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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
Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, 1815 – July 22, 1884) was an American Radical Republican journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate. She was one of America's first female journalists hired by Horace Greeley at his New York Tribune. [1]
There were also special terms for quarter , half , and three-quarters . Dodrans is a Latin contraction of de-quadrans which means "a whole unit less a quarter" (de means "from"; quadrans means "quarter"). Thus for the example of 175 years, the term is a quarter century less than the next whole (bi)century or 175 = (−25 + 200).
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. Getty Images.
Toggle 20th-century subsection. 2.1 1900s–1950s. 2.2 1960s–1970s. 2.3 1980s. 2.4 1990s. 3 21st-century. ... This is not necessarily a list of historical quotes ...
Opinion: Iowa women's basketball started 50 years ago; Patrick Muller looks at progress in that time in science (and in Hawkeye hoops, too).
Coffee prices hit the highest in half a century due to supply issues and bad weather. Brazil's drought and heavy rains are impacting coffee production, causing supply concerns.
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.