Word: substratum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clung of ... the hysteria of the dying Middle Ages, something of latent spiritual epidemic. It's a strange thing to say about a sensibly sober, modern commercial city, but it was conceivable that a Children's Crusade might suddenly erupt there-in short, an anciently neurotic substratum was perceptible...