Sentences with phrase «of early last century»

On the other hand the fact that it's based on a Boris Vian story leaves room for a little hope, because he's a brillant, underrated author of the early last century.

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Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) gave up on Twenty - First Century Fox stock earlier this year, it disclosed Monday — just as the owner of Fox News was embroiled in a widening sexual harassment scandal that culminated last month in the ouster of political commentator Bill O'Reilly.

«If war and revolution marked the last century, the competition for prosperity and the marketing of ways to enjoy that new wealth is moulding the early years of the 21st century,» Becker writes.

I wanted to learn about the last era of American history when public shaming was a common form of punishment, so I was seeking out court transcripts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

In the early part of last century, it was the building out of railroads, resulting in skyrocketing real estate prices and ending in yet another crash of both Florida real estate and railroad stocks.

Over the last century, the worst years for the rich were the early 1930s, the heart of the Great Depression.

If you read the original story this article is based on it says, «The archaeologists, Erez Ben - Yosef and Lidar Sapir - Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible.

The author of classics such as «Fahrenheit 451» and «The Martian Chronicles» was one of the last living links to an era in early 20th century America in which children got lost in stargazing or pulp magazines like «Weird Tales» instead of video games.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

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.

There are a number of useful early chapters on the historical context of the debate between science and religion, where the authors juxtapose and compare the differing positions taken by various prominent psychologists / neuroscientists during the last century.

The orthodox are stuck in the 19th century believing that they are following the religion of 3000 years earlier, when, in fact, most of their traditions are based on experiences in the diaspora of the last 1900 years, but mostly limited to the past 200.

One of the greatest achievements of New Testament criticism in the last century has been to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the gospel of Mark formed one of the principal sources used both by Matthew and Luke, and that it is both the earliest and in some ways the most important of our gospels.

So here at last, from a reputable, if unamiable, Roman historian, we have an account of the beginnings of Christianity, in the late twenties or early thirties of the first century.

Early last century, people were not very sensitive to the plight of Jewish people in Germany.

It is believed to have been written on gold plates, whose whereabouts was revealed to Joseph Smith as a very young man, but written and hidden away centuries earlier by Moroni, last remnant of the people who had migrated from the old world to the new.

Science can not deal effectively with the appreciation of beauty, the enjoyment of personal relationships, judgments of value as to good and bad; its leaders nowadays are modest in their claims, unlike their ancestors in the last century and the early days of this one.

Quite early in our history, the Jeffersonians opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts; and even the nativists of the last century were concerned primarily about Catholic immigration and access to the franchise.

In addition to relating details of some of the personal, sometimes quite extreme, interpersonal conflicts between some of the early figures in paleontology, the book also provides a good overview of how scientific estimates regarding the age of the earth and the development of life on earth have advanced over the last few centuries.

This was a characteristic of the early evangelists who first attracted the attention of newspapers in the last century.

The last earlier Pope to be so recognized was Gregory X, of the thirteenth century, and the only one of his successors to be granted the title of saint was Pius X, of the fore part of the twentieth century.

The late Pope did more than any pope of the last century to defend and reassert beyond any doubt the stable and objective character of Catholic teaching - more even than Pius X with his great encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, since modernist incursions had become very much more powerfully established during the pontificate of the unhappy Pope Paul than they had been in the early years of the century.

It has often been noted that an earlier Protestant reverence for the Bible was later transformed into an equally Protestant disintegration of the Bible at the hands of the «higher critics» in nineteenth - century Germany, with the bibliolatry of the first three centuries of the Reformation transmogrifying into the biblical iconoclasm of the last two centuries.

(«Cautionary Verses for Children»: this title of a much used work, published early in the nineteenth century, shows how far the muse of evangelical protestantism in England, with her mind fixed on the idea of danger, had at last drifted away from the original gospel freedom.

«I don't think you're going to see the kind of golf that we saw in the early part of this century and the end of the last,» he said, referring to Woods» glory days.

In the last few years, there have been countless titanic tennis matches worth of the Match of the Century designation, but those who woke up early and caught this one were left breathless by the sheer effort these two champions put into it, vaulting it up there with Nadal - Federer at Wimbledon a few years back as the best in tennis» new golden age.

Almost the entire top - 10 for Massachusetts is players from early last century or even before then, but recent Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Bagwell ranks fifth — without a single one for the hometown team that drafted him.

In the earlier part of the last century it was quite common for harsh potty training methods and punishment to be used; however this was followed by the gentler, child led approach.

It was in the top 100 in the early part of last century, but is barely in the top 1000 now.

The Funding Agency for Schools, the body responsible for GM schools last time around, made it clear in one of its final reports that there would be a shortage of secondary school places in parts of London; and so there was early in this century as no one body had overall responsibility for planning.

Being Italian - American means overcoming the prejudice and discrimination that most immigrants have faced (as well as those that continue to face these issues) when they came to our shores in the early part of the last century.

«We are still sort of at the early stages of the global warming phenomenon, and CO2 is rising much faster this century than the last century.»

But the business of making rugs — not to mention tweed, lace, shoes, and wire fencing, all of which rolled out of Clinton by the ton early last century, slipped away to China and India.

American cities have gone through two other major crime epidemics in the last century one in the late 1960s into the early 1970s and another at the tail end of the 1980s into the early 1990s, when the nationwide murder rate hit an all - time high.

The forests in the Coweeta Basin reflect the disturbance history of the region, which in addition to climate change has experienced early 20th century logging, drought, hurricanes, and insect and disease outbreaks, these last including the extirpation of the American chestnut, once the most important species in southern Appalachian forests.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week show how human genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation a gene that favors cigarette smoking led to early death in some groups.

But not since Freud's pseudoscientific theories early last century has psychiatry claimed any broad theoretical basis for making sense of our normal and abnormal feelings, thinking and social behaviours — the complexities at the heart of being human.

Early last century, the big friendly giant of the Jurassic was stripped of its iconic name due to the obscure protocols of nomenclature.

The science of religion has historical precedents, with Sigmund Freud and William James addressing the topic early in the last century.

The flow from 47 clustered hot springs currently serves two historic spas, the Buckstaff and the Quapaw, both on Bathhouse Row, a collection of architecturally significant structures built early in the last century.

Stomach cancer was a leading cause of cancer - related deaths early in the 20th century and has steadily declined over the last century in the United States.

Scientists tackled that in the early part of the last century and solved the mystery only around 1950.

Dr. Weston A. Price discovered this during his travels to 14 isolated Traditional Societies in the early part of the last century.

While avocados only gained popularity in the US in the last several decades, they've been popular in other parts of the world for centuries and were considered a superfood by cultures like the Aztecs, who even had some of the earliest guacamole recipes.

Early in the last century, Dr. Weston A. Price, «The Isaac Newton of Nutrition», spent more than a decade of his life traveling, studying, and writing about 14 isolated, indigenous cultures from around the globe.

Grass Fed Raw Dairy Cheeses and Butter - Few people are aware that clean, raw milk from grass - fed cows was actually used as a medicine in the early part of the last century.

The early introduction of wheat based foods such as «Farex» (before 6 months usually at 8 weeks) for most of the last century has led to the current explosion in «irritable bowel syndrome» translating to Gluten intolerance etc..

The fishermen sweaters became a men's wardrobe staple early before the mid of the last century.

Early views of Hawaii, dating from the last decades of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th,.