Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through a millennium and a half Rome has known many a German master. Now, as the bloody battle of Italy moves up from the south, Nazi tanks and cannon rumble not far from the Forum, Colosseum and Pantheon. Truck convoys roll by the churches, palaces and museums where the sculptures of the Caesars, the frescoes of the Renaissance are stored...
With as much of an aura of the coming millennium as GWTW surrounding its approach, FWTBT--"For Whom the Bell Tolls"--seems to be a little battle-scarred but still on its feet. If Hemingway's story had hit the screen unpublicized it probably would have been picked out as a marvelous picture and knowing souls would shake their heads and say, "Now there's a fine picture. Why didn't those Hollywood people give it a better break...
...will take much more education than H.E. shells and slit trenches to produce the postwar millennium . . . where nine million new veterans will be intelligent, cosmopolitan, informed voters for strong, fearless statesmanship...
...Next autumn or next year, the editor of the Gazette may be standing shoulder to shoulder with Senators Burt Wheeler and Gerald Nye, Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, and Senator Curly Brooks, jamming on the brakes and grinding the gears to slow down the millennium...
...technological millennium that scientists have promised civilization after the war, Professor Albert Eide Parr, director of the American Museum of Natural History, believes that at last something can be done about the weather. He thinks that cities can be planned with built-in climate control...