Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lower, than they have been since the Depression; there are innumerbable small businesses that are struggling desperately to stay above water, caught between high taxes and high costs. Thus, while small business strains and the farmer sweats and the unemployed look elsewhere, the GOP shouts of a new era of gliter and polish...
...cared for by physicians who have had a satisfactory preparation for medical practice, and those whose medical care will be provided by physicians who are graduates of substandard schools." To Veteran Educator Rappleye (Harvard Medical. '18) the situation is "reminiscent of the diploma-mill era of 50 years ago," when fly-by-night schools turned out thousands of inadequately trained doctors...
Somehow, in an era when tennis has quickened into a slam-bang game of brief, explosive rallies. Ken Rosewall nourishes an old-fashioned taste for the back court, for stylish strokes, for careful strategy worked out through a long, exciting exchange of shots. Such tactics seldom stand a chance against the "big" game of today's champions-and until this week Ken had a habit of finishing secondbest. Smooth, fast-paced ground shots may be lovely to look at, but most of the time they add up to little against a booming serve backed by the ability to come...
Thus with proud self-derision the Old Contemptibles* of 1914 sang as they marched to battle. British Author Wolf Mankowitz has written a superb novel about an Old Contemptible who has lived beyond his era, beyond World War II (when everything was "more efficient"), and on into the Welfare State. The old fellow recalls the recruiting poster of World War I, "Kitchener Wants You," and adds his sardonic comment: "He's about the only bastard what does...
...Herzen was among them. Contemplating the ruins of the Roman Empire, he said: "The wisest of the Romans vanished from the scene ... in the silent grandeur of their grief." In Herzen himself, the West today can sense the not-so-silent grandeur of a lost philosopher and a lost era...