Word: epochally
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...reporter and a veteran Chevrolet workman climbed into the car. The reporter stepped on the starter, drove off the assembly line, turned the lights on & off, honked the horn. The strident little beep, echoing through the acres of suddenly silent machinery, signaled the end of an epoch in U.S. industrial history...
...first gun in the Bruening epoch of "government by presidential decree," which weakened parliamentary democracy and hastened the rise of Hitlerism. When the Reichstag rebuked him for these Notverordnungen, Bruening asked von Hindenburg to dissolve the parliament and call an election...
...there evergreens in the South, oaks in the North? Botanist William Spinner Cooper of the University of Minnesota studied fossil tree pollens in peat, concluded that "in America the climate following the glacial epoch was warm and dry, with a return to a cooler moister climate during the last few thousand years." Thus the cone-bearing evergreens of the Southern U.S. are relics of the glacial invasion (which halted at the Ohio River), and the North's oaks and other hardwoods are relics of the warm postglacial period...
...became an ardent imperialist, wrote "an epoch-making memorandum on colonization and sea power." As anonymous as the Nazi emissaries of the pre-war days, von Ribbentrop or Otto Abetz, Father Joseph wandered about Europe, apparently a poor itinerant, actually the center of a power government, whose designs on its neighbors he furthered through countless contacts and intrigues...
...extraordinary learning and intellectual curiosity, his superb teaching ability, these and other things made him for decades an outstanding figure in English and American scholarship. To those of us who were both his students and his colleagues in the English Department his death marks the end of an epoch...