Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Persian Practice. In some form, hemp has been smoked since long before the beginning of the Christian Era. It was familiar to the ancient Hindus and Persians. It is smoked widely by the Arabs. Eminent European vipers have included De Quincey, Baudelaire (who once, under the influence, sketched a self-portrait, with the Colonne Vendôme in hashish perspective), Dumas, Gautier. The U. S. vogue, precisely coincident with the vogue for hot jazz, began in New Orleans a generation ago, moved up the Mississippi to Chicago, thereafter spread east and west...
...Francisco outlawed patents (for enriching food with vitamin D) which in 15 years had netted the University's research outfit $7,500,000. But Wisconsin still had this golden egg last week-in the form of investments-as well as ideas that may lead to a new era in university research...
After the carpetbag era, the family moved to Manhattan. Young Bernie went to City College, acquired a Phi Beta Kappa key, a reputation as an amateur boxer and ballplayer, and a deaf left ear as the result of a blow with a baseball bat. That deaf ear kept him out of West Point, his first choice for a career; and it has also enabled him, at crucial times, to hear only the questions he cares to answer...
...into business there was nothing but the free-lunch saloon between carrying your own lunch to work, or eating at a leisurely, expensive "continental" restaurant). Periodically Childs ran into stone walls - as when wheatless, meatless days in World War I ate into its flapjack sales, and when the speakeasy era made its white-tiled, antiseptic restaurants look antediluvian to devotees of the intime hole in the wall...
...state system has been cut away. "Routine" shakeups in Party organizations have occured so often in the past six months that the people can scarcely keep track of them. But they do know that Mussolini has called back into power his old stalwarts of the club-and-castor-oil era, notably such "perfect Fascists" as Roberto Farinacci, now Minister of State, and Carlo Scorza, Party Secretary...