Word: historicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The growing chorus of Cassandras warning of potentially disastrous oil shortages gets a powerful new voice this week. In a 291-page report to be released at simultaneous press conferences in eleven countries, a group of 35 experts concludes that by the year 2000 oil production in the non-Communist...
Auto companies did best of all; the four in the list raised their median profit by 138.5%, despite another huge loss for American Motors. General Motors regained its historic role as the No. 1 profitmaker,* topping Exxon $2.9 billion to $2.6 billion, and Ford bumped Texaco out of third place...
The advent of Fannie Merritt Farmer was an historic watershed. Before her, women wrote of cooking with love; she made it a laboratory exercise. She embodied, if that is not too earthy a word, all the major ills of twentieth-century culinary teaching. She was the maiden aunt of home...
John Reid and his clan of golfers at St. Andrews in Yonkers are known to posterity as the Apple Tree Gang. Reid had emigrted from Dumfermline, Scotland, the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie, who later became member of St.Andrews. Reid was on hand at the historic moment when the first golf...
Jimmy Carter steps from White House elevator No. 1 onto the ground floor of the mansion and smiles. He asks a Secret Service agent standing in the marbled West Hall about a relative's health. "She's better, Mr. President, thanks," the agent answers. It is 6:45...