World War II was the watershed event for higher education in modern Western societies.

第二次世界大战是现代西方社会高等教育的分水岭。

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1923 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War.

1923年的今天，为解决现代土耳其的领土边界划分问题的《洛桑条约》在瑞士签署，签署国有希腊、保加利亚和其他在第一次世界大战中参战的国家。

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After World War I, there was an eagerness to embrace the new and it was in America's cities, most dramatically in its biggest, new York, where the modern age was born.

世纪随后的年代。一战结束后，人们渴望拥抱新生事物，在美国城市非常戏剧性的是在美国最大城市纽约现代诞生了。

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Mr Blair is the first prime minister since the second world war to enunciate a detailed philosophy of British power in the modern world.

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Mr Turing worked as part of the team which cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park in World War II and went on to help create the world's first modern computer, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.

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But all of those negative third years were prior to World War II, not in the post-1950 modern market era.

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