The Hoover Institution Archives contains the personal papers of many of the past century's most notable public figures. |
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The loss of a public commons in broadcasting must be counted as one of the twentieth century's great civic and cultural losses. |
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It's a small pub, with sawdust on the floor and wood paneling aged with a century's worth of beer. |
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The late 20th century's decline of social deference has led to a journalism which is unforgiving of the elite and its deviations. |
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Generally, however, Scots was displaced in all types of writing by English and even the traces of it all but disappeared by century's end. |
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Each is accompanied by the author's informative commentary which ranges from Roman roads to last century's shopkeepers. |
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One of last century's most potent literary and political figures is put under the microscope in this prize-winning biography. |
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Random events from the 20th century emerge from a mistily revolving world as the century's years stream past. |
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Giorgio Armani is widely regarded as one of the 20th century's preeminent fashion designers. |
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Marc Chagall, who died in 1985 at the age of 98, is considered to be one of the twentieth century's great masters and sophisticated colourists. |
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Can they escape the clutches of the next century's power mad phone company? |
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For a musical about one the century's most original artists, there was a whole lot of derivative going on. |
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It is the result of more than a century's capitalist accumulation of power and concentration of wealth. |
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After all, who'da thunk Danse Macabre would be unexpectedly reincarnated after a quarter century's silence? |
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At century's end, historian Frederick Jackson Turner saw the closing of the frontier as the end of an epoch in American history. |
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Twentieth century's final years witnessed some cataclysmic events unprecedented in history. |
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It feels like the century's chasing us, like having a hellhound on your trail. |
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This trend lent intellectual heft to an earlier movement, the vocational education movement of the 20th century's first decades. |
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This is the story of Emma Albani, a woman from Chambly, Quebec who rose to become one of the late 19th century's greatest opera divas. |
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He offers his, and indeed the century's, standard example of clocks which may have various internal mechanisms to produce the same outer effects. |
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This century's leap into aviation and space travel has brought with it a much deeper understanding of the human ability to function at altitude. |
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George Evans has had a half century's involvement with Nepal, both as an Officer in the Gurkhas and as a correspondent. |
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First, she identifies a number of key contributors to the century's economic debates. |
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It might also be seen as a prologue to the twentieth century's proliferation of apocalyptic literary imagery. |
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They offer a unique insight into the mind of one of the 20th century's greatest poets. |
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With Armistice Day in mind, Andrew Hitchon travels to northern France to visit reminders of last century's two great wars. |
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Yet if this most deceitful of the 20th century's killers is calculating on forgiveness, he may be deceiving himself. |
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And the Berkeley name for element 104, rutherfordium, was surely an honour due to one of the century's greatest nuclear physicists. |
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With the numerous annotations and all the other aids that one expects in this series one has here an invaluable guide to one of the nineteenth century's greatest novels. |
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The artist's style combines heroic realism with a restrained delicacy of expression that places him among the best of the century's monument makers. |
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Neal Ascherson, chronicler of the great events in postwar Europe, spent the past week in court assessing a case that goes to the heart of the last century's worst crime. |
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With this century's explosiveness this no longer seems possible. |
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But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence. |
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His wistful brand of traditional American roots music is deeply embedded in mysticism and keenly embodies the stature of the early 20th century's lonely, nomadic soul. |
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The guitar was the 20th century's most popular instrument by miles. |
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The banana seat, the cab-over-engine truck, and the fabulous pursuit plane were all designed by one of last century's preeminent designers, Viktor Schreckengost. |
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In one of the essays, Feynman, who is one of the 20th century's smartest people, cautions against just this sort of thing in talking about the teaching of science to children. |
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During nearly half a century's worth of participation in the cat fancy, she had written her name in large, florid letters across its record books. |
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Jespersen later supplied phonetic transcriptions of the entries in Brynildsen's English and Dano-Norwegian Dictionary, which was the century's first pronouncing dictionary. |
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These minor debacles are just symptoms of a larger ailment, one that has afflicted over a century's worth of politicians on every level and for which there is no end in sight. |
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The next century's discoveries would prove them right or wrong. |
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The World Bank is in a unique position to help stop land grabs becoming one of the century's biggest scandals. |
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Guldenstadt's journey to Caucasia was an extremely significant expedition from the standpoint of the 18th century's Russian empire. |
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His proud association with the Kennedy family sigil ironically created his chief limitation as an actor in the century's great events. |
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The lives of two of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber, were similar in many ways. |
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Though often dismissed as an erratic flibbertigibbet, Jean Cocteau was one of the twentieth century's great agents provocateurs. |
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The rate of soul-searching articles multiplied after a number of well-established figures lost their jobs in this century's first decade. |
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They raised their naval strength from a mere 11 squadrons of 3,000 marines to 20 squadrons of 52,000 marines in a century's time. |
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For example, Wittgenstein would become one of the century's fiercest critics of Scientism. |
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He is generally regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers of science. |
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Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. |
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They were also collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the twentieth century's 100 most influential people. |
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During this period the previous century's gradual unravelling of republican institutions accelerated rapidly. |
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Modern popular dance music initially emerged from late 19th century's Western ballroom and social dance music. |
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He is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians. |
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In fact, legitimacy should be pluralised, for the Socialists were not merely trying to appropriate the legacy of the previous century's extreme Left. |
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Tennessee Williams is well established as one of the 20th century's great playwrights, but his play Baby Doll has taken a long and roundabout route to the British stage. |
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