Japanese administration in building institutions in Taiwan in t rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He points to the relative success of Japanese administration in building institutions in Taiwan in the years that it was ruled as a colonial dependency (from the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 to Japan’s defeat in 1945). ●●

1895 Legislative action rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With regard to the Boers’ side, Professor Quigley tells the amazing story: By a process whose details are still obscure, a brilliant young graduate of ●●

1895 Mira Wilkins, “An American Enterprise Abroad: American Radiator Company in Europ rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mira Wilkins, “An American Enterprise Abroad: American Radiator Company in Europe, 1895–1914,” Business History Review, 43:326–346 (Autumn 1969) provi ●●

1895 In 1895, just before it went into receivership, the company decided to spend a m... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1895, just before it went into receivership, the company decided to spend a million dollars to build a selling organization in the urban east, its primary market ●●

1895 In 1895 Coffin set up in Schenectady a standardizing laboratory for the company... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1895 Coffin set up in Schenectady a standardizing laboratory for the company as a whole ●●

1896 Lima Crude Oil Field Expansion rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The emergence of the giant Lima refinery accelerated the demise of Cleveland and Pittsburgh as refining centers, and by 1896 Standard Oil phased out its largest Cleveland refinery. The Lima refiner... ●●

1896 Rockefeller and Carnegie Philanthropy rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced,” Carnegie declared bluntly.43 Rockefeller was greatly influenced by Carnegie and when the Carnegie Library opened in Pittsburgh in 1896 dashed off a cong... ●●

1896 When they had burned long enough—100 days—to transmute about 1 atom in every 4,0 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When they had burned long enough—100 days—to transmute about 1 atom in every 4,000 into plutonium the irradiated slugs could be pushed out the back of the pile simply by loading fresh slugs in at the front.1896, 1897 The hot slugs would fall into a deep pool of pure water that would safely confine their intense but short-lived fission-product radioactivity. ●●

1896 Francis Walker analyzes population and immigration rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Francis Amasa Walker, superintendent of US censuses, analyzes immigration and birth rates as sources of population growth ●●

1896 27 The 1896 defeat of Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan was a so-called realigning election t rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 27 The 1896 defeat of Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan was a so-called realigning election that shifted the balance of electoral power for the next generation to a Republican majority based on business interests in the Northeast, and the splitting off of a solidly Democratic South from the rest of the populist movement. ●●

1896 In contrast to the post–Civil War decades of shifting control of Congress between the two parties, t rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In contrast to the post–Civil War decades of shifting control of Congress between the two parties, the Republicans controlled both houses and the presidency after the realigning election of 1896. ●●

1896 68 His less opinionated successor, Menelik II, brought the empire to an rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 68 His less opinionated successor, Menelik II, brought the empire to an unprecedented size, and delivered the most lasting defeat suffered by a colonial power during the nineteenth century when he crushed the invading Italians at Adwa in 1896 ●●

1896 86 Both rival candidates to fill the patriarchal vacancy in Constantinople now rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 86 Both rival candidates to fill the patriarchal vacancy in Constantinople now made enthusiastic noises about recognizing the validity of Anglican clerical orders that had been so comprehensively rejected by the Pope in 1896 in Apostolicae Curae ●●

1896 ”38 In 1896 George Eastman set up his experimental department with managers trai... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ”38 In 1896 George Eastman set up his experimental department with managers trained in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities ●●

1897 In 1897, Pierpont’s brother-in-law Walter Hayes Burns died a rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1897, Pierpont’s brother-in-law Walter Hayes Burns died and was replaced by Jack’s cousin Walter Spencer Morgan Burns. The senior Burns’s death left the London bank short of experienced hands. ●●

1897 Though Rockefeller studiously avoided the campus and visited rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Though Rockefeller studiously avoided the campus and visited only three times (1897, 1901, and 1903), he got little credit for this self-abnegation. The public was quick to pounce on his every move as yet another ruse. ●●

1897 After they had toured some pretentious “châteaux” on rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After they had toured some pretentious “châteaux” on Long Island’s north shore, Junior said that Kykuit, by comparison, was “far less elaborate than many houses we have seen” but “more perfect of its kind, more harmonious and more charming.”41 John and Abby enlisted the services of Ogden Codman, the Boston interior designer who helped Edith Wharton refurbish her Newport home and coauthored a book with her, The Decoration of Houses, in 1897. ●●

