Twentieth Sentence Examples

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  • At the beginning of the 20th century the Baptist Union collected a "Twentieth Century Fund" of £250,000, which has largely assisted the formation of new churches, and gives an indication of the unity and virility of the denomination.

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  • The rocket slammed into an ambulance parked in front of Andre's, the brilliant explosion throwing heat and light that reached her on what she estimated was the twentieth floor.

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  • He succeeded his father probably in 245 B.C., in his twentieth year.

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  • But before the twentieth century, this was not the case and actual famines were much more common.

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  • At Nancy Charles was himself among the slain, leaving his only daughter Mary of Burgundy, then in her twentieth year, sole iheiress to his possessions.

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  • A general survey of the people, administration and resources of the Dutch colony is provided in Twentieth Century Impressions of ' Netherlands India, ed.

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  • In his twentieth year he became totally blind, but he held to his resolve to enter the ministry, and gave himself to theological and historical study.

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  • In 1866 he was employed at the ministry of war in the preparation of army reorganization schemes, and he published anonymously in the following year L'Armee francaise en 1867, a work inspired with Orleanist sentiment, which ran through ten editions in a few months and reached a twentieth in 1870.

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  • This all began to change in the twentieth century for a variety of reasons.

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  • In his twentieth year he matriculated at the university of Seville, but his career as a student was undistinguished.

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  • In Greek, where I is the twentieth letter of the alphabet, or, if the merely numerical and p are excluded, the eighteenth, another form 1 or S according to the direction of the writing is also widespread.

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  • At the age of seventeen he became himself a winter schoolmaster, and in his twentieth year he entered himself at Harvard, working on the farm as usual (until 1831) while he followed his.

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  • The area of land under tillage is less than a twentieth of the whole surface, the crop most extensively grown being maize or " mealies."

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  • It has been the custom to rebuild them every twentieth year, alternately on each of two sites set apart for the purpose, the features of the old edifice being reproduced in the new with scrupulous accuracy.

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  • In the twentieth year of Artaxerxes (445 B.C.), Nehemiah the royal cup-bearer at Shushan (Susa, the royal winter palace) was visited by friends from Judah and was overcome with grief at the tidings of the miserable condition of Jerusalem and the pitiful state of the Judaean remnant which had escaped the captivity.

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  • The pope's representative, Cardinal Cajetan, made it clear that the only safety lay in the collection of a tenth from the clergy and a twentieth from laymen; but the diet appointed a committee to consider the matter and explain why they proposed to refuse the pope's demands.

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  • The travels of Herodotus seem to have been chiefly accomplished between his twentieth and his thirty-seventh year (464-447 B.C.).1 It was probably in his early manhood that as a Persian subject he visited Susa and Babylon, taking advantage of the Persian system of posts which he describes in his fifth book.

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  • When Le Clerc discontinued his Bibliotheque universelle in 1691, Bernard wrote the greater part of the twentieth volume and the five following volumes.

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  • The length of this net-filling species is about a twentieth of an inch.

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  • The time since the last glacial epoch is but a fraction of the time since the first probably no more than a fifteenth or a twentieth.

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  • Four outlying groups beyond the mountains, with perhaps a twentieth part of the total population of the nation, one about Pittsburg, one in West Virginia, another in northern Kentucky, and the last in.

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  • Faith" in the twentieth of the Thirty-nine Articles was inserted by fraud.

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  • The left wing, the Second Legion (under Vespasian, afterwards emperor), subdued the south; the centre, the Fourteenth and Twentieth Legions, subdued the midlands, while the right wing, the Ninth Legion, advanced through the eastern part of the island.

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  • The army which guarded or coerced the province consisted, from the time of Hadrian onwards, of (I) three legions, the Second at Isca Silurum (Caerleon-on-Usk, q.v.), the Ninth at Eburacum (q.v.; now York), the Twentieth at Deva (q.v.; now Chester), a total of some 15,000 heavy infantry; and (2) a large but uncertain number of auxiliaries, troops of the second grade, organized in infantry cohorts or cavalry alae, each 500 or 1000 strong, and posted in castella nearer the frontiers than the legions.

