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- adjective Relating to the period of time between two wars, usually the two
World Wars (1919 - 1939).
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Examples
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Otto Glöckel, president of the Vienna School Council in interwar years and undersecretary of education in the coalition government of 1919, was the leading figure of the educational reform movement.
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Philosophy was not, in interwar years, an expanding profession likely to attract women.
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Commonly described as interwar Hungary's great middle-class writer, Marai fled to the U.S. during the ascent of communism, and since his suicide in 1989, his work has enjoyed a mini-renaissance outside of his homeland.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The interwar years brought rapid growth to TJ's business.
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Repository indeed: Mr. Giordano has been gathering music from the interwar era for most of his 58 years, and has been leading his band, the Nighthawks, since 1976.
Sound of an Will Friedwald 2010
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During the interwar years, it would have seemed absurd to separate the two, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman appeared on Broadway, Fats Waller and Ellington wrote extensively for the theater, and thousands of show tunes made their way into the jazz canon.
New Duo For Jazz, Theater Will Friedwald 2011
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To the dissonant lives of the Mann brothers she has added the interwar wanderings of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, James and Nora Joyce, Aldous and Maria Huxley, plus a cast of peripatetic literati from Benjamin to Isherwood.
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The interwar years brought rapid growth to TJ's business.
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Waugh, Graves, Maugham, Wodehouse, Coward: the interwar writer had not really arrived until he had a passport, a boat or train ticket and a chunky brass key to a room in a European capital.
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While "Chaos and Classicism" is just one slice through the remarkably complex period of the interwar years, it cuts deeply.
In the Great War's Wake Michael FitzGerald 2010
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