Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paraders and picketers against the era of long skirts [TIME, Sept. 15] may as well save their breath. The words "new silhouette" for the first time in years having a literally accurate meaning, the trend is only a natural demand for more flattery in the matter of feminine clothes: the wonder is that women haven't demanded the change much sooner...
...range rocket at sea. From the carrier Midway, somewhere off Bermuda, a German V-2 roared out, veered sideways, exploded six miles away. Navy spokesmen blamed a defective steering gyro for the erratic flight. The shipboard launching, they said, was successful. Success or not, it officially opened a new era of naval warfare...
...bright light in the new era of Crimson athletics is Tom Bolles crew, which rose last spring from its previous informal status to establish itself as one of the top boats in the country and a good hot for the 1948 Olympics...
...have been taught not to bind our bodies so tightly for fear of offending nature. . . . Are we now going in for an era of fainting...
...city in the U.S. has a more rattletrap public transportation system than Chicago. Its streetcars, owned by four different companies (all bankrupt) and operated by a fifth, are mostly high-riding "antediluvian arks." Wooden coaches of the McKinley era still clatter around the Loop's rickety elevated lines (also operated by a bankrupt company). On streetcars and El trains alike, lurching is continual, overcrowding chronic and wrecks frequent...