Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oslo the director of the National Theater beamed on the actors he had called together. "We're about to present nothing less," he announced, "than the world premiere of Per Reidarson's The Last Cry, which will mark a new era in Norwegian drama...
Thus the British and Dutch rubber producers took a more realistic position. They fear U.S. synthetic rubber production, and its possible tariff protection in the postwar era, more than the mischief of the Japs on their conquered plantations...
Witness Mr. Churchill slouched comfortably in a well-stuffed piece, apparently of period design, a piece that typifies a bygone era. . . . Yet Mr. Churchill does not seem to reflect its attributes. Rather, his pensive and somewhat uncomfortable expression would indicate his realization that the elegance that was England is no more, that she will no longer regally dominate the bulk of the world's thought and the world's commerce...
Franklin Roosevelt had closed his speech and opened an era at Chicago in 1932 with his famed line: "I pledge you-I pledge myself-to a new deal for the American people...
Jean Barrel, 1943's Miss America, got home from a bond-selling tour. She reported in Los Angeles that she had sold $2,500,000 worth with her clothes on, was now convinced that the "bubble bath and cheesecake" era was over with...