Sentences with phrase «turn of the last century»

[At the] turn of the last century, [the bluefin] was considered inedible because of its bright - red meat.

Henri Matisse was friends with turn of the last century collectors Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone.

At the turn of the last century, memory - documenting photography was regarded as a woman's pastime.

Around the turn of the last century, for example, we began to see the business corporation emerge as a building block of modern society, but if you'd made that observation to people in 1900, they wouldn't have known what you were talking about.

This 16 - foot cedar canoe could have been plying Muskokan waters at the turn of the last century: steam - bent hardwood frame, wrapped in cedar with mahogany decks at either end.

McKay contrasts the proud investigative journalism tradition that brought down the Standard Oil monopoly at the turn of the last century and the Nixon presidency in the 1970s with a form of business reporting that has been «notorious for failing to detect bubbles before they burst with calamitous consequences.»

We have medicines and medical proceudres that have increased the life expectancy to nearly double that of the turn of the last century... but we are worse off now, right?

In fact, the only two times in American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 years.

America, at the turn of last century, suffered from all of the symptoms of a social - capital deficit.

Speaking at the turn of the last century in the United States Senate, the politician - historian Albert J. Beveridge set forth what was then a widely held view.

By the turn of the last century, the state had expanded to check the private economic power of trusts and monopolies and to preserve market competition.

The number of immigrants who have arrived since 1965 exceeds the millions who came at the turn of the last century.

By the turn of the last century, a three - source hypothesis (J, E and P) in Genesis was thought to be in its major lines and by its major proponents at least as well - established as the Copernican theory.

For its part, the Pantai Inn is a collection of fully restored buildings from many eras, including some of the original beachside vacation cottages from the turn of the last century — many with a compelling pedigree.

It started out as British and American investment at the turn of last century, then the Japanese arrived in a big way in the 1980s and 90s and in more recent times - New Zealand, China, the US again, Germany and Malaysia, to name just a few, have come and in some instances gone.

Maximilian Bircher - Benner, a Swiss doctor and nutritionist, developed Bircher for patients at his Zurich sanatorium at the turn of the last century as a way of adding more raw fruit into their diets.

From the turn of the last century, through Prohibition and the Great Depression, throughout the challenges of survival in the 20th and 21st centuries, it is the story of one family's adaptation and reinvention, not once, but multiple times.

The property boasts one of the largest collections of South African art with acclaimed work from the turn of the last century as well as a growing collection of contemporary art.

The record was roughly 4:12 at the turn of the last century.

Human milk banks date back to the turn of the last century.

This top Swedish baby girl name is one that is making a comeback here in the U.S. Nova has been a long time favorite in Sweden since the beginning of the turn of the last century.

This unfact JD brought up was started around the turn of the last century when OB hospitals began to spring up in the US.

To demonstrate the transitivity of ethnic construction, is that as the race stands as of today (Feb. 3, 2016), almost all candidates would have been considered an «ethnic minority» at the turn of the last century.

The petition process, while clearly favoring Democrats in a Democrat - heavy city, was meant to offer a route onto the ballot that didn't require going through one of the city's massive, powerful political machines at the turn of the last century.

The genealogy company MyHeritage found that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Robert Anderson Van Wyck, a Tammany Hall - backed mayor from the turn of the last century, are 11th cousins five times removed, with an English knight from the 15th century as a common ancestor.

There will be new Garden Cities regardless of who is elected: distorted versions of the Socialist utopias conceived of at the turn of the last century.

It's been tried before, going all the way back to the turn of the last century.

The principle comes from the Russian researcher Ivan Pavlov, who, around the turn of the last century, taught dogs to associate a certain sound with food so that they began to drool on hearing the sound.

It motivated Percival Lowell's writings about canals on Mars at the turn of the last century, and it inspired Orson Welles's infamous «War of the Worlds» radio broadcast in 1938, which sent hundreds of thousands of listeners into a panic over a fictional Martian invasion they thought was real.

«We lost a lot of hemlock during the wave of logging,» he says, referring to the Paul Bunyan era at the turn of the last century.

Parts of the Big Apple looked peacefully post-apocalyptic by Sunday, with deserted streets and empty subway stations serving as stark reminders of this historic weather event — the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in New York since the turn of the last century.

Not to mention some smartness in deciding to go back to the future (electric cars outsold competitors at the turn of the last century) in short order.

At the turn of the last century, Freud invoked the concept of repression, a protective mental mode that smothers distressing emotional events.

Each young life saved added decades to the raw numbers from which life - expectancy averages are drawn, since a person who survived childhood at the turn of the last century was likely to live decades more.

Donohue: Absolutely, let me give you two examples: one that has been used by farmers since the turn of the last century and one that many scientists are working on right now.

At the turn of the last century, around 1900, the average person consumed less than one kilo of sugar in one year.

It's interesting that at the turn of the last century, saturated fats such as coconut oil were advertised as healthy.

He was inspired by an Englishwoman visiting India at the turn of the last Century.

The first feature film to tell the story of the ordinary British women at the turn of the last century who risked everything in the fight for equality and the right to vote.

Director Sarah Gavron returns to the Festival for a third time with a film that tells the story of the ordinary British women at the turn of the last century who risked everything in the fight for equality and the right to vote.

Mark Strong and Simon Russell Beale will join Bjarne Henriksen, one of the stars of the Danish political drama Borgen, to tell the story of a young English violinist who travels to the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the last century and falls for the enigmatic charms of a reclusive Swedish baron.

W.E.B. Du Bois wrote those words shortly after the turn of the last century.

Working from a screenplay co-written with Matthew Robbins, whom del Toro previously worked with in 1997 on Mimic, Crimson Peak is set at the turn of the last century where burgeoning writer Edith, formerly of Buffalo, New York, is uprooted to England, having found love and marriage in the arms of the ambitious aristocrat Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston).

Writer / director Bill Morrison has assembled a treasure trove of «lost» images — silent films, newsreels, and archives from the turn of the last century — that was buried deep in the permafrost of the Yukon.

Taking place around the turn of the last century, Eisenheim the Illusionist (Edward Norton) is traveling around on tour showcasing his masterful illusions to many stunned audiences.

I, Too, Sing America In this poem, Hughes shares the dream that many black people had at the turn of the last century and beyond: the dream that one day there would be no separation of the races, that all people would be «at the table» and looked at in the same way.