Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beer parties, whiskey riots, and a liquid era have died at Yale, The CRIMSON learned today. In an effort to curb the illegal sale of intoxicating beverages to underage Elis, New Haven law requires identification cards for all liquor-store patrons, beginning this first week of the 1957 football season...
...tends to favor labor, farmers, Britain, underdogs (and, in the opinion of some Republicans, Democrats). He says he owes allegiance to no party. He speaks often of the rule of law and the right of dissent. But the enormous impact of his few overtly controversial broadcasts during the McCarthy era has given him a reputation for the kind of partisanship that he usually succeeds in keeping under control...
...their evangelistic campaign to build a Christian community across the U.S. from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Protestant churches of the 19th century used the denominational college as an intellectual stronghold. By the Civil War era, the churches had founded some 40 colleges in Ohio alone, to ensure for the state a Christian core and to train the ministers who plodded after the frontiersmen across the plains...
This note, however true in itself, rings somewhat strange at the end of a turbulent story of an era in which religious "competition" meant fire and death. The need for tolerance is thus the major moral Durant draws from the Reformation-which would never have happened had not "intolerant" men been willing to die (or kill) for their beliefs. Yet this somewhat anticlimactic touch of gentle rationalism does not diminish the excellence of Author Durant's work, and in a way perhaps foreshadows the subject of his next volume, The Age of Reason, to be published in five years...
...Round Table, the Kerr Stables' bay colt, had to run all the way to make off with the fifth annual $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City. After stumbling at the starting gate, Round Table responded to a hard drive, held off Tudor Era by a whisker and scored his eighth straight victory...