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Word: erasers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The country, according to the interpretation, was doing fairly well "Before the Cultural Revolution." "After the Cultural Revolution," however, China almost became a land of peace and harmony, plenty of food and political unity. I termed these two eras B C R and A C R because these periods take...

Author: By Ronald W. Wade, | Title: Learning From Liu Shou-Shieu | 2/8/1974 | See Source »

Appealing Melodies. Rachmaninoff's composing style, like his playing, was undeniably showy at times. Further, the substance unquestionably fell short of great music. Rachmaninoff s muse simply did not have the requisite universality; try as he might, and he did try, he could not transcend for long the monochromatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sergei the Somber | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

Unlike tragedy, which unites people of vastly different eras, comedy has a pesky devotion to the calendar. It is rigid as to time present and is extremely vulnerable to time future. What has befallen Holiday is not so much a fail ure of craft as a passage of time in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Blue Chip's Descent | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Corruption certainly exists, but it is important to make distinctions-between larger and lesser transgressions, between various motives and aims. The big city machines, forever symbolized by Boss Tweed, were rotten, but some also performed necessary social functions. The Teapot Dome affair of Harding's Administration, the freezer and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Is Everybody Doing It? | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

Pitching for Princeton is not as gloomy as the hitting outlook, but the forecast is far from rosy. "Our pitchers came back from our southern trip with horrendous ERAs," Stryker said. "To make it worse, as our pitching improves and the staff ERA goes down, so does the team batting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Hosts Princeton Today | 4/27/1973 | See Source »

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