Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political scientist's point of view was expressed by Cherington, who maintained that "Although America is facing a new era, it is still the same old America, a provincial America...
...soldier, and I am proud to have lived and fought during an era which produced so great and sincere a leader of this country. The ideals for which he stood and fought will live always if we are intelligent enough to preserve them. At the coming San Francisco parley, may the leaders of the conference remember these ideals. To insure this, I humbly suggest they put another chair at the table-to remain there for Roosevelt. Let it be a material reminder to them and the world of the things for which this great man stood...
...Charley Ross won journalism's Pulitzer Prize for his thoughtful inquiry into the depression era and the remedies applied by the Hoover Administration...
Making of an Editor. As an editor, Van paid little attention to the news and circulation departments, concentrated on editorials. Pictures of that era show him a young, round-faced man with heavy, horn-rimmed glasses, sitting by his desk and typewriter, where he pounded out editorials, single-spaced and with almost no margin. He was always smoking a cigar, and he threw the butts behind the radiator...
...adaptation has also lost much of the dramatic effect which Ibsen originally wrote into the last act. Here, deciding that she must fight against the social convention of the Victorian Era, Nora decides to leave her husband. But the emotional impact which the climax originally possessed has been entirely lost, as the script drags unwholesomely at that point. Too much time is lost in meaningless dialogue between Nora and her husband to retain any of the effect...