Word: distant
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sank Center still persisted in believing--distant tremors of Big Bertha's hits had only shaken it mildly. Then depression came--depression being a state of mind in which man no longer feels sure of himself or sure that what he's doing he's doing right. Another cataclysm followed hard upon. It seems that the tribal ways of thinking that the man of 1900 had blithely ignored had a resurgence in the twenties and thirties; any illusions hovering protectedly by were finally burned in the crematoriums or died with the Kamikaze pilots. The vencer of civilization had not just...