Word: erasers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no use denying that 16 years is a long time, and that the historical effect of such an administration would be impossible. But the political continuity of such a period with its changing congresses would probably be not much closer than similar eras when one well integrated party...
Died. Bernard ("Bunny") Berigan, 33, veteran trumpet virtuoso, topnotch tooter of the jazz and swing eras; of an intestinal ailment aggravated by trumpeting; in Manhattan. He began as a boy musician, appeared with name bands when he was 18, soloed with Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, organized his own...
In Aztec religion there was no ethical concept-its heaven, like the Greek Hades, was devoid of moral significance. Aztec theology held that in bygone eras mankind had been successively wiped out by jaguars, by hurricanes, by fiery volcanic rains. The Aztecs in 1519 believed that their world would in...
From eras antedeluvian Harvard's Administration had opposed the building of a theatre in Harvard Square as a menace to the moral welfare of undergraduates. Around the turn of the century the Administration was joined by another forward-looking, progressive institution, the Harvard Square Business Men's Association. Together, side...
Between 1890 and 1910 Chicago boomed again, gained 1,000,000 new citizens. "As in previous boom eras," records Asbury, "the underworld more than kept pace. . . ."A reign of terror arose: