Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these supplementary weapons were not necessary. John L. collapsed. With his collapse, an era ended-the 13-year-old era in which labor leaders, because of their implied political power, had been able to go to the White House and get almost anything they asked...
...than the Inca, were the first of the New World people to cultivate corn. Out of this skill and the sedentary rooted life it led to, they evolved their extraordinary culture. Just when the Maya flowering began he can merely guess at, but by the dawn of the Christian era there was probably already a considerable Maya civilization in what is now the Guatemala Department...
Internationalism Lie had known ever since his childhood. He grew up in an exciting era, when the battle for the receivership of the 19th Century had just begun. His mother's boardinghouse in Grorud, near Oslo, was cosmopolitan-Swedish, Finnish, Polish, German, Russian workers paid mother Lie 20? a day for room & board. In the evening, around the table, Trygve heard them talk of the Russo-Japanese War, of the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, of Norway's breakaway from Sweden, of syndicalism and the brotherhood of all workers. In those days Trygve Lie also acquired a faith...
...Heaviest era of Bulldog predominance, in which they amassed the commanding series edge they have never relinquished, was the period from 1876 to 1912, when Yale won 23 games to Harvard's five. There were four deadlocks in the period...
...feeling that this sort of weekend was out of joint with the times, and that it would be a long, long time before the Crimson and the Blue met again. In a way, it seemed then to Vag, that the game marked the end of an era -- a way of looking at life...