Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again if it was humanly possible, because there was no other Republican available who could touch him as a candidate. Adding his political facts, the chairman concluded that Ike, as a cardiac case, could never undertake another exhausting whistle-stop tour of the nation, and that, anyway, in the era of telecommunications, the 21-in. screen was the best political platform ever devised...
...really a musical pageant of America in the nineteenth century. Gertrude Stein did not try to build a drama around the life of the suffragette but presents her fight through a series of conversations with many of the eminent and some of the obscure people of her era. If such a treatment lacks the tension of a plot, it still gave the writer an opportunity to display her talent for humor, and permitted stage director Roger Graef to fill the huge Sanders Theatre platform with crowds of colorful people...
Perhaps the most common reason for giving to the Fund was expressed in a talk by Edward Streeter '14, author of Father of the Bride. "Although the graduate's memories will differ in detail, they will be basically similar to mine, and he will sigh with regret that an era so good, so rich, so colorful, so filled with giants and genius and laughter, should have passed away forever--and then he will fumble in the lower drawer of his desk for his checkbook...
...Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, to the $600 million-a-year research and development plan under General Tom Power, the range of Air Force activity has never been equaled by any military unit in peacetime history. And this year the Air Force has entered upon a fantastic new era of supersonic flight that dawned even before the fantastic old era of transonic flight seemed fairly begun. These are the keys to the U.S. Air Force today: its range and its change...
...this era of inflation, any able undergraduate can earn $600 in a summer. But for those who cannot or will not, loan facilities still make it possible to avoid cutting into school work with term-time employment...