Sentences with phrase «than a century ago»

Poet Emily Dickinson nailed it more than a century ago when she wrote, «They might not need me — yet they might — I'll let my Heart be just in sight — A smile so small as mine might be precisely their necessity.»

Many of the structures and institutions he helped pioneer more than a century ago — in - house sales teams; geographic sales territories; sales conferences; quotas; training academies — we now take for granted.

We explain the origins of Black Friday and its connection to Thanksgiving, which dates to more than a century ago.

Merkur - and Dovo - branded razors have proliferated throughout the world since the firm was founded more than a century ago in 1906.

President Donald Trump is considering a full, posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, who was convicted of racially tinged federal morals charges more than a century ago.

«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.

The Chinese originally came more than a century ago seeking better opportunities, and the experience gave them and their descendants great drive.

Although the term (it means «for life») wasn't coined until the 1960s, understanding of them began more than a century ago when Ilya Mechnikov, a Russian - born Nobel laureate in the late - 19th and early - 20th centuries suggested drinking sour milk containing bacteria — which sparked a fad diet in Paris.

«No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts,» complained Lord Salisbury more than a century ago.

A Civil War income tax bill passed in 1862 included this provision, and then it became part of the code more than a century ago after the Constitution was amended to allow for an income tax.

It is well known for a supposed supernatural phenomena involving the ghost of Henry Wells, who was accused of burning down the courthouse more than a century ago but has reportedly be seen in the window.

From the moment its doors opened more than a century ago, the Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan has stood as a monument to old - school retail.

Twenty - first century Christianity is also a far more urban reality than a century ago.

More than a century ago, Frederick Winslow Taylor brought his stopwatch and principles of scientific management to the office, instilling efficiency as the highest calling in what was then a factory for processing paperwork.

@Jesus Please ensure you are not mistaking YEC, which is of fairly recent Protestant vintage, with the position of the RCC which publicly announced decades (in some cases more than a century ago) that many of the stories in are allegorical.

Melville wrote of our condition more than a century ago when he spoke of landlessness: «as in landlessness alone rests highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God — so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety.

In the last 20 years, a despised Catholic church has become allies with those who less than a century ago would have gladly snuffed them out.

(John Henry Newman argued more than a century ago that the churches that had maintained strong doctrines on Mary are those that had not abandoned strong christological ones.)

More than a century ago, Dutch statesman Abraham Kuyper coined the term «sphere sovereignty» to account for the diverse forms of community found in the mature society.

This is the way the mentally ill were treated in the United States of America, little more than a century ago!

And yet, until less than a century ago, his story was by far the better known, more influential, and more vital of the two.

Bahai was born in Persia just a little more than a century ago, 1844.

Remember that many mentally ill persons were still chained to the walls of jails and almshouses a little more than a century ago in America (see Chap.

I discovered that Shinto had come to Hawaii with Japanese workers looking for jobs on the sugar plantations a little more than a century ago.

Such was the comfortable vista which, less than a century ago, began abruptly to change beneath our gaze, something in the fashion of those organic tissues in the living body which, after long remaining harmless and dormant, their cells apparently indistinguishable from those of the surrounding tissue, suddenly burst into dangerous growth.

The local church today is larger, more complex, and more highly organized than a century ago.

Methodist Frances Willard led two million members worldwide in the temperance movement more than a century ago, influencing many to support women's suffrage as a «weapon of protection to her home and tempted loved ones from the tyranny of drink.»

When, little more than a century ago, Man first discovered the abyss of time that lies behind him, and therefore the abyss that lies ahead, his first feeling was a tremendous hope, a sense of wonderment at the progress our fathers had made.

What Monier Williams said in appreciation of the Indian wisdom and the Indians more than a century ago still challenges us todaylxi:

Only a little more than a century ago, many of the very same passages now being invoked to argue that the scriptures label homosexuality a sin or that God can not countenance gay marriage were used to justify not «biblical marriage» but slavery.

Opened more than a century ago on March 21, 1904, The Westin St. Francis still today maintains its preeminence as San Francisco's center of social, theatrical and business life.

They are also reviving the cocktail culture that came to fruition more than a century ago where bartenders have become mixologists and a simple drink can resemble the depth of ingredients of an entire meal.

Bob Goldstein and Ray Martin say that even though the production capacity has grown and the equipment has become more sophisticated, the core of the process remains the same stone grinding methods used more than a century ago.

We're still making the same flavor profile we developed more than a century ago.

The winery's philosophy is the same today as it was more than a century ago: Craft high - quality wines that capture the true essence of California's diverse regions.

This recipe for Homemade «Cracker Jack» Caramel Popcorn Mix is an iconic snack made famous through baseball lore from more than a century ago.

Corporate Responsibility is part of our essence, instilled more than a century ago by our company's founder W.K. Kellogg.

The city that less than a century ago was a fur - trading post known as Fort Garry was alive and throbbing last week with its birthday offering for Canada, the fifth Pan-American Games, and extraordinary charity was at work all over town.

First synthesized more than a century ago, DMSO is a natural by - product of wood - pulp manufacture and has been used for decades as an industrial solvent, paint thinner and additive in a number of chemical products.

Part of the old house in which she lives at Ojo de Agua was built more than a century ago by one of her ancestors, whose name was Pedro Luro.

When most of our current pedagogical practices were developed more than a century ago, the essential economic purpose of public schools was to produce industrial workers who were fast and reliable when assigned repetitive mechanical or clerical tasks.

The founder of the modern Olympic games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, first stated the Olympic creed in 1896, and it is as much a cherished ideal today as it was more than a century ago: «The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part.»

Holle has been making organic infant formulas for more than 80 years and was founded on anthroposophical dietary principles, which is a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner more than a century ago.

As they did so, new media staffers helped the campaign build a massive electoral operation that rivaled the partisan mobilization during the era of strong party politics more than a century ago.

And it must restore the elimination of state and local tax deductibility, which has been the foundation of the federal income tax law since its creation more than a century ago.»

Midtown Kingstonians live, work, play and travel (except along a 500 - foot stretch of closed - off Washington Avenue) above sewer and sanitary pipes installed more than a century ago.

The Pyngyp Schoolhouse was built more than a century ago, one of nearly 100 such crude one - room wooden schoolhouses that -LSB-...]

More than a century ago, LaValva notes, public markets were one of the main vehicles government used to improve public health.

But the biological connection between marijuana and hemp continues to create a roadblock for growing a crop that farmers cultivated in New York state more than a century ago.

More than a century ago, Leslie Leland Locke, a historian of mathematics, determined how knots on the cords represent numbers in a base - 10 decimal system.