Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criticism, reply that in the long run the future capital will have an opposite effect; i.e., by focusing Brazil's attention and energy on its vast, unexploited interior, the city will enrich the nation. Says President Kubitschek: "The hour has come-the start of a new era for our country...
...post-World War II America suggests a massive unstopping of the U.S. ear. "Americans have discovered music," says Music Merchant André Kostelanetz, "like a people who have discovered red and blue and green where all had been black and white before." In its musical black-and-white era, the U.S. already had great symphony orchestras, great opera, great foreign artists-and it conquered the world with its jazz. What is different today is the extraordinary breadth of the nation's music production and consumption: operas and orchestras by the hundreds, musicians by the thousands, instruments by the millions...
Electric shock treatment for stubborn cases of depression has been steadily reduced in the tranquilizer era. While it still may not be eliminated, it can now be largely replaced by iproniazid, reported Dr. Theodore Robie of New Jersey's Orange Memorial Hospital. He got good results in 46 out of 50 patients kept on the drug, believes that shock can now be safely withheld unless the patient is "aggressively suicidal...
...well (900 bbl. a day) that the companies are prepared to sink $100 million into the search for more. If they are just moderately successful, they will invest another $200 million in production, refining, transport and storage facilities. This would bring in still other industries, open a bright new era for Alaska that might well make the territory selfsupporting. But last week the best-laid plans of the oilmen were held up by a single, formidable obstacle: the big (7 ft. tall, 10 ft. long), shaggy Alaskan moose...
...era of inflation, these rents may not seem astronomical; but the average student in GSAS, for example, has an extremely limited income. The frequent "no children" restriction adds to the graduate student's dilemma. Landlords are not entirely to blame here; an over-whelming percentage of them ask if the child is of school age. If he is not, they assert, complaints are received from other tenants on the grounds that they are prevented from studying...