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  • This is known as the Commination service, its distinctive element being the solemn reading of "the general sentences of God's cursing against sinners, gathered out of the seven and twentieth chapter of Deuteronomy, and other places of Scripture."

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  • By the 6th of December he had sent in to the Royal Society the twentieth, and on the 24th of December the twenty-first, series of his "Researches," in which the properties of diamagnetic bodies are fully described.

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  • In twentieth year of catholicate of Gregory and thirtyseventh of Trdat, the king, on return of Aristaces from council of Nice, bringing the Nicene creed and canons.

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  • He had not indeed "penetrated to the city," but his invasion of Italy had produced important results; it had caused the imperial residence to be transferred from Milan to Ravenna, it had necessitated the withdrawal of the Twentieth Legion from Britain, and it had probably facilitated the great invasion of Vandals, Suevi and Alani into Gaul, by which that province and Spain were lost to the empire.

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  • Both he and his brother Ananda, who were considerably younger than the Buddha, joined the brotherhood in the twentieth year of the Buddha's ministry.

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  • The male sex remains in excess until about the twentieth year, from which age the female sex preponderates in increasing ratio with advancing age.

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  • The complete identification of the Danish king with the Danish people was accomplished at the Herredag of Copenhagen, 1542, when the nobility of Denmark voted Christian a twentieth part of all their property to pay off his heavy debt to the Holsteiners and Germans.

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  • After the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps were united as the Twentieth he was put in command of a Corps of Instruction at Nashville, and saw no more active service except in the last months of the war.

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  • These displays, being probably not altogether congenial to Maria, who was of a retiring disposition, ceased in her twentieth year, and it is even said that she had at that age a strong desire to enter a convent.

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  • Jefferson carried with him from the college of William and Mary at Williamsburg, in his twentieth year, a good knowledge of Latin, Greek and French (to which he soon added Spanish, Italian and Anglo-Saxon), and a familiarity with the higher mathematics and natural sciences only possessed, at his age, by men who have a rare natural taste and ability for those studies.

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  • When a boy he went to Paris and obtained a situation in a large drapery establishment, where he remained, occupying every spare hour in study, until he was in his twentieth year.

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  • At the time of his accession Lutf All Khan was only in his twentieth year, very handsome, tall, graceful, and an excellent horseman.

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  • Foakes Jackson's Christian Difficulties of the Second and Twentieth Centuries, is a study of Marcion and his relation to modern thought.

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  • In his twentieth year he was ordered by the Delphic oracle to return home and revenge his father's death.

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  • He was educated at the Protestant college of Saumur, and he went to Paris in his twentieth year.

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  • From 1891 to 1900 San Francisco dropped from the fifth to the eighth rank among the customs districts of the United States in point of aggregate commerce (the ports of Puget Sound rising in the same period from the twentieth to the tenth place).

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  • In 146 Galen began the study of medicine, and in about his twentieth year he left Pergamus for Smyrna, in order to place himself under the instruction of the anatomist and physician Pelops, and of the peripatetic philosopher Albinus.

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  • A twentieth, even a tenth of a grain of atropine sulphate should be injected subcutaneously, the drug being a direct stimulant of the respiratory centre.

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  • It is calculated that a twentieth of south-eastern Alaska is available for agriculture, and that of the entire country 100,000 sq.

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  • In the twentieth year his cousin Ananda became a mendicant, and from that time seems to have attended on the Buddha, being constantly near him, and delighting to render him all the personal service which love and reverence could suggest.

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  • There was no native coinage, the French 5-franc piece or dollar being the standard, and all sums under that amount were obtained by cutting up those coins into all shapes and sizes, which were weighed with small weights and scales into halves, quarters, eighths, twelfths and twenty-fourths of a dollar, and even reckoned down to the seven hundred and twentieth fraction of the same amount.

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  • From the twentieth year began the Spartan's liability to military service and his membership of one of the &vSpeia or 4ul1.7-ta (dining messes or clubs), composed of about fifteen members each, to one of which every citizen must belong.

