Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most economists were, like him, deeply silent or deeply disagreeing with one another over just what was happening. But the nation's farmers-the people most immediately affected-thought they knew the score. They were sure that their golden era of super-high prices was over, but they did not think they were in for a frightful bust. They took their losses with stoicism or good cheer...
...middle of the nineteenth century was an era in which men demanded "practical" results from science, and it was with this in mind that Abbott. Lawrence grandfather of President Lowell, gave $50,000 to the University for a graduate school of science. This was the largest single gift ever donated by an individual to an American institution of learning up to that time...
Harsh & Helpless. When Britten finally got the surging dissonances and powerful choruses of Peter Grimes on paper, England had its biggest homegrown musical event since the Edwardian era triumphs of Sir Edward Elgar. The London Times pronounced Peter Grimes "a great opera ... its success is deserved and inevitable...
...first sight, the Barnes Bill could appear to be an unextravagant little document--unextravagant, certainly, in an era notable for the existence of the government loyalty tests and the J. Parnell Thomas Committee. The Bill is entitled as an act to "prevent Communists and others who advocate the overthrow of government by force, violence, or other unlawful or unconstitutional means from being employed as teachers or otherwise in institutions of learning or schools or in the public education system." Although anyone who calls himself a liberal would scarcely approve of such a bill, it might will be considered as acceptable...
...Manufacturers of children's clothing and toys, obstetricians and hospitals are immediately affected. Actually, the effects of a population bulge . . . will spread to every corner of the economy. One important aspect is the food situation. An era of food scarcity, such as now exists, has been the exception rather than the rule in our history. The population bulge may remove the edge from the problem of farm surpluses...