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Historian David M. Kennedy credits Only Yesterday with shaping "our understanding of American life in the 1920s" for more than half a century. Kennedy's 1986 analysis of the book points out gaps in Only Yesterday , noting that Allen fails to examine the lives and stories of immigrants, the Blacks remaining in the south, or the millions of ...
Walk softly but carry a big stick (26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, 1900 in letter relating an old African proverb) [32] Walls have ears; Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs; Waste not, want not; Well begun is half done; What does not kill me makes me stronger; Well done is better than well said; What cannot be cured must be endured
Edwin Rushton, half a century after Joseph Smith's death, described what would become known as the White Horse Prophecy. In 1844, Smith rejected the platforms of the major candidates for president of the United States and decided to conduct his own third-party campaign [4] [12] which was cut short by his murder on June 27 that year.
Cutting out this phrase from a half-century-old law would save homebuyers $175,000 and help tackle the housing crisis, economists say Jason Ma May 25, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Dante is depicted (bottom, centre) in Andrea di Bonaiuto's 1365 fresco Church Militant and Triumphant in the Santa Maria Novella church, Florence. In 1373, a little more than half a century after Dante's death, the Florentine authorities softened their attitude to him and decided to establish a department for the study of the Divine Comedy.
Raymond Alan Whyberd (18 September 1930 – 24 May 2010) was an English ventriloquist, television entertainer, and writer.His career spanned over half a century, though he was most popular from the 1950s until the 1980s.
Usually composing the music while others handled the lyrics, Silver wrote for half a century, starting with World War I–era songs such as 1918's "You Can't Blame the Girlies (They All Want to Marry a Soldier)," and continuing through the decades with such classics as 1921's "I'm Going South", 1925's "Chasing Shadows" and 1940's "How Did He Look?"