Within the memory of living men, nothing like it had ever happened before in American public life.

在世人的记忆里，在美国的公务生活中从未发生过这类情形。

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Within living memory, all public universities in California were nominally free (fees were assessed, but were comparatively quite low).

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Some countries have been through more loss within living memory and are better at grieving, but not so in Western Europe and the U.S. The economic healing process may take a long time.

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