Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commencement was cut from a five-to a one-day celebration. Missing from the head of the academic procession for the first time in more than 30 years was the late President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (TIME. Jan. 18). Missing, too, was the beribboned straw which, for an epoch, crowned the commencement head of John Pierpont Morgan '89. Gone was the traditional confetti battle between the seniors and their relatives and friends in Soldiers' Field. Gone was the reunion parade with its florid costumes, and the baseball game with Yale. No class tents were pitched in Harvard Yard...
...keynote of President Avila Camacho's speech when he took office in 1940: "Each new epoch demands a rebirth of ideas. The clamor of the entire republic now demands the national consolidation of our social conquests. It demands an era of construction, of abundant life, of economic expansion...
...landscapes of a single lone ombú tree, with zinc-white rinsings of the moon, his gaucho dances at dusk in orange groves or tiled patios, his dames of the epoch of Rosas gossiping in red dresses on crimson sofas in scarlet damask rooms, his nocturnes of the old market or the environs of Malvin, his two wonderful paintings of the murder of Facundo Quiroga on the diligence, and above all the strange series of Negro customs, candombe dancers, wakes, the mongrels chasing the funerals on foot, the parades and festivals are an inexhaustible pageant of a rich past...
...loyalty to our country and to one another and if we can make state enterprise and free enterprise both serve national interests and pull the national wagon side by side, then there is no need for us to run into that horrible, devastating slump or into that squalid epoch of bickering and confusion which mocked and squandered the hard-won victory which we gained a quarter of a century...
...Hopeful. There is no date to mark the moment when plans for the future rose against the tragic present. The mind's anniversaries are personal. Historians can set a date for Newton's discoveries, but not for the epoch that began when millions acknowledged their truth. Children who were ten when the Japanese shelled the barracks at Mukden are 22 now. Against a darker background than their parents ever knew, their first loves and their first jobs began; their play ended and their work and their fighting started...