Sentences with phrase «by early twentieth century»

By the early twentieth century, the methodological principle of using the present to interpret the past was deeply entrenched in the practice of historical geology.

I love all these creative datasets emerging from the dusty basements of libraries (e.g. NSIDC link at # 6) inspired / motivated almost entirely by this early twentieth century warming problem.

In addition to showing works by early twentieth century famous painters such as Picasso, Braque, Dubuffet, and Kurt Schwitters (creator of the Merzbilder collages and the «Merzbau», a whole building filled with objets trouvés, destroyed by Allied bombing in 1943), the exhibition also showcased assemblages by American artists such as Man Ray (1890 - 1977), Joseph Cornell (1903 - 73) and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as lesser Californian assemblage artists such as Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and Edward Kienholz.

Then, inspired by early twentieth century art, Tadeusz started looking for some other kinds of depicting reality and expressing emotions.

Inspired by early twentieth century art, Tadeusz finds inspiration from abstract expressionism of the mid 1940's.

By the early twentieth century these attitudes formally coalesced into a coherent philosophy, through the work of Bloomsbury Group members Roger Fry and Clive Bell.

The breed soon spread to other parts of Europe and Asia and were appearing in English cat shows almost immediately and in American shows by the early twentieth century.

By the early twentieth century, «shooting brake» began to be used to categorize custom - built two - door station wagons using chassis of established luxury or sports cars.

The first three films directed by Zhang Yimou form a trilogy linked by their early twentieth century, pre-Communist settings, themes around social...

Bikes evolved by trial and error, and by the early twentieth century they looked much as they do today.

Profoundly influenced by prevailing behaviorist theories of psychology, by the early twentieth century authorities advised that parenting instincts and common sense should take a backseat to science.

By the early twentieth century doctors supplanted midwives in delivering babies, who now entered the world more often in hospitals than in homes.

By the early twentieth century the condition of workers had improved.

Together with other developments in the «new science» it caused a series of reactions among Protestants which by the early twentieth century had resulted in a sharp cleavage between liberalism and fundamentalism.

Not exact matches

This work helped Protestant and Catholic scholars break out of tired, polemical post-Reformation patterns of interpretation (which were greatly reinforced by earlier, supposedly «scientific» Protestant historical critics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries).

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

It was unfortunate that the earliest attempts to liberalize Islamic theology were quickly followed, in the first half of the twentieth century, by the attempts of Muslim leaders like Ataturk, in Turkey, and Reza Shah, in Persia, to force their societies to emulate the secular West.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

An appendix indicates that the much loved «Prayer of Saint Francis» («Lord, make me an instrument of your peace / Where there is hatred, let me sow love...) was written in the early twentieth century and, by a circuitous route, ended up being attributed to the saint.

In the tumultuous sixties, as an undergraduate at Harvard (for which I have prayed for forgiveness most of my life), I was disappointed again and again by the common Victorian and early twentieth - century convention of beginning a chapter with lush description and then abandoning it in favor of....

Having in mind the shameful jurisprudence inaugurated by the Court in Dred Scott in the mid-nineteenth century, Lochner v. New York in the early twentieth, and Roe v. Wade and numerous other partisan decisions in our own time, one might say: «I'm sorry, but that is, to say the least, not persuasive.»

The fourteen - day difference reflects the retention by certain Orthodox congregations of the Julian calendar, which was replaced by Gregorian reckoning in the majority of Orthodox societies early in the twentieth century.

Palgrave Macmillan, 260 pages, $ 58.46 Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington by Robert J. Norrell Belknap, 508 pages, $ 35 In the early twentieth century, Booker T. Washington was the most famous black....

God or Nothing, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press): It was the book being discussed at Synod - 2015 and with good reason, for this interview - style autobiography of a life of faith is moving, insightful, and a wonderful testament to the fruits of the European mission to Africa in the early twentieth century.

This helps explain the cautious approach to natural law by key figures in the early days of the Protestant Reformation and the more severe reaction of Karl Barth and his followers in the twentieth century.

The Russian Formalists of the early twentieth century rightly pointed out that her novels exclusively follow the Cinderella plot: A young woman falls in love with a man of superior social standing and has to wait for him to make the first declaration of love ¯ to be followed, even more excruciatingly, by the hoped - for offer of marriage.

In David Tracy's summation, this eventful Word was first released in the prophetic and eschatological strains of both Testaments, paradigmatically expressed in the parables of Jesus and the Pauline theology of the cross, retrieved in the word event which was the Reformation and recalled for and in our word - impoverished, wordy culture by those early twentieth - century classic exponents of the power of the Christian proclaimed word as that proclamation disclosed anew the event of Jesus Christ.

