Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During the "dust bowl" era, South Dakota had so much adverse publicity that some of us developed quite an inferiority complex. To top it all off, the First Lady, in her numerous jaunts about the country omitted us entirely in her itineraries. . . . Then the dust storms subsided and the grass commenced growing again. We began to throw out our chests. Among other things, South Dakota has one of the largest gold-producing mines in the world, some of the best agricultural land in the country and without a doubt the best pheasant and waterfowl hunting anywhere. ... We feel that...
Above all, he considered himself a scientist, which he was. In an era when "test pilot" was often a synonym for "daredevil," he persuaded manufacturers that the test pilot should be consulted before the plane was built. "You would not call in an architect after you had built a house," he said...
...spectacular reorganizations-appointment of Byrnes and Jeffers, of McNutt and Wickard, a shakeup of WPB. Now, even inside the Administration, observers agreed that this, too, had been a stopgap. The sound effects had been terrific, the visual impression of Olympian lightnings spectacular-but nothing had really been changed. The era of good cheer had run its course; some nasty trouble brewed. The only consolation for plain citizens was that, despite the procrastination and the palace revolutions, the Army somehow grew and the munitions somehow got made. The U.S. was strong enough to survive even another vast, absolutely final reorganization...
Life With Father. Amusing, perhaps deathless saga of the brownstone-front era, celebrating Clarence Day's father and everybody's family (TIME...
Then there was the time I lectured at Harvard. I was invited that time. I spoke on the subject of "How to be Intelligent Though Educated." They came to scoff, but they stayed to ... ask for my autograph anyway. It was the custom in that era for lady lecturers to have question and answer periods. So I had one too. What did they ask me?... for my telephone number, which shows that they were intelligent if not educated (what am I saying...