Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidence, it was the week of the 39th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution-time for Communists everywhere to celebrate, as the New York Daily Worker put it, the day when "a new era of human society was inaugurated, one that will eventually eliminate all exploitation, war, oppression." In Soviet embassies and legations around the world huge supplies of vodka went undrunk, caviar uneaten, hypocritical greetings unspoken, and crowds demonstrated outside while un smiling Russian hosts tried to hide their embarrassment at the scarcity of guests...
...wrote Virginia's Richmond Enquirer of the President of the U.S. in 1862. It was not unusual. Caught up in the passions of the era, the Northern Copperhead papers no less than the Southern press called Abraham Lincoln names that for venomous variety have been unsurpassed before or since in editorial tirades against a President-"The Ape,'' "Simple Susan," "Kentucky Mule," "Illinois Beast," "traitor," "lowborn, despicable tyrant," "cringing, crawling creature...
...Medical School has been plagued by this problem ever since its birth in 1782 in the basement of Harvard Hall. From that era up to the present day the School's history has been one of constant moving from one building to the next. In 1883, the School moved to 688 Boylston Street which "was expected to be the home for medicine for generations." Seventeen years later, it was ready to move to its present location just off Huntington Avenue...
...earlier era the dynamic young nation would have pushed on until it had found the borders it could hold, but this was no longer possible in the day of U.N., of collective security and world opinion...
...Remember our souls...It is too late...the Russians are here...Help, help, help..."---knows that from now on the world cannot stand still. Alliances have fallen apart, the moderate view has not held, and a tide has been loosed that is carrying the world into a new era. The past is behind, and an unpredictable future--of either law or anarchy--lies ahead...