Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself ... "I think (and hope) that the consequences [of this war] may be far more important and lasting: a really new era in human history, but not all that people on either side think they are fighting for. Words and things were never farther apart than in our uneducated times," to which he adds a footnote: "By uneducated times ... I mean that we are overeducated verbally and without roots in Mother Earth...
Like the President, Author Stettinius firmly believes that Lend-Lease will open a new era of postwar trade. But will the dispatch of such Lend-Lease materials as machine tools to England, of complete plants and refineries to Russia, mean serious competition for the postwar U.S.? Under Secretary Stettinius is not worried. He wrote: "What have we to fear? The United States should be the last country in the world to fear competition after the war is won. . . . We shall have by far the greatest industrial power, immense material resources, a country undamaged by the enemy, businessmen who can stand...
...time he believed he had seen the end of an era. But as the tide of war turned, he wrote again with his old vigor. The country felt his weight until he died. Canada had long offered him honors: a Cabinet post, appointment as first Minister to Washington, a knighthood. Dafoe had said: "Me a knight? Why, I tend my own furnace and shovel snow off my porch." He would, he said, remain a writing man. A writing man he died...
Dark days came for Poland as the Russians began to come out of their endless birch forests and drift westward, seeking a place in Europe. The era culminated in the three partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795. At the end, there was no Poland; Russia, Prussia and Austria had swallowed everything...
...appear as puppets, playing dramas and comedies to amuse? We do not know whom: God or Satan? Two thousand years ago a miracle occurred and Christ gave us an answer. Even those who did not believe in Christ must admit that His coming was the birth of a new era, establishing contact between our earthly life and eternity...