Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who ventured onto the spring practice field was immediately taken with the tremendous passing and kicking skill exhibited by the freshman ace. He is, in this observer's opinion, far and away the best passer of the postwar era in Cambridge. Unfortunately, 19-year-old Carroll Loewenstein only weighs 148 pounds, which is too light for a regular tailback in college football...
...classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views history as a meaningful interplay of God's purpose and man's free will. Armed with his new sense of freedom, man was able to launch upon a prolonged era of creativity. But the "unanticipated disaster" of modern times, says Niebuhr, was that man, forgetting that his power for evil was as great as his power for good, began to identify his own creative activity with the will...
...PITCHING Player G IP H R ER ERA HR BB SO WP W L PCT. Godin 5 49 36 17 9 1.65 1 31 53 0 2 3 .400 Turner 3 21 19 9 7 2.95 1 12 7 0 1 1 .500 Hymans 2 5 4 4 4 7.71 0 7 5 0 0 1 .000 Neal 1 1 1 0 0 .000 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTAL...
...hearted Technicolored reunion for Hollywood's best-known dance team: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The last time Fred and Ginger whirled across the screen together (The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 1939), they were impersonating the famed ballroom dance team of the pre-World War I era. In The Bar-kleys, despite a thin veneer of fiction which makes them husband & wife, they are impersonating the world-famous cinema dance team of the '30s: Astaire & Rogers...
...people in "The Happiest Years" are all genuine if rather insignificant people. If it were not derogatory (which would be impolite with these nice folks), they could possibly be said to have eliche personalities. In an era in which successful plays are almost invariably concerned with neurotics or eccentrics (the only recently successful 'domestic comedy,' that was not a farce, I can recall was "Life with Father," which mainly exploited Father's eccentricities, after all), it's rather nice to have some old ordinary people around...