Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More specific was the charge of Dr. Elizabeth Gourlay, a London school doctor. Said she: "We have never had so many multiple boils, sores, rashes and scurvy. . . . With regard to vitamin C, we have been reduced to an almost 18th-Century plight...
...root of their bitterness: "A caste system inherited from Frederick the Great of Prussia and the 18th-Century British Navy [which] is hardly appropriate to the U.S.," a caste system "connoted by the words 'enlisted' and 'commissioned...
...specimen ... is of the period of 1907 to 1914. The inverted pipe curl (not gutter, as stated) was conceived, not by a madman . . . but by a master born out of his time, like Picasso. He visualized a market of individualists, and his vision was inspired by deep study of 18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist, and his creation . . . was, alas, only transitory. By some mischance not readily accounted for, this type of hat was overlooked by Mr. Churchill, and I have always felt that neglect from...
...Author Max White fluttered the critics with a first novel (Tiger Tiger) about the life and lively loves of a fictional U.S. artist. Now he has romanticized the life and livelier loves of a historical tartar-Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, Spain's famed 18th-Century etcher and painter...
Thus, in the 18th year of the Era of Enlightened Peace, an ideological hara-kiri was committed on the anachronistic body of Shintoism. For Japan and all the Far East the consequences of Emperor Hirohito's proclamation might well be profound...