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  • Liability to service begins with the first day of the calendar year in which the twentieth year is completed.

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  • He passed through the public school of Skara, and in his twentieth year became a student at Upsala.

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  • It served as an allegory of a dangerous political history of the first half of the twentieth century.

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  • They were astute observers of the twentieth century world scene.

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  • His authority is not any theologian but a twentieth century anarchist called Paul Feyerabend.

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  • They are described in some detail in the reports of nineteenth and twentieth century anthropologists.

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  • Eminent local antiquarians first drew attention to the exceptional prehistoric landscapes of the fen edge during the early twentieth century.

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  • These two books between them stand like pillars of a proscenium arch, framing the perspectives of the looming twentieth century.

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  • Thus we have the express attestation of Richard of Cirencester, that Chester was constructed by the soldiers of the twentieth.

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  • Beaux Artsx-arts architecture is superb, a testament to early twentieth century prosperity.

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  • That hasn't stopped the computer boffins from remixing and rereleasing the track yet again to celebrate it's twentieth anniversary.

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  • Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century German Poems is an essential new addition to any poetry bookshelf.

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  • Watkins ' cello sonata was recorded by Paul and Huw Watkins for Nimbus Records on a CD featuring twentieth century British cello sonatas.

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  • To bring the class in to the twentieth century we were then given writing books.

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  • Conceptualizing change The debates of the late twentieth century have left considerable uncertainty about the ways in which contemporary change should be conceptualized.

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  • About her twentieth year she is described as being somewhat above the middle height, possessing a graceful form and an open cheerful countenance.

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  • Such intolerance is scarcely credible in the second half of the twentieth Century.

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  • Even the two volumes which include extant educationists contain 29 subjects born in the eighteenth century and only 18 from the twentieth.

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  • Italian Life Under fascism Virtual exhibition exploring the nature of Italian fascism in the early twentieth century.

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  • The Twentieth Century Society exists to safeguard the heritage of architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards.

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  • The ideogram used to illustrate the twentieth hexagram is assembled using two groups.

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  • You can't really call the holocaust the hoax of the twentieth century then expect an easy ride into the political mainstream.

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  • Throughout the twentieth century, the titled nobility of the United Kingdom became less homogeneous.

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  • The twentieth legion had an emblem of a boar but so too did the tenth legion, the one you mean.

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  • Collections include autograph manuscripts of composers from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

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  • A materialist of the twelfth century could not believe it any more than a materialist of the twelfth century could not believe it any more than a materialist of the twentieth century.

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  • Close examination of the class of Franz Schreker offers an ideal microcosm of European twentieth century music.

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  • The underwear connection is clearly considered a minus rather than a plus by The Twentieth Century Society.

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  • Dr. Carter has published extensively in the field of twentieth century modernism and the politics of representation.

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  • Thomas was the great-grandfather of Hugh Casson and he had a considerable influence on organ-building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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  • Possibly it was late nineteenth century or early twentieth.

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  • So said top twentieth century playwright Samuel Beckett (sort of ).

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  • Marcia Haydee, the former prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet, is one of the most renowned dramatic ballerinas of the twentieth century.

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  • He earnt a worldwide reputation as one of the most exciting British printmakers of the twentieth century.

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  • Using sound recordings we shall explore a rich and varied repertory of musical works dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

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  • Bohemia was not the only place in which the valve trombone was still relied upon in the early twentieth century.

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  • It was impossible for him to recede, and, after accepting the title of Citoyen Egalite, conferred on him by the commune of Paris, he was elected twentieth and last deputy for Paris to the Convention.

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  • Another method of genetic modification, called mutagenesis, dates to the early part of the twentieth century.

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  • By far, the world's bloodiest century was the twentieth century, which saw one hundred million people die from war.

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  • As recently as the early twentieth century, relatively few careers existed in which young men of drive and ambition could distinguish themselves and leave a mark on the world.

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  • In the highest army circles from midday on the nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of Austerlitz was fought.

