Word: epochal
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...need according to Mr. Bacon. Like a good businessman he brushed aside the antiquated altruism of the U. S. commission of 1900-1902 under William Howard Taft and the Act of 1902 signed by President Roosevelt, whose sole purpose was to make the islanders fit to govern themselves. "That epoch has passed forever," said Mr. Bacon...
William Lambert Richardson: Fourteen years Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, his work in the Lying-in Hospital made an epoch in the practice of Obstetrics...
...behind it a milestone in U. S. judicial history. But milestones, evidences as they are of progress, are not necessarily landmarks standing on the high places of the historical scene. Only rarely does the Supreme Court settle a case which is obviously a turning point, a judicial epoch. None the less from day to day and decision to decision change and progress are continually developing, of which the full significance may not be generally realized until later...
...history of the world where the phenomena of architecture are more interesting or more promising than they are in one United States today. A vast number of men of talent and a few men of genies are producing an architectural Renaissance in America that will probably mark an epoch in the history of the five arts. It is the purpose of the Harvard School to search out talent, to develop it, to recognize and encourage genius when it can be found, and to contribute the greatest and, if it can, the best men to the group that are advancing architecture...
...founded or rather gradually arose at a wholly unknown time and under wholly unknown circumstances."? Ploetz. The Festival of Palila, April 21, is celebrated by convention as the anniversary of Rome's foundation. Cato gives the date 752 B. C. as marking the beginning of the mythical epoch of the King of Rome...