Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huang Ti lived-and some Chinese scholars believe that he was just the personification of an era-it was from B.C. 2697 to 2595. Chinese credit him with the invention of armor and wheeled vehicles...
Twenty years ago such a bloomer would have raised a Grade A scandal. But today, in the era of the Big Lie, the collapse of Protocol M was rather like the bursting of a bubble-gum balloon. One reason was that, even if Protocol M was itself a forgery, its contents squared with probable Communist aims and tactics. But Sulzberger put his finger on another, bigger reason: "This incident is characteristic of one phase of the present-day nervousness and suspicion in Europe. A network of forgers and falsifiers-some clever and some not-are busily peddling allegedly secret documents...
Down but Not Out. President Truman signed the Reed-Mahaffie bill, thereby ushering in a new era for financially sick railroads. The law permits roads on their uppers to reorganize under ICC supervision without going into slowpoke bankruptcy courts. ICC cannot order any reorganization into effect unless holders of 75% of the securities approve. At least three railroads-the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Lehigh Valley, and Boston & Maine-are expected to take advantage of the new law soon...
Private Life. He lives in Sacramento's ornate Governor's Mansion, once the boyhood home of Journalist Lincoln Steffens, now converted from an ugly relic into a gleaming legacy of the gingerbread era. He has given up golf and handball. He reads extensively on contemporary problems, dips regularly into his Bible before going to bed and first thing in the morning. His hobby and main relaxation is his lively family. Between fishing trips with his sons, horseback riding with his daughters, near-monthly birthday parties for one Warren or another, he has time for few friends, fewer intimates...
Morbid Ways & Mortgages. Toiling at the side of this unruffled paragon of sociological purpose, Beatrice-who could herself outwork and outlecture most social workers of the era-felt feebly feminine and small, "a mere dilettante." After hours of involved research into feudal economy, say, Beatrice would be ashamed to find that her head ached and she had to lie down-while Sidney indefatigably continued to probe the intricacies of mortgage and land-tenure. But he was wonderfully sympathic and never impatient...