1897 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As he later explained, “I felt that at fifty it was due me to have freedom from absorption in active business affairs and to devote myself to a variety of interests other than money making, which h... ●●

1897 Standard Oil Production Committee Formed rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With Archbold at the helm, by contrast, the dividends surged, jumping to 31 percent in 1896 and 33 percent in 1897 and 1899. ●●

1897 It was true that after 1897 the pursuit of Weltpolitik was m rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was true that after 1897 the pursuit of Weltpolitik was motivated to a considerable extent by the calculation that this would be politically popular and divert attention from Germany’s domestic-pol ●●

1897 Thomson demonstrated that the beam of glowing matter in a cathode-ray tube was not made up of light rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Thomson demonstrated that the beam of glowing matter in a cathode-ray tube was not made up of light waves, as (he wrote drily) “the almost unanimous opinion of German physicists” held. ●●

1897 Event of 1897 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ation of Afghanistan has been achieved by foreigners only unintentionally, when the tribes and sects coalesce in opposition to an invader. Thus what American and NATO forces met in the early twenty-first century was not radically different from the s ●●

1897 Nelson Mandela as president symbolized the commitment to a Christian reconciliation when rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nelson Mandela as president symbolized the commitment to a Christian reconciliation when he proclaimed that the old Afrikaner national anthem Die Stem (‘The Call’) should continue to stand alongside the serene Xhosa Christian hymn written in 1897 by ●●

1897 The only specialized nonoperating officer he consulted was the head of the legal... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The only specialized nonoperating officer he consulted was the head of the legal department—an office formally established only in 1897 ●●

1897 In addition to a sizable patent and law department, the company added in 1897 a... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In addition to a sizable patent and law department, the company added in 1897 a publicity bureau whose task was to publicize broader developments within the industry as well as within the company ●●

1898 Year 1898: As a young soldier in 1898, he had charged the Der rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As a young soldier in 1898, he had charged the Dervish lines at the decisive Battle of Omdurman that secured Sudan as a British colony. During World War I, he helped conceive the i... ●●

1898 Lueger Christian Socials showcase German and Christian art rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Lueger Christian Socials showcase German and Christian art ●●

1898 Roosevelt called his critics “futile sentimentalists of the interna... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Roosevelt called his critics “futile sentimentalists of the international arbitration type” who exhibited “a flabby type of character which eats away (1898) ●●

1898 ’ (implying that it really should be) as long ago as 1898. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ’ (implying that it really should be) as long ago as 1898. ●●

1898 In 1898, a friend, architect William West Durant, defaulted rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1898, a friend, architect William West Durant, defaulted on a loan and signed over the rustic camp as payment. Deep in the woods, Camp Uncas crouched beneath wooded cliffs that were thick with ever... ●●

1898 In 1898, over his heated protest, the navy conscripted Corsa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1898, over his heated protest, the navy conscripted Corsair II for use in the Spanish-American War. The Morgans had opposed the war, and Jack (later labeled a warmonger for his role in World War I)... ●●

1898 As Jack told his mother of one 1898 ocean voyage, “JPM has b rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Jack told his mother of one 1898 ocean voyage, “JPM has been so worried and bothered by the number of things on his mind and this annoyance of war rumor that it will be a great thing for him to hav... ●●

1898 When Jack arrived in 1898, his father gave him and his wife, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Jack arrived in 1898, his father gave him and his wife, Jessie, the use of 13 Princes Gate. Pierpont added 14 Princes Gate to the property and joined the two townhouses. ●●

1898 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story (The trust’s share of American crude production peaked at 33 percent in 1898.) By narrowing the range of competition in oil production, the move hastened the day of political reckoning for Standard... ●●

1898 Letter from Nina to Jim rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Letter from Nina to Jim Loeb—April 16, 1898. 24. ●●

1898 1898, France and Great Britain had been on the ver... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1898, France and Great Britain had been on the verge of war over Egypt. ●●

1898 when Rutherford first turned his attention to the phenomenon Henri Becquerel found and which Marie C rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story when Rutherford first turned his attention to the phenomenon Henri Becquerel found and which Marie Curie named radioactivity, and 1911, when he made the most important discovery of his life, the young New Zealand physicist systematically dissected th ●●