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  • By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles long.

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  • I love him! thought Natasha, reading the letter for the twentieth time and finding some peculiarly deep meaning in each word of it.

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  • In those places Chinese seafarers on ships bringing goods from Asia populated the historic Chinatowns of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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  • He reminds us that the seminal thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were Mahan, Corbett and Richmond, not Laughton.

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  • Enjoy a warm welcome, a superb traditional English breakfast and the peace and serenity of an ancient landscape unspoiled by the twentieth century.

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  • In Africa, Lake Chad is now a twentieth of the size it was in the 1950s, leaving millions potentially without water.

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  • We are also delighted to welcome Alasdair Fraser for the twentieth anniversary of Fiddle Week which will take place in August.

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  • Late twentieth centurythe its roots in a great excuse will love these.

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  • Classic twentieth century texts can be reread as environmental texts.

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  • Bertie Harvey NEWS FROM ORKNEY VINTAGE CLUB The 23rd of November, 2002, was the twentieth birthday of Orkney Vintage Club.

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  • Third Intermediate Period After the twentieth dynasty, Egypt must have had problems.

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  • Nor can I fail to mention my own venerable Predecessors who have guided the Church in the twentieth century.

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  • Lionel Tertis Lionel Tertis is almost solely responsible for the rise of the viola in the twentieth century.

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  • It was founded in 1958 to fight the then widespread ignorance of nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture.

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  • During the twentieth century Spain was wracked by civil war.

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  • Around her twentieth week of pregnancy, Sarah's family could notice the bulge on her abdomen.

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  • Worldwide use has doubled since the middle of the twentieth century and coal use is expected to increase as oil supplies become smaller.

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  • In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the U.S. government began conserving scenic wilderness areas by forming National Parks.

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  • The Kirsch company has been a household name in the window treatment industry for almost all of the twentieth century and continues to be a leader in the industry today.

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  • Almost until the start of the twentieth century, dresses for little girls were simpler versions of clothes worn by adults.

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  • The university is over a century old and features classic architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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  • Nudism arose in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century, and spread through Europe, the United States, and Australia.

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  • During the latter part of the twentieth century, tattoos were primarily utilized by microcultures, such as motorcycle gangs, street gangs, and punks.

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  • Sears, Montgomery Wards, Aladdin, and many other companies sold kit homes in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

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  • Men's cardigans have been a part of wardrobes throughout the twentieth century.

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  • Twentieth Century Fox will be doing the international distribution for the Halo movie.

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  • Cards remained popular with cigarette manufacturers for many years, with there being a slight lull at the end of the nineteenth century and start of the twentieth century.

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  • During the mid twentieth century Shawnee Pottery produced unique teapots one after the other.

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  • Many restaurants and diners in the mid twentieth century had teapots and other dishes created expressly for them.

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  • Complete with a facsimile of a 1909 and 1926 catalog, Early 20th (Twentieth) Century Stanley Tools - A Price Guide by Jack Wood is packed with information for the antique tool collector.

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  • From early trains made of tin-plate, cast iron and wood to the steam and electric models of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, antique toy trains have captured the hearts of collectors for more than six decades.

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  • Febrile seizures were first distinguished from epileptic seizures in the twentieth century.

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  • The overall health of the U.S. population improved during the last decades of the twentieth century, but all Americans have not shared equally in these improvements.

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  • By the last two decades of the twentieth century, death came knocking on the schoolhouse door as children brought weapons and shot other children.

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  • However, treatment advanced during the last quarter of the twentieth century, increasing both the life span and the quality of life for most people affected by CF.

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  • Early in the twentieth century, severe scarlet fever epidemics were common.

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  • Research in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century shows even greater influence, contributing to intelligence, career choice, and, to a certain degree, success in adulthood.

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  • In the latter twentieth century, however, advanced neurological research strengthened the case for a physiological basis for the disease.

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  • In the late twentieth century, colchicine was discovered to also be effective in reducing the frequency and severity of attacks in FMF.

