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Seventeen years, a depression and world war later, Canada joined with the U.S. to create the postwar trading system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

After the second world war, sugar remained rationed in Britain for several years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Eliot theorized in his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men,” a bleak assessment of life after the first world war.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

There’s nothing coincidental in the fact that military schools also rose up around then, and that they kept multiplying past the first world war and up to the second one.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

She had seen many mountains that even a world war had not destroyed.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata


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