STUFF
THE LONG-AGO 20th CENTURY
THE LONG-AGO 20th CENTURY
This term applied to many female activists of the early century is from Latin for "right of voting"
suffragette
U.S. island bearing the name of a Polynesian demigod
Maui
Thoreau wrote, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different" one of these
drummer
This genre of country music is fittingly Kentucky's state music
bluegrass
In 1944 this teen wrote, "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart"
Anne Frank
This predecessor to the U.N. met for the first time in November 1920
the League of Nations
Baltic capital 600,000 strong
Riga
Sounding like a part of a saddle, it means to beat with the fists
pummel
An early example of this hysteria occurred during the Palmer Raids in 1919, which targeted anarchists & other leftists
The Red Scare
In "The Story of My Life", she wrote of the coincidence of one of her ancestors being "the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich"
Helen Keller
Announced in a 1947 speech, this president's "Doctrine" provided the basis for U.S. Cold War policy
Truman
Archipelago nation about 1,300 miles north of Auckland
Fiji
Certain naval vessels must attain negative buoyancy in order to do this
submerge
She's a golden ticket holder & champion gum-chomper in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Violet
Thomas Edison gave us, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent" this
perspiration
The 1998 Good Friday Agreement helped quell decades of violence in this U.K. country
Northern Ireland
Major industrial river valley region of northwest Germany
Ruhr
In Finnish, this celebration of the longest day of the year is called Juhannus & is a national holiday
midsummer
Near Newark are communities known as East, South & West this
Orange
"Throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet" was part of her dissent of dismantling the VRA
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ford's 1913 adoption of this continuous workflow process reduced the time to build a car from 12-plus hours to 1 1/2
the assembly line
Colorado ski resort town in Eagle County
Vail
The Latin for "increase" gives us this 7-letter word meaning to enlarge in size or strength
augment
Some of the oxygen we breathe is created by these of division chlorophyta, which can be single celled
green algae
In 1983 he predicted that "The computer will become the predominant medium of communication"