You know the system we have now, unchanged since the mid-twentieth-century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 12, 2003 - January 18, 2003 Archives] Reference

Their worldview, however, was mired in mid-twentieth-century power politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juan Cole: Obama in Asia: Meeting American Decline Face to Face] Reference

The mid-twentieth-century economy, of course, was alive and well in Indiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interstate 69] Reference

And Rogers, for all its veneer of being a mid-twentieth-century town, was full of smart objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 12.1 of 31.1] Reference

In "Sunday" Howard Nemerov, a mid-twentieth-century American poet, offers a gloomy view of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peculiar Life of Sundays] Reference

I also dislike on similar grounds the ‘picture window’ common to so many mid-twentieth-century dwellings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Clusterflock: Sex on the screen, how is it for you? | clusterflock] Reference

The mid-twentieth-century Jamaican movement for self-government produced a flurry of cultural nationalist programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Warren: This Week in Magazines: The "Test Madness" of Our Medical Lives] Reference

The sponge-throwing Protogenes, were his story better known today, would be the ideal hero of many mid-twentieth-century artists.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHANCE IMAGES] Reference

IV POLIKARTOS'S office was on the fifteenth floor of an ancient, nondescript mid-twentieth-century structure over on Thirty-third.    From Wordnik.com.  [The I Inside]

A poltical theory dissertation ripe for the writing, it seems to me, concerns the turn to skepticism in the mid-twentieth-century liberals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob T. Levy] Reference

Amongst the mid-twentieth-century atomic age décor, he saw no overt signs of surveillance, or even tags that indicated microscopic cameras or mikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 13.1 of 31.1] Reference

Part II of this article are the product of philosophical analysis by many mid-twentieth-century thinkers, a number of whom have already been referred to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Thomas Carlyle once said that magazine work is below street-sweeping as a trade, but in mid-twentieth-century New York it was a reasonably respectable calling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]

He poses a critical dilemma that can be resolved only by seeing his dazzling novels as paradoxical products of the conditions of mid-twentieth-century Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oblomov in Dublin] Reference

These unique local conditions were once celebrated by the mid-twentieth-century architects who built there before the profession was seduced by air-­conditioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Is Everybody Tearing Down Paul Rudolph Houses and Buildings? | Inhabitat] Reference

Because he was so important to the struggle for racial integration in the United States, it is easy to label him simply as a "mid-twentieth-century American integrationist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King Is For Everybody, Not Just Black People; His Powerful Ideas Can Guide Us All Today.] Reference

Born in the disaster of World War II and brought up in the disaster of mid-twentieth-century America, none of us was bred in the world of Wilfred Owen, or of Stephen Spender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cultural Barbarians?] Reference

As indicated by the above characterization of the mid-twentieth-century American movement, naturalism can intuitively be separated into an ontological and a methodological component.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturalism] Reference

I had read Alan Villiers 'Sons of Sinbad and Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands, mid-twentieth-century accounts of British explorers who recorded ways of life that were fast disappearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homage to Oman] Reference

For O'Brien, in the soporific culture of mid-twentieth-century Ireland, the novel itself is a kind of sleep, a way of being neither dead nor alive and thus of drawing energy from entropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oblomov in Dublin] Reference

Protecting the long-term integrity of the economic system from the exploitation of short-term Ponzi schemers with their derivatives and their garbage loans was so mid-twentieth-century, you know?.    From Wordnik.com.  [So, How'd You Like Your Beer?] Reference

The preeminent mid-twentieth-century American short story writers seem to us now brilliantly inspired regionalists, though it would have been difficult to see them as such at the time they were writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from Everywhere] Reference

It is also part of the mid-twentieth-century emphasis on communi - cation, as this term refers to the dynamic interrelation - ships between mind and mind that language and out - ward signs fail to convey.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMPATHY] Reference

Here the addition seems to become part of a larger, mid-twentieth-century remodel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecology of Absence] Reference

Nikolais was the magician of mid-twentieth-century modern dance, setting shapes and colors in kaleidoscopic motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

"Liberal" and "conservative" were the standards around which many of the great political combattants of the mid-twentieth-century rallied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Policy Watch] Reference

The IPCC announces that from the mid-twentieth-century, "very likely" the observed CO2-induced global warming, from greenhouse gases, is man-made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State] Reference

A master and pioneer of mid-twentieth-century abstract expressionism, painter Clyfford Still was something of an eccentric in the artist-as-egomaniac stripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westword | Complete Issue] Reference

Hillenbrand has a gift for recovering the spirit of mid-twentieth-century America - its despair, sure, but also its humor and its graceful refusal to put on airs.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

The Skylark's penchant for mid-twentieth-century pop culture is clear in its jukebox collection, a diverse catalogue that spotlights giants from a wealth of genres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westword | Complete Issue] Reference

They were in a mid-twentieth-century hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Will Be Time]

For the mid-twentieth-century.    From Wordnik.com.  [CJR] Reference

Volksgeist-this for both Riesman's mid-twentieth-century purposes and my present early twenty-first-century ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFF Doublethink Online] Reference