Sentences with phrase «beginning of the last century»

The Army Corps of Engineers at the beginning of the last century devised a gravity - driven water system to bring water to the downstate area.

Charles Talar treats Newman in relation to the Modernist crisis at the beginning of the last century; and Thomas Ryba discusses Newman's theory of development in theology and sees strong similarities with Imre Lakatos's description of change and development in the natural sciences.

Well, for one thing, didn't fundamentalism start at the beginning of the last century?

The growth of this particular theology and practice in America in the 1800s paved the way for the birth of the Pentecostal movement, which is traced to Charles Parham and a few Bible school students in Topeka at the beginning of the last century.

Peter Altenberg, a major figure in Vienna's café society at the beginning of the last century, wrote: «There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition and financial catastrophe.

At the beginning of the last century, the submarine was condemned as immoral.

Of course this takes place in a small Mexican village, at the beginning of the last century, so everything is homemade and manually done around the kitchen, but to this day, the mole has remained notorious for being extremely laborious and hard to make.

For years, it was the state - run monopoly beer of Taiwan, first under Japanese rule at the beginning of the last century, then under the Kuomintang.

At the beginning of the last century, bed bugs were very common and many homes had them.

It took Brazil 20 years from the 1980s to recover a breastfeeding culture after it collapsed following the entry of multinational companies such as Nestlé at the beginning of the last century.

At the beginning of last century Jonathan rode directly up and down baby name charts until 1929 when it began its ascent directly up, reaching # 16 by 1982.

The book reflects on advertising campaigns from the beginning of last century until as recently as last year.

Looking at data from 1855 through 2005, Webster and Holland found that the total number of tropical cyclones per year doubled in that time, from an average of six at the beginning of last century to 14 over the past decade.

Dr Jeremy Niven, of the University of Sussex said: «Scientists have been trying to understand how organs reach the right size in our bodies since the beginning of the last century.

At the beginning of the last century, three seemingly unrelated concepts emerged and transformed our once dreary and unsanitary world: proper hygiene, public relations, and animated cartoons.

This has been the paradigm for crystallinity and for order in the solid state ever since the beginning of last century.

This process is called photoemission, or the photoelectric effect, and was discovered by Albert Einstein at the beginning of the last century.

Mick Hamer describes electric buses at the beginning of the last century on which depleted batteries were swapped for charged...

Think about the percentage of these processed foods we eat today versus at the beginning of last century.

At the beginning of the last century, one person in twenty would get cancer.

Back at the beginning of the last century, mankind had some grandiose ideas and in several areas decided to play god while having no idea of the consequences.

However, the landscape of medical education at the beginning of the last century was very different from the state of teacher preparation today.

She further suggests that a working model for educator preparation reform is the one used at the beginning of the last century in overhauling and upgrading the country's medical schools, which resulted in the closure of over half of the medical training programs over a 25 - year period.

The image of Bugatti's tiny cars flitting among and beating fourteen - and seventeen - liter racing cars at the beginning of the last century resonated with my barely teenage heart, and I've loved small cars ever since.

In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents.

These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.

The boy who won't grow up speaks to children and adults alike, and his story, first given to the world by J.M. Barrie at the beginning of the last century, has been adapted and co-opted innumerable times since.

Musil's novel takes place at the beginning of the last century in a country called Kakania, a parody of the Austro - Hungarian Empire.

One is the now mostly forgotten Gene Stratton - Porter, who, at the beginning of the last century, turned out wildly popular romantic sagas with materialism (and proto - fascism) at their heart.

«People have known that value stocks outperform since the beginning of the last century,» Ferri explained in our recent interview.

Hotel L'Ariana is a fascinating villa from the beginning of the last century.

Their house has been accommodating guests since the beginning of the last century.

People born in the beginning of the last century are the last living generation to have experienced changes that have had a tremendous physical impact on humanity in the western world.

The Archive was created out of the conviction that since the beginning of the last century, and especially from the fifties onwards, artistic production can not be understood simply through the artwork in itself, and that the document is an element...

In the Florentine headquarters the collected works range from the beginning of the last century to the 1970s, while the Gardens are home to contemporary artists, including gallery artist Kendell Geers.

The idealism which fueled the modernist abstract movement in the beginnings of the last century encountered confusion and hostility on the part of the mainstream American audience, but it still speaks to our inner yearnings for clarity and focus in our visually over-stimulated world of 2005.

African art was stuff made, up to the beginning of the last century, in the sub-Saharan part of the continent by black - skinned makers whose personal identities were not a primary factor in the making of the objects.

This investigation attempts to offer clues and explanations about what caused the arctic warming at the beginning of the last century.

«With global temperatures warmer now than they were at the beginning of the last century, that means our temperatures are warmer too, which increases the rate of evaporation and increases the demands on water, increases the stress on the water supply, and also leaves us more susceptible to breaking the high - temperature record, which we've been doing lately,» Nielsen - Gammon said.

The reconstruction shows warming as we exit the last ice age, followed by a stable temperature plateau, followed by about 5000 years of gradual cooling ending around the beginning of the last century.