Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought in an era of draft calls, which depleted our 'typesetting staff, and of crisis journalism with its bad news breaks and late news. The late Adolf Hitler was forever making a major move on weekends. Pearl Harbor happened on Sunday and V-J Day was on a Tuesday. Inasmuch as our deadline is midnight Monday, interruptions like these meant that the 'typesetters, who are always the last to leave, shared with the rest of the editorial department the headaches of late closings...
Wild Williwaw. But the era of good feeling ended almost at once in the howl of Alaska's biggest, longest political storm. After World War I, the Territory had suffered a slow decline. Its population had dwindled, and did not begin to rise again until the 1930s. Its lopsided economy was tied almost completely to fish and gold-a salmon industry owned in Seattle and a gold industry owned in the East. Alaska had been administered chiefly from dusty Washington pigeonholes by bureaucrats who had never seen a skate of halibut gear or a dredge's tailing pile...
Greenland is getting greener and Iceland's ice is shrinking. The Arctic is losing its chill. According to Dr. Hans Ahlmann, professor of geography at Stockholm University, all the cold lands around the northernmost Atlantic are entering a balmier climatological era...
Belittlers and pessimists have their uses. In an era of prosperity and self-satisfaction, when science and machines have created the highest standard of living the world has over known, and when the new discoveries whose possibilities are yet unexplored offer a future so amazing and wonderful that even the imagination hesitates to reach for it, these gentlemen serve as a reminder that the social sciences, human and international relations, are lagging far, far behind the advance of physical science. However, too much pessimism, like too much optimism, destroys the energy and vision that will be required to make...
Died. Minnie Dupree, 72, blonde toast of Broadway (The Music Master, with David Warfield) in the era of David Belasco and Richard Mansfield, veteran of a 60-year stage, screen and radio career; in Manhattan...