Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago pompous Manager Gatti-Casazza resigned, retired to Italy with his wife. As General Manager he was succeeded by Edward Johnson, a trim, smiling man of progressive ideas who promised a new era in operatic production. Among other heralds of the new day came slick-haired Russian Balletmaster George Balanchine. With his youthful American Ballet corps, Balanchine was expected to give Metropolitan audiences a taste of what up-to-date operatic ballet was really like...
...twice since Stanley discovered them in 1888. One of the eeriest regions known to man, the upper slopes of Ruwenzori "comprise a world of their own-a weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori, Mountaineer Tilman admits that he and his companion, Eric Shipton, lost their way, their tempers, and almost their lives-in addition to which he dropped his camera, broke his wrist watch, while...
Said Mr. Ford: "Nothing that has occurred during the last few weeks has changed my belief that a prosperous era is ahead...
...interesting to note that the subjects selected by the two winners were resurrected from the era that produced the judges. A fine delivery of the modern verse of T. S. Eliot, and an eloquent presentation of the modern speech of a Southern Senator, went sadly unrewarded...
...modern era of Materialism most men believe that the individual life ceases with death; to them Immortality is something that exists apart from the single mind. It was the Industrial Revolution which crystallized the middle-class notion that Work is greater than the Soul and caused the forgetting of personal Immortality. The purpose of Work is to improve the world for posterity; the modern way of life is the identification of self with the Work of the world. The unity of work transcends in importance the labor of the individual. Thus in this period the person cannot become eternal; only...