Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neill, throwing off journalistic reserve, describes Tesla as "a superman-unquestionably one of the world's greatest geniuses." O'Neill credits him not only with inventing the polyphase alternating current generator and Tesla induction motor, which scientists generally have hailed as the basis of "our electrical power era" (TIME, July 20, 1931), but also with discovering the basic principles of the radio, radar, electronic tube, X ray, fluorescent light, electron microscope, rocket bomb, etc. All these and the discovery of cosmic rays besides, says O'Neill, were inspired by basic Tesla findings. Less ardent admirers...
...Things have gone from bad to worse here. We are passing through the blackest era in our history. Frankly, I don't know what to say to you. Nobody dares speak a word...
...largest corporate offerings ever made hiked the week's business to its record-breaking activity: 1) $180 million worth of Commonwealth Edison Co. and 2) $130 million of Philadelphia Electric Co. bonds. Like most big issues since 1934-when the easy-money era began- these two utility issues were for refunding purposes...
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...earth" that in one way or another we have either assassinated, rejected or shamefully repudiated the greatest democratic leaders this country has produced-among them Lincoln, Wilson and Willkie. We believe the worst that history will be able to assay against Willkie is that he lived out of his era. And whose shame is it if the American people had not the discernment and vision and integrity to accept the One World idea until possibly a Third World War has made it in fact a One World destroyed...