Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Listening to Mr. Roosevelt," he said, "has been like listening to a radio station from which the announcer gives forth epoch-making news and appeals to patriotism, interspersed with advertisements for soft mattresses and efficient laxatives...
...first artists were the Cro-Magnon men, whose earliest culture-period is called the Aurignacian. The newfound cave at Montignac represents this glimmering dawn-culture on the vastest scale yet found. Its significance, says U.S. Prehistorian George Grant MacCurdy, is that the appearance of art "marks a distinct epoch in mental evolution." The Abbe Breuil calls the Montignac cave "the Sistine Chapel of Aurignacian...