Word: epochally
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...Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Lee of Fareham, secretaries were sent out of the room, the doors were closed. As palpitating Publisher Ochs afterward recorded in his memorandum, "I left this conference in a high state of elation, feeling very much complimented to be entrusted with so important and epoch-making a message...
...memorandum was shown to Lord Lee, received his approval in writing, and contains this epilog by Mr. Ochs: "I have told Lord Lee on several occasions that I hoped some day to place a wreath of laurel on his brow for having been the originator and promoter of this epoch-making event." In Cuba, tough Lord Lee was a Rough Rider with the late great Theodore Roosevelt...
...Diaghilev epoch was a long one, done almost to death by ballet enthusiasts during the past few years. Author Kirstein never knew the great impresario but from the testimony of many of his associates he has been able to paint him as a man with surly grandeur, a magnificent snarl, a staggering, penetrating, shrewd instinct. Diaghilev assembled talent which spoke for the best in music, painting, dancing. Pavlova was with him for a time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate...
...mind under capitalism. Eliot's figures are characters of the contemporary scene, caught off their guard, as it were, and snapped in some characteristic stance. In that sense only is it proper for Marxist critics to refer to Eliot as the poet singing the dirge of the capitalist epoch...
Professor Taussig's resignation from the Henry Lee Professorship of Economics after fifty-six years in the service of Harvard and twenty-five years incumbency of that chair marks another epoch in the history of the University as well as the formal ending of Professor Taussig's active teaching. From the time when he was secretary to President Eliot in the year following his graduation, Mr. Taussig has intimately shared in the growth and development of Harvard's institutions and its fame for scholarship...