Word: epochally
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Sadly, the attempts at mighty characterization fall short of fulfillment, the whole theme is much tool superficially treated and vast as the film is in its sentimental aim, "Our Dally Bread" turns out to be no epoch-making work...
...Ohio town during the later buggy and moustache cup period, only a few decades removed in time, but centuries away in spirit. The peg-top trousers and bombazine gowns, the town drunkard and the cruel banker, even the glorious extravaganza at the local "opera house" all bespeak that happy epoch before the pestilence known as Radio had standardized our American scene...
Last week's examination given to 530 students in a first-year survey course in the humanities, set an "open book" record for youth and number of examinees. A sample question: "Is Hellenistic science or medieval science nearer akin to the science of the Newtonian epoch? In what ways?" A question TiMEreaders should be able to answer without notes: "Give one example of a case where...
...from Baring, Metternich, Talleyrand, and Ledrantz, was actually abandoned when Rothschild depressed the market on government bonds; the family's system of branch banking was not Mayer's idea, but that of his brilliant son, Nathan; instead of Nathan, it was his descendant who was knighted, during the Gladstone epoch; the romance between Wellington's aide, Fitzroy, and Nathan's daughter, Julie, and the great friendship of Wellington and Rothschild are fictitious...
Most encouraging evidence that the jazz epoch has become history is the improved quality of the current radio broadcasts. Not that the ether is purged to a dull intellectualism, as those who have listened to recipes for cheese custard, and Swedish discuses, will be the first to deny. We still have our "mauvaises quatres d'heure" of advertising belch, Irish minstrels, and Poet Princes...