These finned creations would remain the staple of car design until the early 1960's "Muscle Cars"" would take over. ... This was achieved by adding the styling features once only available to the very wealthy, by creating them as carbon copies and thus making the styling available at a reasonable price to the mass middle class. ... At long last, the hallowed promise of "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage " was on the verge of actuality for much of the middle class. ...

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The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age ha...

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Hitler came into the scene much earlier. ... Hitler shot his pistol in the middle of Kahr's speech and shouted, "The national revolution has begun." ... This would make him familiar to racism at an early age. ... But, by early June some 366 000 of the trapped troops had managed to escape. ...

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Cummings" early life inspired his writing from his college days all the way until his last words. After his birth in 1894, Cummings grew up as an intellectual and at age seventeen attended Harvard, where his father was a professor. At a young age, Cummings graduated with his masters and traveled the world, and began to observe the world in a way that would later profoundly impact his writing. ... However, the question of the main character, "him," lingers through the next stanzas, until Cummings strikes with: "sir) it took a nipponized bit of the old sixth avenue el; in the top o...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. Truman as a major factor. Truman is ranked seventh among forty one presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton . Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the da...

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The Germans had an idea that was quite similar to one that the Americans had in its early days. ... Their currency was almost worthless, their industries were still being dismantled, and one man in every five of working age was unemployed" (Prittie 30). ... The Prussians had a major impact on Germany in its early days. ...

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World peace through international government and law is an ancient idea that has mightily fastened itself on the minds of people throughout the ages. ... Winston Churchill himself said it best: "The stone age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. ... As was earlier stated, it is clear that the UN has been both effective and ineffective in its short history. ... This shows that Canada, being only a "middle-power- in the world, spends more than the United Nations, which represents all...

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