Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter, a brass band and swarms of functionaries were on hand to note the occasion. Said Reuter warmly: "It wove a bond of cooperation and of sentiment that marked the beginning of a different era." A more characteristically American epitaph was a placard bearing the lettered notice...
...hotel's glassed-in veranda overlooking the sparkling blue Rhine below, the Germans and the Allied commissioners toasted, in German champagne, the end of one era and the start of another...
...bottom of the bundle, crushed under the burden of his gorgeous vestments, was the dry skeleton of what had once been a middle-aged Peruvian with greying hair. Amid all those glowing colors, he looked small and inconsequential. The diggers, fascinated by the era in which he lived, were not much interested in the man himself. Only one thing about him was worth noting: his legs were tightly folded under his chin because the ancient Peruvians believed that a man should lie m his grave in the position in which he lay in his mother's womb...
Great expansion of the University was the keynote of President Eliot's era, and the reign of President Lowell, the recnet period, featured inauguration of the House system...
...Victorian era's high noon, most businessmen were warmed by the belief that the biggest rewards would automatically go, by economic law, to the producer of the best and cheapest product. It was mainly patent medicinemen who "took advertising" regularly. In 1888, there were only two men in New York who admitted to being professional writers of advertising; one of them resided in a Bowery hotel, at 25? a night...