Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most stubborn fact of Lenin's life was that he had achieved the world's greatest political revolution. The most stubborn fact of Stalin's was that he achieved the world's greatest economic revolution. It was a long way-the span of a crucial epoch of world history-from the Tsar's jails, police files and fingerprints to revolutionary triumph and apotheosis...
Wonderful, Epoch-Making. Britons were delighted. The press greeted the plan with a roar of approval, pushed the war off the front pages to make room for it. The Times hailed it as "an epoch-making document," the Daily Express as "a wonderful scheme." Only sour note came from the 5,700 approved benefit societies and from the industrial-insurance companies whose activities will be curtailed, if not abolished, by the plan. Said a spokesman: "We shall fight...
...were bunched as closely as piglets at feeding time, showing the sharpest competition in history. And below the leading St. Louis Cardinals, there was almost as much competition in the National League. One team and one player had especially good sporting value to offer in baseball's Ersatz Epoch...
...portrait was almost the summation of an epoch. A few months after Sargent finished it, little Osbert heard the village church bells toll for the death of Queen Victoria, and for the "sunset hour of one of the great periodic calms of history." Then he saw his aristocraticelders' lips move in bewilderment. "What shall we do now?" they said...
...with President Wilson's acceptance of that cause and Masaryk's Declaration of Czechoslovak Independence in Washington. Supported by 1,500,000 Americans of Czechoslovak descent, and by parallel Czechoslovak action in Russia and France, an aged philosopher had performed one of the major miracles of the epoch: the deliverance of a nation across 3,000 miles of water. The son of a Slovak coachman restored the pride in nationhood King Charles IV had brought to Bohemia 600 years before...