Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have heard discussion that if Harvard wins The Game this Saturday, it will be good reason to stage the first big riot in Cambridge since the Pogo era. I have been at Harvard for three years now and the undergraduate body has restrained itself remarkably well. Win or lose, I feel this week-end should not be the cause for breaking the admirable precedent these three years have established. Walter R. Winston...
...Era Uncertain...
...Some kind of an era of good feeling will result from the treaties," Ford said, "but how long it will last is uncertain." There are strong groups, he declared, committed to the present settlement, "at least until something better comes along, but America faces long range dangers...
...whole era ... had newly developed a strong religious tendency, not as the result of any religious destiny, but merely, as it seems, out of a feminine and irritable rebellion against money, knowledge and calculation, to all of which it passionately succumbed...
These words, from the report on the Foreign Service made by the Wriston committee last spring, were part of a grave warning to the Administration. The Committee was appointed by the Secretary of State to discover why, in an era when the nation's diplomatic commitments are ever increasing, its diplomatic corps appears less and less capable of doing an effective job. To emphasize the importance of the committee's findings, its membership was composed of some of America's most distinguished public servants, diplomats, businessmen and educators. Presumably, the Administration intended to act on the recommendations of the group...