Word: epochal
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...Force's pride of achievement was dulled by the fact that it had not succeeded in guarding the secret of basic aerodynamic design which had opened up the supersonic speed zone. The Air Force' could and did keep secret the speeds which had been attained in its epoch-making flight...
Turning from France's political crisis, Paris' Franc Tireur wrote gravely: "It was a happy day for those wise individuals who, in this epoch, still take the time to breathe and know how to combine with grace the futile and the agreeable...
...voluptuary" whose battle against his own lavish, romantic sensuality was a lost cause from the start, and whose passionate fairy tales suffered the horrible fate of being engorged in a "beetle-browed about-face toward dictatorship and terror." Yet Wagner, too, Mann insists, was an idealist of "the epoch of bourgeois culture," a "man of the people who all his life long . . . repudiated power and money, violence and war." Nazi use of Wagner's "folk and sword and Nordic heroics," says Thomas Mann, "are but unworthy plunderings from the Wagnerian vocabulary. . . . German Spirit was everything to Wagner, German State...
Gustavus Myers in History of the Great American Fortunes . . . says Washington's fortune, at death, amounted to only $530,000. That is a considerable fortune for that epoch...
...world's "reactionaries," i.e., the U.S. and Britain. This time the warning was contained in a ten-page article in the Soviet Government's official magazine World Economics and World Politics. It was modestly titled: "Features of the Internal and Foreign Policy of Capitalist Countries during the Epoch of the General Crisis of Capitalism." The author: Professor Eugene Varga...