Discredited by its association with a movement which had sought to eradicate Christianity itself, «progressive» Catholicism withered on the vine, while a newly confident «conservative» faith, characterised by rigorous orthodoxy and strict adherence to the Pope, would come to dominate Catholicism throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The essays gathered in The Twilight of the Intellectuals, most of which were first published in the New Criterion, constitute a mordant retrospective on what Julien Benda early in the twentieth century called la trahison des clercs — the treason committed by modern intellectuals (who were mostly middle - class writers, scholars, and artists) against the principles and institutions that had nurtured them.

The neo-Thomistic revival of the early twentieth century was painted in dark colors by the nouvelles théologiens, and their criticism of «arid» scholastic approaches in theology contributed to the steep decline of Thomism after Vatican II.

The choir in that small church, originally constructed by Presbyterian missionaries in the early twentieth century, sang, «What a Friend we have in Jesus.»

I spoke of the earlier generation, influenced by the grand gestures of modernism and sensitive to the aggressive early twentieth - century secularist attacks on religion, as writers inclined to «shout.»

And it has been pointed earlier, some of them were employed village messengers20 and some as watchmen of the village chavadi by the middle of Twentieth century.

Bauerschmidt has selected articles he judges representative of the themes treated in the Summa's three parts, and he reproduces these texts in readable English that is adapted carefully from the translation produced in the early twentieth century by the fathers of the English Dominican Province.

Admittedly, the early church father, Origen (c.185 - 254) held that creation is an eternal process, but this view was rejected by the early church, although some theologians in the twentieth - century have subscribed to it.

Americans in the early twentieth century were still becoming acquainted with mass advertising, which was designed to create new needs where none had existed before, such as for mouthwash or deodorant, or to promote products, such as baby food, that responded to and enabled a more fast - paced life brought on by technological innovation.67 With the mass production and advertising of goods, memorable packaging and branding became an essential part of the product, «an integral part of the commodity itself,» as one business executive noted in 1913.68

Most rural births continued to be attended by midwives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...» Considering history can be a comforting force when faced with the present.

Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor Free Trade Nation is history at its best: far - reaching and authoritative, its story of the rise and fall of free trade as a widely - held belief marked by justice, fairness and peace provocatively refashions the history of early - twentieth - century Britain, reminds us of an age when popular politics exerted real power, and forces us to rethink our contemporary views of consumers, markets and morality.

Later in the early twentieth century, further reforms, especially to reserve forces, were enacted by the then - liberal administration's giant intellect JBS Haldane.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

However, early in the twentieth century the fungal pathogen that creates chestnut blight was accidentally imported into the U.S. from Asia, and by 1950 the American Chestnut had disappeared from our landscape.

Does dominance itself, a concept first put forward early in the twentieth century by a Norwegian researcher studying chickens, have anything to do with human society?

Popularized by Edgar Cayce in the early twentieth century, castor oil is a traditional natural remedy that dates back to Ancient Egypt, China, Persia, Africa, Greece and Rome.

Most of it is taken up by the Republic of Ireland, which declared independence from the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century... as well as churches and...

For the Russian population to have risen up in the early part of the twentieth century in three revolutions, for instance, would have been that much more difficult without the saturation of decisive layers of the population by the humanizing, sensitizing efforts of, among others, Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Goncharov, Ostrovsky, Dostoyevsky, Leskov and Tolstoy.

A period piece set in the early twentieth century, The Danish Girl is based on the real life story of Lili Elbe (played by Redmayne), the first trans woman to ever survive sexual reassignment surgery, and her wife Gerda (played by Alicia Vikander).

Jarrod Emerson's Tribute to Omar Sharif Part 3: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) We follow the life of «Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago» (Sharif), a doctor by profession, but a poet at heart, as he and loved ones endure the hardships of various conflicts in early twentieth century Russia.

Back in February, the revered British filmmaker premiered his new Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, at the Berlin Film Festival, and in May, his 2015 film Sunset Song — a portrait of an early twentieth - century Scottish woman named Chris — came to the U.S. (While in New York for Sunset Song, Davies graciously stopped by to regale us with tales of his past.)

As I noted in The Same Thing Over and Over, «The debate over the sanctity of «schoolhouse leadership,» then, is really a debate between the defenders of early - twentieth - century management practices and those championing the management practices [favored] by leading public and private organizations in recent decades.»

By situating important academic concepts and skills in the context of projects and internships, High Tech High gives Morikawa and his classmates what John Dewey, the great pragmatic philosopher and educational reformer of the early twentieth century, called «both magnet to attract and glue to hold» their learning.