Sentences with phrase «near turn of the century»

As was suggested earlier, those born near the turn of the century have seen within it amazing advances — not only in science, technology, and increased knowledge, but in the conquest of disease with the prolongation of life, an increase in the recognition of race and sex equality with accompanying legal steps; manifold ministries of welfare to the poor, the young, and the elderly; a growing concern for civil rights in many of its facets.

Tests have been used to demonstrate the feeble - mindedness of Southern European immigrants (a false conclusion upon which this country's immigration policy was based near the turn of the century).

Most American Airedales trace their ancestry back to CH Master Briar, a British dog brought over to the United States near the turn of the century.

Like Pablo Picasso's innovative reinventions of painting and sculpture near the turn of the century via Cubism and constructed sculpture, with influences as disparate as Navaho sand paintings, surrealism, Jungian analysis, and Mexican mural art, [26] Pollock redefined what it was to produce art.

Like Pablo Picasso's innovative reinventions of painting and sculpture near the turn of the century via Cubism and constructed sculpture, Pollock redefined the way art gets made at the mid-century point.

Like Pablo Picasso's innovative reinventions of painting and sculpture near the turn of the century via Cubism and constructed sculpture, Pollock redefined artmaking during the mid-century.

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It turns out that the oldest codes in the Near Eastern legal tradition, Sumerian laws from the 21st century BCE, also have payment in place of retaliation.

Lord Chisholm, one of many British gentlemen to settle in Southern Alberta around the turn of the 20th century, likely had the wooden tower for his windmill built by labourers on his farm near Crossfield, Alberta, in 1893.

Two Chicago treasures, the Garfield Park Conservatory on the city's West Side and the Lincoln Park Conservatory on the Near North, have been a haven from the city's single - digit temperatures since the turn of the 19th Century.

Emily Lovely Emily was # 1 for a long run near the turn of the 21st century, but it's now on a slow slide out of the top 10.

From its near eradication nationwide at the turn of the 21st century, syphilis cases in Onondaga County doubled from 2012 to 2013.

«Kevin found an atlas, written by Carl Wernicke near the turn of the (20th) century, that depicted the vertical occipital fasciculus,» Yeatman said.

From Humphry Davy's near - suicidal gas experiments to William Herschel's discovery of Uranus, Richard Holmes deftly captures the thrill of scientific exploration at the turn of the 19th century.

For the children's bedroom in a turn - of - the - century summer house near Stockholm, a Swedish couple chose whimsical cowboy - themed wallpaper by designer Cath Kidston.

In addition to the Carroll and Mozart volumes, Turning the Pages displays the personal notebook of Leonardo da Vinci; the Luttrell Psalter, an illuminated book created in the early 1300s that offers fascinating depictions of medieval life; a sixteenth - century medical anatomy text filled with exquisite engravings; the first atlas of Europe, assembled by Mercator in the 1570s; the dazzling Lindisfarne Gospels, the «pinnacle of Anglo - Saxon art»; and the oldest printed «book» in the world (actually a scroll), the Diamond Sutra, published in China in 868 and discovered in near - pristine condition in 1900.

But anyone paying attention to BMW near the turn of the 21st century knows that it was building special sports cars back then — cars that would cement its reputation the world over.

Near the turn of the first century, the Ninth Legion disappeared from frontier borderlands separating Romanized Britannia from the uncivilized lowlands of Caledonia.

The breed was rescued from near extinction by Professor Albert Heim around the turn of the century and has developed slowly since then.

The Basics: Mandragora Youth Hostel Inside a turn - of - the - last - century building on a narrow street, near the Frank Zappa cafe, the Mandragora Hostel offers dorms an... full details

Turn - of - the - century Hotel on quiet street in the cultural center, near Opera House, 2 minute walk from Karlsplatz subway station.

Turn - of - the - century traditional hotel near the Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysees - Spacious, tastefully decorated guestrooms...

Small, six story hotel set in turn of the century building; rooms with soft color decor; located near Sacre Coeur...

Hotel Victoria: Located near Toronto's financial and theatre districts, Hotel Victoria is housed in a stately historic building built at the turn of the 20th century.

This is a near - perfect example of the Victorian architecture that once abounded along the St Kilda Road at the turn of the last century and is recognised and classified by the National Trust.

The Big Blue House Inn is a restored turn of the century mansion located in downtown Tucson near the University of Arizona campus.

His advances in color lithography revived a near - dead medium that had not flourished since the turn of the century.

The top - 1 mm soil moisture content, after rising at the turn of the century, have fallen to near average.

Thus, the Earth's climate may have entered a new mode (a new ~ 30 - yr episode) near the turn of the 20th century: no further temperature increase, a dominantly negative PDO index and a decreasing AMO index might be expected for the next decade or two.

Thus, the Earth's climate may have entered a new mode (a new ~ 30 - yr episode) near the turn of the 20th century: no further temperature increase, a dominantly nega

One of the first examples I can think of was the crisis near the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries when soils were becoming depleted of nitrogen.

Beginning (near the turn of the 20th century) with the theoretical studies of Svante Arrhenius about how infrared absorbing gases help determine the surface temperature of the earth; then spurred by the reexamination of those models in the 1950's, by Roger Revelle, and in the 1960's, by Jule Charney; and then James Hansen's modeling of the unique green - house - gas (GHG) forcing of the very hot atmospheric temperature of Venus — climatologists and geophysicists began to vigorously reexamine such models in greater detail.