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Word: erasers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between what an Administration official called the "Four Martinis and Let's Have an Agreement" era of Franklin Roosevelt and what Marshall called the "Interminable Discussion of Disagreements" at Moscow lay two years of arduous education. Between those two eras was the San Francisco meeting of U.N., the period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Education of the Misters | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Each of these eras of idealism was followed by a World War in which the idealistic striving for common ends reached new highs. The United States fought World War l, in theory at least, to save the world for Wilson democracy; it fought World War 11 as a matter o...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 11/15/1946 | See Source »

Political bossism had also flourished in those devil-take-the-hindmost eras. Clevelanders, always politically alert, had always fought it off eventually. Now the average Clevelander was beginning to feel that there was no domination. Even the most inveterate civic-luncheon addicts could offer no guess as to which of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES .& STATES: Cleveland's Planners | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

A clash between two eras as well as two men, Beggars might have been good melodrama with something extra-something picturesque and a little touching. But the play lets Frankie down as badly as his partner did. Intended as a colorful has-been, Frankie merely seems like something that never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Out of Oblivion. Perhaps it was more of an adieu than Trollope expected. Throughout the Naughty Nineties and the Edwardian and Georgian eras, Trollope's 41 novels were considered as dead as their author. As late as 1929 a student could win a master's degree in 19th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trollope's Comeback | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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