Word: epochally
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...announcement yesterday of the modifications in Tutorial instruc-the Economics Department is about to begin this into force, the lead which History gave in starting the "modified Tutorial" system had been followed, and indeed surpased. The developments which the Economics Departmen is about to begin this year are not epoch making, but they represent another step forward in the slow transition of the Tutorial System as it first existed at Harvard...
Finishing touch to "curing me of my epoch" was added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight...
...payments still go on. The U. S. has yet to be repaid over $12,000,000,000 in War loans-and the question of whether it ever will remains unsettled. But last week, 20 years after the U. S. entered the War, one phase of the 1917-19 epoch was definitely ended...
Three days later in his west side Manhattan hotel, weak from influenza and nervous collapse, aged Critic Henderson stopped writing an essay on Pianist Josef Hofmann, placed a .38 revolver in his mouth and with one bullet completed the ending of an epoch in U. S. letters...
...passages of the mother. It excites an inflammation so intense that in many cases the eyes are irrevocably lost before it can be controlled. The discovery made more than half a century ago, that the organisms causing this inflammation could be made innocuous without injury to the sight, was epoch-making and the simple measures recommended for this purpose are now used in every civilized community throughout the world. They are employed in every public hospital as well as by private practitioners. These methods have reduced blindness during the last 25 years from 26% to less than 7% in children...