All Quotes

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'
‐‐ Bill Bryson

In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
‐‐ Jane Leavy

In 1928, radio networks like the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) extended nationwide - any major political address could expect to reach forty million listeners.
‐‐ Joseph Cummins

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.
‐‐ Hans Frank

In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
‐‐ Hack Wilson

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
‐‐ P. D. James

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
‐‐ Jack Steinberger

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
‐‐ Jack Steinberger

In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%.
‐‐ John Delaney

In 1936, when I was born in the small Silesian village of Waltersdorf in the county of Sprottau in the then-eastern part of Germany, now part of Poland, the fine structure of the cell was still an enigma.
‐‐ Gunter Blobel

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.
‐‐ Arthur Lewis

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.
‐‐ Leslie Charteris

In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British diplomat in the U.S.S.R. Disgusted by the Soviet show trials, he quit the Foreign Service and would go on to serve with Tito's partisans fighting the Germans in Yugoslavia.
‐‐ Alistair Horne

In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.
‐‐ Joe Wurzelbacher

In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.
‐‐ Leslie Charteris

In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built around manned, motorized armor.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
‐‐ Alexis Korner

In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.
‐‐ Sander Levin

In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
‐‐ Vernon L. Smith

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.
‐‐ Robert T. Bakker

In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working.
‐‐ Michael Bond

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
‐‐ Parker Stevenson

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
‐‐ Harpo Marx

In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
‐‐ Kai Bird

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.
‐‐ John Harsanyi

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.
‐‐ Andrei Sakharov

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.
‐‐ Martin Ryle

In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
‐‐ Burton Richter

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.
‐‐ Martin Ryle

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.
‐‐ Mstislav Rostropovich

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.
‐‐ George Vecsey

In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.
‐‐ Barbara Demick

In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
‐‐ Loretta Young

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
‐‐ Billy Gibbons

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
‐‐ Donald Hall

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'
‐‐ Tim Cahill

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
‐‐ Dan Hill

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
‐‐ Phil Donahue

In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being allowed to leave the country.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.
‐‐ Francois Englert