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As a result, plainness, clarity, and politically committed realism became central artistic virtues in Italy after the Second World War.
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Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The underground learning center will be smaller than the Second World War and the Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, which are less than a mile away, and reopened, a little more than three years ago, after a thirty-million-pound refurbishment.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
The Rose Parade has taken place along Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, nearly every year since 1890 with exceptions during the Second World War and the COVID-19 pandemic.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
Los Alamos was built in secret during the Second World War—J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the lab there as part of the Manhattan Project.
—Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
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Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The underground learning center will be smaller than the Second World War and the Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, which are less than a mile away, and reopened, a little more than three years ago, after a thirty-million-pound refurbishment.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
The Rose Parade has taken place along Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, nearly every year since 1890 with exceptions during the Second World War and the COVID-19 pandemic.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
Los Alamos was built in secret during the Second World War—J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the lab there as part of the Manhattan Project.
—Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Second World War.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Second%20World%20War. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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