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  • Preeclampsia-A condition that develops after the twentieth week of pregnancy and results in high blood pressure, fluid retention that doesn't go away, and large amounts of protein in the urine.

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  • In spite of conscious attempts to reduce sex role stereotyping in the final decades of the twentieth century and in the early 2000s, boys and girls are still treated differently by adults from the time they are born.

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  • In the twentieth century, it was accepted that most cases of CP were due to brain injuries received during a traumatic birth, a condition known as birth asphyxia.

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  • Although much was learned about human embryology in the last couple of decades of the twentieth century, a great deal remains unknown in the early 2000s.

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  • The risk of birth defects drops after the first trimester, and by the twentieth week, there are rarely any complications.

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  • Complications from rubella infection are rare in children, pregnant women past the twentieth week of pregnancy, and other adults.

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  • The last half of the twentieth century saw a dramatic rise in the numbers of women with young children who worked outside of the home.

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  • In the second half of the twentieth century, the early education system in the United States grew substantially.

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  • Once a routine operation urged by pediatricians and obstetricians for newborns in the middle of the twentieth century, circumcision has become an elective option that parents make for their sons on an individual basis.

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  • During the twentieth century, custody laws often mandated that custody be automatically given to mothers, especially for younger children.

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  • Toward the end of the twentieth century, increasing numbers of families did not fit the nuclear profile.

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  • In the last several decades of the twentieth century, there was a dramatic decrease in the number of school districts that require physical education classes for students.

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  • The incidence of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other diseases has increased along with the dramatic increase in meat consumption during the twentieth century.

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  • In the twentieth century, epiglottitis was primarily a disease of two- to seven-year-old children, with boys twice as likely to become ill as girls.

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  • Several theories about intelligence emerged in the twentieth century and with them debate about the nature of intelligence and whether it determined by hereditary factors, the environment, or both.

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  • In the early twentieth century, many doctors influenced by Freud thought that tics were caused by hysteria or other emotional problems, and treated them with psychoanalysis.

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  • The good news is the number of children with cavities in the United States went down in the last few decades of the twentieth century.

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  • During the last third of the twentieth century, great advances were made in the areas of diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders.

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  • In the last decade of the twentieth century and early 2000s, a handful of infants with this condition have survived long-term.

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  • Classified since the early twentieth century as among the deadliest of all disease-causing organisms, staphylococcal bacteria exist on the skin or inside the nostrils of 20 to 30 percent of healthy people.

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  • The disease can strike at any age, but throughout the twentieth century by ages nine or ten about 80 to 90 percent of American children had already been infected.

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  • Unlike the swine flu vaccine used in 1976, flu vaccines in the last decades of the twentieth century and early 2000s have shown no association with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in children.

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  • A wide spectrum of educational/behavioral therapies were developed during the last decades of the twentieth century under the umbrella of applied behavior analysis (ABA), the science of human behavior.

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  • Approximately 10 to 15 percent of pregnancies end before the twentieth week, a process called miscarriage or spontaneous abortion; congenital abnormalities account for a significant proportion of miscarriages.

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  • In the twentieth century, about 50 percent of children would acquire a hemophilus infection before reaching one year of age; almost all children would develop one before age three.

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  • At the end of the twentieth century 17 countries were known to be developing biological weapons, including the culture of botulism toxins.

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  • In the second half of the twentieth century, flu symptoms were associated with vaccine preparations that were not as highly purified as modern vaccines, not to the virus itself.

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  • The survival rate of infants with tracheoesophageal fistulas improved dramatically toward the end of the twentieth century.

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  • But in the last decades of the twentieth century there were dramatic advances in spinal cord regeneration research.

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  • For decades during the twentieth century scientists argued about whether there is a genetic basis for handedness.

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  • The test requires a sample of maternal blood, typically taken during the fifteenth and twentieth week of pregnancy, and measures the level of certain pregnancy hormones.

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  • Throughout most of the twentieth century, adoptions were conducted in secret, and records were often sealed to protect those involved from the social stigma of birth out of wedlock.

