Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Frankie started the present era of jazz in Boston, the greatest in Hub history. There've been regular engagements of some of the greatest living jazzmen, and first one, then two jam sessions simultaneously. Unbelievable in this day, because it happened in Boston, and all the more unbelievable because it happened when jazz is supposedly on its last legs...
Cattle fed on synthetic urea like it and grow fat. This announcement from the University of Wisconsin last week concluded its five-year study of the nutritive value of synthetic urea, opened a new era in feeds, perhaps in foods. Urea is a reasonably priced, simple nitrogen compound made chemically from nothing more than ammonia and carbon dioxide. Not a protein, synthetic urea is so closely related to protein that it can replace a major part of the vegetable proteins in cattle feed. Urea is manufactured in large quantity for use in many types of plastics and as a rich...
...course, it is still possible that Mr. Roosevelt will not be in the White House during the next reconstruction era...
...Cliveden, overlooking the tranquil Thames, Viscountess Astor, the Tory Party's Munich-era hostess and perennial mosquito, buzzed anathema. Some of it was against Paul Joseph Goebbels, who was gleefully repeating to Russia her statement that the Russians were fighting "not for us . . . for themselves" (TIME, Aug. 10). Most of it was against her fellow M.P.s, the British press and her own Plymouth constituency, who were hopping mad at Nancy Astor. M.P.s hunted loopholes in Commons privileges which would allow them to force Nancy to apologize publicly. The British press labeled her speech "a major political indiscretion." A trades...
...late Felix Weingartner was the last of a generation of European super-conductors, and his recent death means the end of a musical era, as well as a great loss to Columbia. He, and his contemporaries, Seidl, Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell...