Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cold War. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the American and Russian pavilions are situated next to each other, intensifying the inevitable competition between them. But this poularity battle, while it does exist, is not necessarily a bad thing. A world's fair is intended to summarize a particular era, and the miniature Cold War at Brussels is certainly a realistic portrayal of the world in the year...
...others in the top seven: ¶ Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Lever House (TIME, April 28, 1952) on Manhattan's Park Avenue, designed by S.O.M. Partner Gordon Bunshaft-a pattern-setter for the era of the glass tower plus plaza...
...need of small stations for television films. Teaming up with Hollywood Producer Edward Small, Gordon formed Television Programs of America, Inc. as a production and distribution company. Into T.P.A. Gordon and Small put $125,000 apiece, bought their first series. Ramar of the Jungle, for $100,000. In the era before Hollywood features became standard late-show fare, stations snapped up Ramar; eventually it grossed...
While gentleman's C's, the prerogative of the Social Register set in the bygone era of the Gold Coast, satisfied the youthful squire of Hyde Park, he devoted himself with "incredible energy and perseverance" to extracurricular activities, Freidel emphasized...
...century Britain, knows that Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the toughest, tetchiest, worldliest women of her time-but also that the time itself was one of treachery and double-dealing, an age in which England was "almost plagued with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope -but it was equally an era of savage religious fanaticism, corruption and shameless nepotism (men, said Sarah, anticipating William Gilbert's Sir Joseph Porter, came "to be Admirals without ever having seen water but in a basin...