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After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. Harry Seidler

War Great Technology Architecture World Made Strides Earthquake Characteristics Only Allowing Advanced Advanced Technology Tall Buildings Traditional Were Modern After Japanese Infusing Expressing Resistant World War World War II

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again. Helen Fisher

Depression War Great Women World Nine Nine-To-Five Once Saw Great Depression Unmarried Jobs Boring More Between Mostly Repetitive Five Subordinate American Again Working Number World War World War II

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered. Herbie Hancock

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. Hjalmar Branting

War Time World Reflection Resort Consideration Broke Out No Time Misleading Leading Opinion Public Available Means Public Opinion Elemental Violence World War

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war. Horst Koehler

War Generation World First Country Invaded Someone Polish Close Germans After Pope Now Whose Drafted Two World War World War Two

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.' Howard K. Smith

War Me You World Wish Took Sides Rules Take Had Said Issue Controversial Against World War World War II

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. Hugh Bonneville

War World Collapse Major Did After Estates Really World War World War II

During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required. Hugh Hardy

War Nature World Isolation Before Project Those About Architects Never Had Nobody Since Concert Learned Because Halls Built Lincoln Materials Lot Very Brave Any After Center Theater Theaters Then Required Second World War Second World War

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. Hugh Jackman

Work War Time Culture Cafe Work Hard World Word Seriously Coffee Big Before Our Immigrants About Take Had Like Italian Years Australians America After Leisure Leisure Time Really Hard World War World War II

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided. Hugh Shelton

Service War Great You Generation World Seen Films Those Out Had Greatest Greatest Generation Provided World War World War II

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless. Hugo Chavez

War World Collapsed System Worthless Born After Second World War Second World War

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War. Ian Hart

War World Think About Tend Terms Fascism Second World War Second World War

When it comes to his sons, it would be easy to think that the macho Duke of Edinburgh has most in common with Prince Andrew. After all, it was Andrew, his third-born son, who risked his life in the Falklands war as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot - just as Philip had risked his own as a naval officer during World War II. Ingrid Seward

Life War Son World Pilot Own Think Philip Macho Andrew Would Would-Be Easy Risked Had Sons Prince Most Edinburgh Duke His Officer Just Common After Helicopter Who Naval Navy Royal World War World War II

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. J. F. C. Fuller

War Army World Witness Ending Men Nothing Telephone Battalion Dreadful More Leading Talking Boxes Commander Than Sitting Improvised Place Chain Actual Starting World War

Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes. Jack Keane

War Eyes World Disagree Before Our Russia Take Trying Established Order After China Apart International Right World War World War II

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. James Buchan

War Property World Suicide East Muslim Muslim World Russia Tactic Struggles Exclusive Were Modern Nationalist Far Far East Vietnam Vietnam War Lanka Europe Second Violence World War Suicidal Second World War

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. Jan Peter Balkenende

War Great Loyalty Memories World Cold Cold War Once Winds More Horrors Weight Taken Taken For Granted Fading Crushing Ideals Iron Iron Curtain Than Curtain Chilling Little Granted Now Second World War Second World War

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given. Jan Peter Balkenende

By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded. Jane Leavy

War World Financial Soil First Before Later Entrenched Joined Had League Were Years Five Commonplace Cape Sandy Organized Original Teams Baseball Orleans Four World War World War I

The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers in major towns and cities supplemented by thousands of smaller shops that carried limited stocks of mostly current titles along with greeting cards, toys and so on. Jason Epstein

War Business World Books Marketplace Entered Independent Carried Cities Thousand Thousands Supplemented Smaller Major Along Towns Toys Well Mostly Limited Stocks Current Shops Greeting After Titles Cards World War World War II

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. Jean-Marie Le Pen

War History You World Will Thousand Write Take Perhaps Concentration Lines Up Five Camps Page Pages Chambers Gas Gas Chambers Second Two World War Second World War

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. Jean-Marie Le Pen

War World Claimed Tens Tens Of Millions Victims Second Millions World War Second World War

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