41.   In earlier eras, because most rock performers were men and their subject was love, women were placed in the position of the love object or sex object.

42.   In earlier eras, presidential candidates like Grover Cleveland, James G. Blaine and William Jennings Bryan often made outrageously false accusations about their opponents.

43.   In an earlier era of college football, he might have wallowed in the residue of defeat for many months.

44.   In an earlier era, the firm boasted of its investing prowess.

45.   In that earlier era, policymakers did not want to know too much about what the CIA was up to.

46.   In three earlier eras, Stein said, earthquakes migrated in stepwise fashion from east to west.

47.   Indeed, few folks these days, at least given time to reflect, would choose to swap places with laborers of an earlier era.

48.   Instead, they say, their circumstances of color and culture have given them options of racial identity, and windows on ethnicity, unimagined in earlier eras.

49.   It seems hardly likely that he wants a return to the kind of textbook Thomism that characterized seminary training in an earlier era.

50.   It is true that there appears little risk of a return to the religious wars of an earlier era.