Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic headquarters indoctrinated the faithful with one simple piece of propaganda: it was F.D.R. or the end of the Democratic era...
...live in the hollow of the historial wave . . . [but] the day is not far when the present interregnum will end and a new horizontal ferment will arise ... an irresistible global mood, a spiritual springtide like early Christianity or the Renaissance. It will probably mark the end of our historical era, the period which began with Galileo, Newton and Columbus, the age of scientific formulation ... of the ascendance of reason over spirit...
Martin Van Buren sits in repose, a white tie and high collar at his throat, his white hair like a halo around his balding old head, white sideburns creeping down his pink cheeks. Grover Cleveland leans back in majestic bulk, the imperious, mustachioed symbol of the era of bankers and builders. Teddy Roosevelt stares through his pince-nez with impatient energy, head belligerently forward, right hand resting on table, left fist clenched at the hip. And Franklin Roosevelt relaxes, hands on chair arms, in a pose so familiar that not even the bad, sharp lines of the Albany portrait...
Corsair (Vought F4U). Familiar to aircraft spotters because of its upswept wings, the Corsair was built and is used as a carrier fighter but it is also a era ~k land-based aircraft, so used in the main by the Marines. About as fast as anything in the air, it has great high-altitude performance, is also (because of its high horsepower) versatile enough to carry heavy bombs, torpedoes, or a belly tank...
...James Knox Polk, who guided the House in the hectic Jacksonian era, took more abuse and needling than any other Speaker, before or since. Polk put his, and Jackson's, program through Congress and graduated to the Presidency...