Jan Łukasiewicz's life was that of a career academic and scholar, seriously disrupted by the upheavals of war in the twentieth century.
The fans, longing for normality amid the upheaval of the War, would have been disgusted by this newfangled regulation.
Nationalism, the upheaval of World War II, and changes of government in China between 1945 and 1949 are reflected in contemporary China's theatre and dance.
The 18-year-old Robert Prentice manages to escape from his mother's clutches to a new life in Europe thanks to the convenient upheaval of the war.
In 1941, at the height of the upheaval of World War II, he issued a proclamation declaring Ukraine an independent state.
Without the vast slaughter, misery and upheaval of the war, would the most extreme group of revolutionaries still have come to power in Russia?
BOLZANO, Italy — This picturesque town in the foothills of the Tyrolean Alps became Italian by a twist of history, when a pact signed after the upheaval of World War I handed the territory from Austria to Italy.
According to Marx and Engels, the revolution could occur in Russia only after the bourgeois phase of production had "contradicted" the tsarist order, but Lenin was determined to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the upheaval of World War I to settle accounts directly with the "accursed heritage of serfdom".
It was no coincidence that the first edition of Emily Post's "Etiquette" (1922) was published soon after the bloodshed and societal upheaval of World War I, or that Miss Manners (the pseudonym for Judith Martin) first put pen to paper in the 1970s as boomers came of age, trying to make sense of the sexual revolution and all of the other civil disruptions.
Funnily enough, pocket money only became a common practice in families around the 1940s and 50s; perhaps it was a small cultural expression of satisfaction following the upheaval of depression, war and evacuation - children's pocket money signifying peace and prosperity.