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  • Through most of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, adoptions were often informal and unofficial.

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  • In the early twentieth century, as governmental and independent agencies became involved with adoption, information about the individuals involved tended to be restricted.

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  • In the later twentieth century and in the early 2000s, information about adoptions is open to the participants.

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  • The immune system was not recognized as a functional unit of the body until the late twentieth century, probably because its parts are not directly connected to each other and are spread in different parts of the body.

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  • Most deaths from rabies in the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have resulted from bat rather than dog bites; one victim was a man in Iowa who died in September 2002.

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  • Scientific research in the late twentieth century revealed how the quality of interaction with unborn infants affects their later development of creative abilities.

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  • Furthermore, both children's and adults' knowledge about dental care and dental hygiene has improved in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

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  • In the early twentieth century a young dentist in Colorado Springs, Colorado, named Frederick McKay, noticed that many local residents had brown stains on their permanent teeth and that their teeth were surprisingly resistant to decay.

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  • During the early to mid twentieth century, when Arthur Murray dance studios and others were spreading over the nation, these contests were well-attended and established.

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  • The dance form rocketed to popularity at the turn of the twentieth century and eventually became the national dance of Argentina under the Perón government.

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  • Charlotte Mason was a British educator who lived during the late 19th and early twentieth centuries.

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  • How did my fairly conventional family become a part of one of the most controversial health movements of the late twentieth century?

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  • In the late twentieth century, the company's products could be purchased in high end department stores.

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  • The concept of superfoods has been around since the early twentieth century; however, there has been a huge rise in the popularity of superfoods in the past decade.

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  • Traditional leprechauns are attired mostly in kelly green, though, in Irish lore, they were outfitted in red before the Twentieth Century.

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  • Traditionally, hula dancers wore cloth skirts called pu'a, but grass skirts became popular in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

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  • In the first half of the twentieth century both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements formed a trend for carved rings.

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  • The emerald cut was less popular with brides during the later part of the twentieth century.

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  • Llewellyn is a new age publishing company founded in the early twentieth century.

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  • By the twentieth century, electric trains were introduced and continued to evolve.

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  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released in 1944, bringing Disney much needed revenues and the ability to go on to make some of the most famous films of the twentieth century.

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  • During the many past life recalls and various readings conducted by Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet of the twentieth century, he often gave detailed explanations.

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  • Throughout the twentieth century, the town was supported mainly by agriculture and lumber trades, but there was also gold mining and marble (verde antique) quarrying in the area.

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  • These watches are analog as digital was not available until the latter part of the twentieth century.

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  • These watches have long been available with examples of antique Braille pocket watches found in collections dating back to the start of the twentieth century.

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  • For most of the twentieth century, when a woman went out on the town, she wore a slip under her suit or dress.

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  • Either via social expectations or literally forced into binding garments, women only got to enjoy fashion freedom during the twentieth century.

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  • The flannel suits quickly gained popularity among men, too, and in fact were worn by men well into the twentieth century, while the usage by women had soon petered out.

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  • Lingerie did not start to change for older and younger women till nearer the twentieth century.

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  • His diction sounds so upperclass Brit to twentieth century ears, however, that we are led to assume that European union proceeded apace in the years between now and the time of the Enterprise-D.

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  • In a quaint bit of Twentieth Century sensibility, she apparently took his surname when they married, so that fun could be had with the two of them both answering to the query "Captain Picard?"

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  • Popular fantasy exploded with references in short stories and movies in the twentieth century.

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  • He was so skilled in Latin verse that a comedy he wrote in his twentieth year, entitled Philodoxius, deceived the younger Aldus, who edited and published it as the genuine work of Lepidus.

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  • By the midpoint of the twentieth century, America's dreamers were preoccupied with the future—and not just any old future, but the great and glorious future that seemed inevitable.

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  • By the early twentieth century, most manufacturing of fertilizer had switched to the synthetic production of ammonium sulfate and ammonium phosphate.

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  • The tank should be of a size to hold not less than a twentieth part of the total amount of water held in the system.

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