Word: epoch
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...more receptive to new influences than their elders, unconsciously responded more immediately to changing conditions of time and circumstance. After the war, sensing the general relaxation, they let down, while their elders still held blindly on. Presently they felt the coming of what is hoped will be a new epoch and lifted up their eyes to the hills while the old generation was still perplexed with doubt and question. It is within the bounds of possibility to surmise that another five years will see on both sides a restoration of harmony and a renewal of understanding...
...hope that in a nearby day some great, prescient genius will arise and sing the songs of that great epoch, linking Gettysburg with Chicamauga and Nashville with Franklin in one grand epic poem...
...born Lajos (Louis) Kossuth; it was the same year in which the great Napoleon Buonaparte was made Consul for life, that thin edge of the wedge that was to secure for him the designation "Emperor of the French" and much legendary glory. It was the epoch immediately preceding that in which the spectre of the die-hard Austrian Chancellor, Prince Metternich, was to stalk eerily throughout Europe, scattering all but good, honest supporters of the Holy Alliance...
...Premier Briand, at Nantes, said that election day, May 11, would be an epoch in the annals of the Republic. "It will weigh on the destiny of France for many years accordingly as the Deputies sent to the Chamber are really free men or otherwise. It will also have an effect throughout the world," he asserted. He continued that what: he most dreaded for France was isolation, which had been so disastrous to her in 1815 and 1870. He denied that he was the intransigeant enemy of Premier Poincare and stated that he would have taken the same measures...
This is what Mr. Wignall has to say of the institution of which he writes the life history: "there have been few epoch-making changes in the two hundred odd years that have passed since pugilism first became a recognized trade. I do not call it a sport. . . . Professional boxers are tradesmen. They whirl their fists to purchase expensive cars or else to buy coffee-stall suppers...