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We should not be here. We don’t wanna be here. We didn’t ask to be here this is something that we were forced into, listening to the reports and everything that’s taken place in this country, this here will not be swept under the rug. I’ve said this before: This is not the 1920s, not the 1930s, the 1950s or ’60s or ‘70s. We stand for something different. No disrespect to those that have walked the way for us and for us to be here, to have a voice. And we’re absolutely thankful. But we’re not going – at all. We’re not going. – Amir Locke	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The diversity of tools is fantastic. In the 1920s, the site produced some of earliest handaxes ever discovered in Britain. Now, for the first time, we have found rare evidence of scraping and piercing implements at this very early age. – Alastair Key	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you go back into the 1920s and thirties, it was Jews that were excluded as a definite category. And there was an interesting study done several years ago where someone wrote to the medical schools of the various medical schools around the country, and they acknowledged the fact that they had limited the number of Jewish applicants that they would accept. So … we totally reject this, we think that admission to medical schools should be based on merit and merit alone. And that and there are plenty of African-American students who are highly qualified and are worthy of admission to medical school, and they should be admitted to medical school if they so desire to enter medical school – but on the basis of the fact that they've achieved what they've achieved, not because of some desire to create some sort of quota system in medicine where every medical school class perfectly reflects the population in the United States. And even if one tries to do that … it ends up excluding many people – typically South Asians and East Asian individuals are the ones who end up getting excluded. – Stanley Goldfarb	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Known in the 1920s as ‘Goddess of the Silver Screen,’ Dolores Costello was one-third of the first great family of movie stars, her father, Maurice Costello, was the first screen heartthrob, her sister Helene starred in the first all-talking picture. – Terry Schulman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
She talked in depth and wonderful detail about [Elbe's] art and also extraordinary things about that period. How architecture had gotten more feminine with Art Nouveau, how the notions of gender were beginning to change in the 1920s, with women's clothing becoming more boyish and haircuts getting shorter. She was just so articulate on so many subjects. – Eddie Redmayne	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We decided to resurrect one tram car from the 1920s, it has a very unique design. – Antoine Sambin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We had the same thing happening in Germany in the 1920s with people being roughed up by the Brownshirts and they deserved it because they were Jews and Marxists and radicals and dissidents and gypsies — that was what Hitler was saying, i'm not saying Trump is Hitler, but the logic of condoning violence against those who oppose you -- you can imagine, a man who would condone it as a candidate -- what would he do as an official president? – Steve Ross	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It was used as a Christian church ... and then as a mosque until the 1920s, so it's really an example of the type of synchronism of religion that ISIS is seeking to destroy. – Erin Thompson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The gap between the very rich and everyone is wider than at any time since the 1920s. The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time, it is the great economic issue of our time and it is the great political issue of our time, Sanders roared, before thousands of supporters in Burlington, the liberal city he once served as mayor. 'Enough is enough. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I mean, (my character) certainly can't keep going, to my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We're into the late 1920s. – Maggie Smith	Found on CNN 9 years ago

We should not be here. We don’t wanna be here. We didn’t ask to be here this is something that we were forced into, listening to the reports and everything that’s taken place in this country, this here will not be swept under the rug. I’ve said this before: This is not the 1920s, not the 1930s, the 1950s or ’60s or ‘70s. We stand for something different. No disrespect to those that have walked the way for us and for us to be here, to have a voice. And we’re absolutely thankful. But we’re not going – at all. We’re not going.

– Amir Locke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The diversity of tools is fantastic. In the 1920s, the site produced some of earliest handaxes ever discovered in Britain. Now, for the first time, we have found rare evidence of scraping and piercing implements at this very early age.

– Alastair Key

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you go back into the 1920s and thirties, it was Jews that were excluded as a definite category. And there was an interesting study done several years ago where someone wrote to the medical schools of the various medical schools around the country, and they acknowledged the fact that they had limited the number of Jewish applicants that they would accept. So … we totally reject this, we think that admission to medical schools should be based on merit and merit alone. And that and there are plenty of African-American students who are highly qualified and are worthy of admission to medical school, and they should be admitted to medical school if they so desire to enter medical school – but on the basis of the fact that they've achieved what they've achieved, not because of some desire to create some sort of quota system in medicine where every medical school class perfectly reflects the population in the United States. And even if one tries to do that … it ends up excluding many people – typically South Asians and East Asian individuals are the ones who end up getting excluded.

– Stanley Goldfarb

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Known in the 1920s as ‘Goddess of the Silver Screen,’ Dolores Costello was one-third of the first great family of movie stars, her father, Maurice Costello, was the first screen heartthrob, her sister Helene starred in the first all-talking picture.

– Terry Schulman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She talked in depth and wonderful detail about [Elbe's] art and also extraordinary things about that period. How architecture had gotten more feminine with Art Nouveau, how the notions of gender were beginning to change in the 1920s, with women's clothing becoming more boyish and haircuts getting shorter. She was just so articulate on so many subjects.

– Eddie Redmayne

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We decided to resurrect one tram car from the 1920s, it has a very unique design.

– Antoine Sambin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We had the same thing happening in Germany in the 1920s with people being roughed up by the Brownshirts and they deserved it because they were Jews and Marxists and radicals and dissidents and gypsies — that was what Hitler was saying, i'm not saying Trump is Hitler, but the logic of condoning violence against those who oppose you -- you can imagine, a man who would condone it as a candidate -- what would he do as an official president?

– Steve Ross

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was used as a Christian church ... and then as a mosque until the 1920s, so it's really an example of the type of synchronism of religion that ISIS is seeking to destroy.

– Erin Thompson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The gap between the very rich and everyone is wider than at any time since the 1920s. The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time, it is the great economic issue of our time and it is the great political issue of our time, Sanders roared, before thousands of supporters in Burlington, the liberal city he once served as mayor. 'Enough is enough.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I mean, (my character) certainly can't keep going, to my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We're into the late 1920s.

– Maggie Smith

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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