1898 ics, especially illnesses. This research can take two rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ics, especially illnesses. This research can take two paths: 1. Testing of all twins in a specific geographic area, done at our institute by Miss Liebmann. All twins in the Frankfurt district back to 1898 have been listed and almost all have been examined; she discussed some interesting cases in sev ●●

1898 The first year that the company was listed at 111 Fifth Avenue was 1898 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first year that the company was listed at 111 Fifth Avenue was 1898 ●●

1898 It first centralized the administration of its productive facilities, and then i... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It first centralized the administration of its productive facilities, and then in 1898 purchased two leading liquor wholesalers ●●

1898 As indicated by Poor’s “List of Officers Operating Railroads” in the Manual of R... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As indicated by Poor’s “List of Officers Operating Railroads” in the Manual of Railroads for the United States for 1898, the Erie, the Reading, the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Southern all had a centralized form of organization ●●

1899 US reaches peak number of state and national banks rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1899 there were fewer than 12,000 state and national banks in the US, at the beginning of an era of rapid growth in banking. ●●

1899 Where the trust had pumped 32 percent of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Where the trust had pumped 32 percent of American crude oil in 1899, its share had slumped to 14 percent by 1911. Even Standard’s historic strength in refining dipped from an 86 percent market share to 70 percent in the five years before the breakup. ●●

1899 Standard Oil Production Committee Formed rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With Archbold at the helm, by contrast, the dividends surged, jumping to 31 percent in 1896 and 33 percent in 1897 and 1899. ●●

1899 Indeed, as the twentieth century wore on, the Afrikaners turned their military rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Indeed, as the twentieth century wore on, the Afrikaners turned their military defeat by the British in the second Boer War (1899-1902) into a gradual rebuilding of Afrikaner ascendancy, removing what political rights had existed for non-whites in so ●●

1899 In 1899 it purchased a leading Japanese producer, and two years later it bought rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1899 it purchased a leading Japanese producer, and two years later it bought manufacturing companies in Germany and Britain ●●

1899 48 In 1899 his firm, the Boston Fruit Company, became the core enterprise in the... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 48 In 1899 his firm, the Boston Fruit Company, became the core enterprise in the United Fruit Company, which, in addition to its distribution system, came to own a fleet of refrigerated steamers and a vast acreage of plantations in the Caribbean region ●●

1900 Capitalist development indeed produced the "great divergence," led rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Capitalist development indeed produced the "great divergence," led by Great Britain, between the economic power of societies in western Europe and els... ●●

1900 The covert coups of the Cold War era were carried rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The covert coups of the Cold War era were carried out quite differently from the invasions and stagemanaged revolutions that the United States used in (1900) ●●

1900 The most shocking death was Coster’s, in March 1900, at age rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The most shocking death was Coster’s, in March 1900, at age forty-eight. He contracted flu or pneumonia and died within a week. ●●

1900 Mixing sympathy with outrage, the New York Times charged tha rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mixing sympathy with outrage, the New York Times charged that the tasks piled upon Coster had grown “far heavier than any one man ought to bear, or could bear with safety.” Naming Morgan partners who ... ●●

1900 Generous contributions by Morgan and other bankers to the ca rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Generous contributions by Morgan and other bankers to the campaign of William McKinley—23 Wall Street was hung with banners in his support—were thought instrumental in persuading him to champion the g... ●●

1900 Sir Clinton Dawkins called the chancellor, Hicks-Beach, “not rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sir Clinton Dawkins called the chancellor, Hicks-Beach, “notoriously stupid and most unbusinesslike.”13 The Boer War financing of 1900 had disquieting effects in the City. ●●

1900 In 1900, he signed up as a partner Sir Clinton E rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1900, he signed up as a partner Sir Clinton E. Dawkins, a distinguished civil servant who had just completed a tour of duty in Egypt and was about to become a finance minister in India. ●●

1900 They wanted to avenge a 10-percent wage increase granted the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story They wanted to avenge a 10-percent wage increase granted the miners in 1900—a deal that Pierpont had helped to broker—and reacted to the strikers with feudal ferocity. By the fall of 1902, schools wer... ●●

1900 JPMJ, Box 6, Folder 3, letter to Frances Tracy Morgan, January 2, 1900 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 45. Winkler, Morgan the Magnificent, p. 284. ●●

