Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal strike admittedly is a tough nut to crack, but certainly it would not improve matters to plunge into another era of extravagance, resulting in an in- adequate supply of coal. The broad impersonal back of Uncle Sam looms up invitingly enough; but every indication points to complete failure if he assumes the job. At least that has been the result of every previous attempt of his and his neighbors in this direction on the American Continent
Sometimes we are tempted to believe in the irony of Fate; especially when, in the intense pre-examination era; Christopher Morley sees fit to ask, in his "Colyum" in the Evening Post (New York), "Why is it that a man who went to Harvard or Yale never forgets it?" To the undergraduate it seems almost like adding insult to injury to put forth such a question at the present time; there are certain days and nights indelibly impressed on our memories--and the shadow of the Widow we have always with us. The waters of Lethe are many miles away...
...death of Prince Yamagata is generally considered an indicator of the end of an era, the decline of the Genro, and with it that deep-rooted reverence for elders and superiors which has been a characteristic of the Japanese race...
...Eddy has published several works, including "The Supreme Decision", followed by "The Awakening of India", "The New Era in Asia," "The Students of Asia", "With Our Soldiers in France", "The Right to Fight", and finally his latest work, "Everybody's World". These books deal with conditions in the Far and Near East and show also America's relation to the problems of the world...
...most of the present difficulty, and when it gives way to the feeling that it is worse than a disgrace to behave in a manner which could possibly be construed as unsportsmanlike or ungentlemanly, the troubles which so cloud the horizon now will disappear of themselves and the era of sport for sport's sake and not for trophy will...