Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassadorship last year because of poor health, the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter chortled, "His departure is a gain for the pacification of Europe and exorcises the baneful Versailles spirit he fostered. Lord Tyrrell was a man of yesterday who simply could not understand that a new era had dawned." Last week, on being informed of his new job, Watchdog Tyrrell said: "I go to the pictures perhaps once, perhaps twice a week. . . . Why, I saw one last night-very good, too. I have no particular taste; in fact I like most of them. There is a very good...
...clear," Professor Perry remarks, "that James did not, like Hall, accept the experimental psychology of his day as marking the advent of the new era. This was clearly not what he was looking for! It is true that he had from the beginning, and never lost, a respect for facts. He distrusted speculation in vacuo, abstract dialectic, and learning from books. . . . But James felt, as we have seen, a growing distaste for experimental psychology owing to physical and temperamental reasons. He lacked the strength to spend long hours in a laboratory; a recurrent lumbago prevented his standing, and trouble with...
...more need priceless works of art be devoured by revenous bugs and worms. A lethal chamber, installed by the Fogg Art Museum for fumigation purposes, has inaugurated a new era in the career of old treasures...
Ernest Hoffman will conduct the orchestra, officials of the ERA, sponsors of the program, announced...
...previously known, from dredged-up samples, that the surface of the Shelf was rock laid down by sedimentation in the Cretaceous era, 70,000,000 to 100,000,000 years ago. With no knowledge of how deep this layer was, it was thought that it thinned out eastward, exposing at or near the edge of the Shelf the basic granite foundation of the North American continent, some 1,000,000,000 years old. Dr. Ewing's twitchy seismograph needles now told him how thick the sedimentary layer was. Near the shore the thickness...