Word: epochal
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...presentation of the returns. No partiality will be shown whatsoever, every effort being made to give this great service to the voters of the University and of the City of Cambridge in such a manner that all may gaze, react, and instantly understand the full import of the epoch-making events that will be portrayed...
...true that the horrible epoch of the "process themes" (i.e. "write on something which you fear") seems to be disappearing, but the mordant vestiges still crop up occasionally. And the reading, soundly conservative though it be, usually bears little relation to actual composition...
There are fabulous tales of football heroes who, after winning major clashes through spectacular and epoch making work, refused to leave their books even to attend dances with girls who travelled all the way from Northampton or Poughkeepsic for the occasion. A certain non-resident student is reported to have worn out seven pairs or pants in his Senior year on Widener's slick seats. On the other hand tradition speaks of other graduates who, in four years attendance at Harvard College spent a total of not more than fifteen of the many months in Cambridge...
...Such an epoch-making statement should not be passed over lightly. Surely this disgraceful situation cannot be known on Beacon Hill; surely if the sacred kingfish of the State House were to find out that irregularities had attended his rise to the seat of power he could not go on as the hit-and-run servant of the people. And even should he feel that he could, this new voice of the people from Dorchester would not permit it, for he has a plan--and in all fairness, it is not a bad plan...
...herself." To the reader who has won his way through the more than 700 large and closely-written pages of the volume this observation will seem no exaggeration. He will see that it was incumbent on the biographer of Amy Lowell to write the history of a literary epoch. The full measure of literary and especially poetical activity in the United States between 1912 and 1925 will have been borne in upon him and probably will have astonished him. For this was the day of a hundred schools of "Gists" and "Cists"; when the little magazines were spawned...