Word: epochal
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That the world is demoralized he thinks not altogether a bad sign. "Our epoch . . . believes itself more than all the rest, and at the same time feels that it is a beginning. What expression shall we find for it? Perhaps this one: superior to other times, inferior to itself. Strong, indeed, and at the same time uncertain of its destiny; proud of its strength and at the same time fearing it." Most of his book is an analytical arraignment of the mass-mind, tyrant of the age. "The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself...
...stands for evangelism, social work, salvation. "The union of British Methodism will give a new emphasis to the great spiritual experiences to which Methodism has testified from the beginning, ever since the experience of John Wesley which came to him in May, 1738 in London and which marked an epoch in the history of the world for its demonstration of the moving power of the Spirit...
...world, for Perry's fleet in the War of 1812, for the Mexican War, for the Union Army in the Civil War.' When the steel industry began, Mackintosh-Hemphill invented much of the machinery used, shipped it from Pittsburgh to India. Japan, Australia, Russia. Belgium and other nations. Epoch in the company's venerable history was when Andrew Carnegie came to it and President James Hemphill, irked by Europe's supremacy in steel, offered to build him the greatest plant in the world on the instalment plan. That plant was Homestead Steel Works. James Hemphill almost went blind...
...Without definitely stating the fact, we have sensed that Architecture is just entering upon a Renaissance, which will probably be regarded in future histories as a great architectural epoch...
...creation of himself and Secretary Kellogg. It may be suggested that the realistic and even cynical Briand was not deceived by the glib pretenses of the pact, but even so he was eminently the man to gauge its psychological value. More important was the Locarno Treaty, which made an epoch in Franco-German diplomacy, and in which the influence of Streseman was vital. The League of Nations, though not of his creating, has taken deeply the color of his personality, and will in all likelihood continue to move, for both good and evil; along the lines which he marked...