Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with Father (TIME, Nov. 20, 1939). Gay, apparently deathless saga of a rambunctious paterfamilias during Manhattan's horsecar era...
...example, in South America where the post-1933 immigration has swelled the Jewish population about 30%, Argentina will now admit Jews only if they have relatives in the country; Bolivia bars "Semitic elements"; Brazil admits few but Catholics; Chile, Bolivia and Colombia clamped down after illegal visa scandals.] The era of . . . mass immigration that brought 2,460,495 Jews to the U.S. alone during the years 1881-1941 is now at an end. Apparently no country is willing to receive immigrants of this category in any sizable number...
...which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth. This spooky tale of London's gaslit era creates suspense, not by keeping the audience in ignorance, but by making it doubt what it knows. It builds up tension, not by hurrying its pace, but by slowing it down to a nerve-racking creep...
Harvard is beginning, not ending, an era in its existence. The calm at University Hall is in sharp contrast to the confusion in the dormitories. For some of us--for a great many of us--the future consists of guns and ships and planes. For others it means different studies, harder work, longer hours. But for all of us the present should mean quiet thought and a serious orientation of ourselves in relation to the needs of the country...
There are two cheerful aspects of the situation, however. The first is that no matter how heavy taxes the Government slaps on private fortunes, there will still be a generation with millions of dollars already salted down and intended for gifts. Even though the end of the fifty year era of substantial bequests is in sight, there will be a few more sizable endowments. Unfortunately, donors often lay such costly luxuries in the University's lap that it doesn't pay to accept. Harvard's job as long as the flow of gifts keeps coming will be to sort...