Word: 1750s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessary and honorable. But, however bountiful materially, isolation now seemed spiritually bleak. The Swiss were quietly but unmistakably heavy-hearted about their prosperity. On their 655th independence day they felt as Voltaire did, when from his Swiss refuse at Les Délices he viewed the Europe of the 1750s...