Word: continentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In his book published by the Viking Press in 1964, Jones explores the development of American culture from the discovery of the new continent to the Jactsonian period. He believes, as he says in his preface, in "the profound and central truth that American culture [arose] from the interplay of...
The Swedish company with the tongue-twisting name of Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget is known throughout the world chiefly for its sturdy, roly-poly automobiles, which bear the company abbreviation, Saab. Few outside of Scandinavia are aware that Saab is also one of the Continent's largest aircraft producers and...
For all its charm, this Broadway show tune makes an oddly off-key conclusion to a sequence that began on uncharted seas and in that vast, primeval, nearly empty continent. This sums up both the virtues and the faults of Morison's volume. It does present the incomparable sweep...
Graduated Gifts. Ward was the son of a wealthy New York banker. He spent four frolicsome student years in Europe, lumbering about the Continent in a huge carriage fitted out with sleeping accommodations for two. Returning home, he married the granddaughter of John Jakob Astor, then the richest man in...
Caricatured on the Continent as camera-toting innocents abroad, the first postwar wave of American tourists descended happily on gay Paree. They weren't quite as dumb as Europeans liked to think, but France was still an unexplored territory. And with prices low compared to the U.S., the early...