Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweep of events in 1945 engulfed a whole era. The modern Dark Ages gave way to a period in which man had another of his historically rare and fragile chances to seek peace and ensue it. The Axis, an insane Atlantis which no Francis Bacon would ever mourn, was shattered and submerged...
...made that era vanished with it. Benito Mussolini, Italy's self-styled Man of Destiny, died ignominiously and was hung by his heels like a slaughtered pig alongside the body of his mistress. Adolf Hitler, Man of 1938, died by his own hand, also with his mistress, in the rubble of Berlin. Or did he die? Dead or alive, it did not much matter; Adolf Hitler, the force, had perished...
Anti-Climax. Yet it was an odd time for a celebration. New Year's Eve would inevitably come as an anticlimax to the wild triumph and relief of V-J day; the new era of peace would hardly have begun...
...Coolidge era, any government that got in trouble with its currency was likely to call on precise little Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer. Known as the "money doctor," he practiced from China to Peru. By 1934 he had treated 13 patients on five continents, not all of whom recovered. Kemmerer's basic prescription: get on the gold standard. Wrote one enthusiastic Chilean editor: "We receive him with palms and olive branches, just as the city of Jerusalem received the Redeemer." Said another: "Dr. Kemmerer is the wisest financier in the world and dances the shimmy on Saturday night...
Before the pre-Civil War era, it cannot be said that the college grew by leaps and bounds. It is doubtful that there was much of a library at all when Nathaniel Eaton taught his classes in the old Peyntree estate in "Newtowne," for John Harvard's 400 volumes did not receive a permanent location until the first College building was nearing completion...