Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen, all veterans it is claimed, reside in the Houses. And in the Yard dormitories, once exclusively Freshman domain, are scores of upperclassmen. The parietal rules apply, not on the basis of men's understanding, capabilities, or trustworthiness, but on the location of their living quarters. In this changed era, the rules should be altered to meet a new condition...
Your article on President Conant of Harvard [TIME, Sept. 23] is the most encouraging political news in the period since the untimely death of our great leader Franklin D. Roosevelt. For an era in which the emphasis will be on science and statesmanship, James Bryant Conant represents the best which America can offer for its highest position...
...escaped most Koreans, after a year of marching into the era of peace and independence, that their feet are indeed hurting. For half a century they suffered under the hated Japanese. With "liberation" came a dream of freedom. But then their country was divided by two governments, the Russian in the north and the U.S. in the south; they did not have enough rice; angry mobs fomented violence. In four riotous days last week 59 Korean policemen were killed at Taegu in the U.S. zone; 60 were wounded and another 100 reported "missing." Unsigned handbills in Seoul read: "Down with...
...backers, the push-button world apparently held no terrors. Said a representative of International Business Machines (whose motto is "Think!"): "Why, it's a great era for the individual worker. Just think, instead of just taking dictation, a secretary can now serve her boss as accountant, paymaster, inventory expert, and Lord only knows what else...
Critics who have complained of Hollywood's gross materialism may now look forward with misgivings to an era of Hollywood "spirituality." Several new pictures contain spooks, pixies, articulate animals, reincarnation, assorted extrasensory adventures. Forthcoming whimsy for cinemagoers to watch for-or watch...