(That ambition turned out to be an early-twentieth-century idea, too.). From Wordnik.com. [Rabbit Undone] Reference
She has an incredible eye for early-twentieth-century art and antiques. From Wordnik.com. [Eye of the Beholder] Reference
“Selecting early-twentieth-century art and antiques for your resort.”. From Wordnik.com. [Eye of the Beholder] Reference
I should have known you would be an expert on early-twentieth-century transportation. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
In the hands of early-twentieth-century physicists, radium evolved into a powerful agent. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
The woman who taught me everything I know about early-twentieth-century art and then some. From Wordnik.com. [Eye of the Beholder] Reference
“I assist my clients in acquiring the very finest early-twentieth-century art and antiques.”. From Wordnik.com. [Eye of the Beholder] Reference
"Thoughts, fashions, ideals change," as one frequently-reprinted manual for early-twentieth-century. From Wordnik.com. [Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)] Reference
'Political culture, Catalan nationalism, and the women's movement in early-twentieth-century Spain'. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
Anything more unlike the early-twentieth-century idea of a spaceship than the Star Queen would be hard to imagine. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition to Earth]
In early-twentieth-century American society, radium was deployed in an environment of strong racial discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
What does Wickett's Remedy reveal about early-twentieth-century ideas of social, scientific, and commercial progress?. From Wordnik.com. [Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg: Questions] Reference
Actually, I have a somewhat different take – mainly based on my reading of early-twentieth-century justifications for lynching. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism] Reference
In one sense, the few women in the early-twentieth-century science became visible in the relatively small scientific community of Vienna. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
Once he had seen an early-twentieth-century movie on the history of flight, and it had contained a ghastly sequence showing a dirigible launching. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind from The Sun]
James Joyce's short story 'Two Gallants,' published in the collection Dubliners in 1914, is wonderfully redolent of early-twentieth-century Dublin. From Wordnik.com. [The Saving Remnant] Reference
We should not see it simply as the construction of Evans and his staff, but as a shared obsession of the early-twentieth-century intellectual elite. From Wordnik.com. [Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery] Reference
It was written in the late 1930's, I believe, and you can really see that early-twentieth-century transition in style, from narrative to scenic emphasis. From Wordnik.com. [book report: Conjure Wife] Reference
She dazzled early-twentieth-century theater audiences with her original dance routines, her enchanting singing voice, and her penchant for elegant costumes. From Wordnik.com. [The Cakewalk | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
She describes the ambivalence many late-nineteenth - and early-twentieth-century wives exhibited toward having their husbands prosecuted for assaulting them. From Wordnik.com. ['Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.] Reference
If a bunch of early-twentieth-century Frenchmen and a sickly American could create the sound he needed, why couldn't an experienced academic from New Orleans?. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
Asad was among the few Westerners who had ever visited Mecca and Medina, and also among the early-twentieth-century explorers of the Arabian and Libyan Deserts. From Wordnik.com. [Israel Now] Reference
Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [When We Were Orphans: Summary and book reviews of When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro.] Reference
This time, he was about to go over the top, in one of the early-twentieth-century wars; Mercer was the sergeant leading a three-man patrol on a night raid into no-man's land. From Wordnik.com. [Rendezvous With Rama]
Freckles was the first of the consumerist fairy tales packaged as nature novels that brought Stratton-Porter to the forefront of early-twentieth-century American popular fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Catacomb Efreet] Reference
For similar reasons, it would be futile to resurrect the rhetoric of early-twentieth-century social democracy. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Review of Books] Reference
A Dow Chemical complex in Michigan provides unlikely inspiration for an early-twentieth-century British painter. From Wordnik.com. [AmericanHeritage.com] Reference
I also gave short shrift to the nineteenth - and early-twentieth-century antecedents of today's early-music movement. From Wordnik.com. [City Journal] Reference
More apparent is Richter's tie to early-twentieth-century expressionists like Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. From Wordnik.com. [Westword | Complete Issue] Reference
Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1850s through the early-twentieth-century interpretations of historians William E. Dodd and. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
A collection of little-known early-twentieth-century photographs of St. Louis recalls the author's unfashionably happy childhood. From Wordnik.com. [AmericanHeritage.com] Reference
We found the atmosphere wonderfully relaxed, and the early-twentieth-century bathrooms were worth the price of admission (free) alone. From Wordnik.com. [...an endless banquet] Reference
82I propose that the plan of early-twentieth-century Vienna represented the map of radium's trade and exchange. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
He owns one of the finest collections of late-nineteenth - and early-twentieth-century paintings in existence …”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Apparition]
One of them was that one developed muscles when one spent one’s days handling hefty pieces of early-twentieth-century furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Eye of the Beholder] Reference
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