Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mind evolves. Date of these cave paintings is about 30,000 B.C.-the Paleolithic or Early Stone Age. It was a glacial epoch: the last continental ice sheet, retreating from northern Germany and Britain, still covered Scandinavia. The Alpine and Pyrenean glaciers shouldered far out into the adjoining plains; all Europe was cold, ranged over by reindeer, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses (see cut, p. 50). Here, arriving probably by migration from North Africa, homo sapiens first appeared in Europe. The Cro-Magnon race inherited or seized the valleys of the small-brained, beetle-browed, long-armed, chinless and nigh speechless homo...
...were the intellectual forebears of Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini. They were the intellectual forebears of nearly everybody else in the Western world too. And, says Author Barzun, "it would be hard to find in the whole history of Western civilization a corresponding trio to share the honors of a single epoch with such perfect parallelism...
...editors, that we have become so bundled up with Britain. Certainly the defense drive has carried with it anti-laborism and undemocratic hysteria; certainly the dollar-a-year men are making every penny count in the defense of their class interests; certainly the American Century is not an epoch most democrats would enjoy living in. Whether one can do more than just regret, now that the United States is so thumpingly committed to lend-lease and its corollaries, is unhappily doubtful...
...microphone was turned over to Stanley O. Beren '41, chairman of the Lowell House Dance Committee. After about five seconds of dead silence a blast of cheering and music from Lowell House came over the air and the epoch-making program was under...
...epoch-making wave of liquidation last week hit the market of one of the nation's lesser known commodities. If the U. S. Government abolished its cotton-loan plan or its ever-normal granary for corn and suddenly undertook liquidation of the 10,800,000 bales of cotton or 490,000,000 bushels of corn now held off the market, the decision would be no more extraordinary than that taken last week in another commodity...