1900 Rockefeller regarded his fortune as a public trust rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rockefeller regarded his fortune as a public trust, not as a private indulgence, and the pressure to dispose of it grew imperative in the early 1900s as his Standard Oil stock and other investments appreciated fantastically. ●●

1900 After he took over the class from Charles rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After he took over the class from Charles Evans Hughes in 1900, the number of young men in attendance at once quadrupled from 50 to 200 and ultimately reached 500, including many bookkeepers, clerks, salesmen, and students. ●●

1900 With Archbold at the helm, returns soared from rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With Archbold at the helm, returns soared from 21 to 27 percent between 1900 and 1906. This might have been smart business but it was very poor politics: The trust was booking record profits just when it could least afford to enrage public opinion. ●●

1900 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1892, Gates joyously proclaimed to Rockefeller, “Our denomination has a larger, better distributed, better organized, and more efficient educational property than any other denomination in Ameri... ●●

1900 Standard Oil Asset Acquisition rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1900, Rockefeller had acquired 1,600 acres and eventually the Pocantico Hills estate expanded to 3,000 acres, threaded by dozens of miles of winding roads and bridle paths. Rockefeller could tol... ●●

1900 Rothschild New Year Celebration at Mentmore rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A New Year's Eve gathering at Mentmore brings together leading Liberals and Conservatives to celebrate the Rothschild family. Rosebery's emotional toast moves Natty to tears. ●●

1900 leaped into the first rank of world banking, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story leaped into the first rank of world banking, its balance sheet expanding from assets of 46 million marks in 1900, to 127 million marks in 1914. ●●

1900 Viewed solely in terms of political culture and rhetoric aro rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Viewed solely in terms of political culture and rhetoric around 1900, this is a hard claim to detect: Russian and Austrian anti-Semitism was at least as strong as German, French chauvinism as marked a ●●

1900 The empire also underwent much industrialization in these de rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The empire also underwent much industrialization in these decades, though the pace of change was perhaps swifter before 1900 than after. Its coal production by 1914 was a respectable 47 million tons, ●●

1900 As the international tensions built up in the decade or so a rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As the international tensions built up in the decade or so after 1900, the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s strategical position appeared parlous indeed. Its internal divisions threatened to split the countr ●●

1900 Despite the Triple Alliance, the tensions with Italy became rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Despite the Triple Alliance, the tensions with Italy became greater after 1900, and on several occasions Conrad advocated a military blow against this southern neighbor; even if his proposal was firml ●●

1900 Between 1871 and 1900, France had added 3 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Between 1871 and 1900, France had added 3.5 million square miles to its existing colonial territories, and it possessed indisputably the largest overseas empire after Britain’s. Although the commerce ●●

1900 As the twentieth century approached, therefore, the pace rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Although the major development of the fifty years after 1900 can thus be seen as the coming of a bipolar world, with its consequent crisis for the “middle” Powers (as referred in the titles of Chapter ●●

1900 1900 Economic rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story in 1900 = 100) 472.6 178.4 Because of the “lag time” between turning this economic potential into military effectiveness, the immediate consequences of the American entry into the... ●●

1900 1900 European rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Despite superficial fascist indoctrination, nothing in Italian society and political culture had altered between 1900 and 1930 to make the army a more attractive career to talented... ●●

1900 1900 Diplomatic Agreement rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The coalitions which Britain had woven together to counter Napoleon, the successful ententes and rapprochements which had been effected in the years after 1900, could no longer be ... ●●

1900 1900 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the Social Darwinistic and imperialistic atmosphere that had prevailed around 1900, it was easy to think that all power was being concentrated in fewer and fewer capitals of the... ●●

1900 1900, that figure had declined to 9.7 percent. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1900, that figure had declined to 9.7 percent. ●●

1900 1900: Howard Aiken (1900–1973) at Harvard in 1945. John Mauchly (1907–80) ci rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Howard Aiken (1900–1973) at Harvard in 1945. John Mauchly (1907–80) circa 1945. J. Presper E ●●

1900 Event of 1900 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With no trace of self-consciousness, he presented the war that had established America as a great power in two oceans as a uniquely unselfish mission. “The American flag has not been planted in foreign soil to acquire more territory,” he explained in ●●