Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further. The heads, weighing roughly 100 lb. each, were found several years ago in gravel pits near Malakoff, Tex. Since faking prehistoric relics is a good-sized industry in the Southwest, geologists were startled to find the heads genuine, more startled to find that they date from the glacial era some 20,000 years ago. Significance: until recently scientists thought that man first migrated to America (via Alaska) a mere 4,000 years...
...Jupiter (music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; book by Rodgers and Hart; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman and Rodgers in association with Richard Kollmar) started the 1942-43 season but possibly ended an era: it may well be Broadway's last fine-feathers, six-figures musical until after the war. Its large-scale lavishness-a beautiful chorus, gorgeous costumes, stage-deep dance routines-is one of its two real assets. The other is Ray Bolger (George White's Scandals, On Your Toes), its long-faced, nimble-footed star...
...entering Freshman in the twenties found "college life" ample justification for getting a college education. The Freshman of the thirties was a more serious fellow, anxious to find in his courses the solution to the problems which beset his era. Towards the end of the decade he began to wonder whether that solution really existed. Now that war has climaxed the debacle, the Freshman of the forties is tempted to see in it the ultimate expression of his problems, and to feel that military victory is the final answer, military effort the final method. But the war is only...
...era? Vag could remember a couple of Yard Concerts, a few dances, some rainy evenings when he and Ann had slushed across the Common--somewhere in the long procession of grey lectures. There were a few friends. And Ann again, in the back of his mind, in phone reach, while he had fought with his work on Friday and Saturday nights...
There were people who could treat even the end of an era gracefully, because they knew it had to end. Vag envied them their grace...