How To Use 1890s In A Sentence

In the 1890s, women some women found they could cast off their impractical and uncomfortable clothing in favour of pantaloons.
By the 1890s, they had installed steam power in order to boost the power from the Frome.
Sitting in her work space, the "hayloft" of her home - a converted 1890s barn - Peach Carr, a Chicagotribune.com -
In fact, the first corpulent words were "porky" in the 1860's; "jumbo" in the 1880's; and "butterball" in the 1890s. Janice Taylor: Fat In America: "Hey, FATSO!"
Football coupon betting spread in the 1890s and Manchester's Athletic News, a football weekly, was selling 180,000 copies by 1896.

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The cancan, that high kicking, exuberant dance of showgirls, originated in Le Moulin Rouge during the 1890s.
The cancan, that high kicking, exuberant dance of showgirls, originated in Le Moulin Rouge during the 1890s.
Until the 1890s, the garden was reserved for the exclusive use of either the monarch or selected courtiers.
Signac's pastorals indicate that in the 1890s the Latin heritage so closely allied to the Midi could have associations other than with the political right, and Signac made these other correlations palpable in his art.
By the mid-1890s, such rhythms were being applied to both the standard form of the march and to the song form.
A late survival of the large marchpane, in modified form, was ‘Dublin Rock’, a sweet dish of the 1890s.
Frank Sheldon Anthony, a pioneering exponent of the New Zealand comic yarn, lived as a backblocks farmer in south Taranaki from the 1890s till 1924.
Invented in the 1890s, the multitool is more useful now than it ever was: Its flashlight yes, some have lights can help you search through a backpack filled with charging cables to find your keys; its screwdriver is always handy when you need to open your PC for a RAM upgrade and its blades will slice through any of those blister packs that mummify electronics. Bold Folds
A devastating depression shook the country in the first half of the 1890s, forcing some 16,000 businesses to fail in 1893 alone.
Beginning in the late 1890s, the new photomechanical process of halftone printing contributed to an astounding growth of illustrated mass-market newspapers and magazines.
As such, the 1880s and 1890s found dandyism once more of good repute. The Dandy | Edwardian Promenade
Courtesy of Sotheby's New Ireland figure of man with outstretched arms (circa 1880s-1890s). Oceanic Art's captivating collection
Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s.
For example, if you like the idea of being playfully seduced by 1890s Parisian floozies, you may want to catch A Night at the Moulin Rouge.
Ladies began to carve out a separate, independent life of their own by the late 1890s, and there came to London a proliferation of clubs catering specifically to gentlewomen of rank and means. London’s Ladies’ Clubs | Edwardian Promenade
Western colonies of radical workers sprang up in the 1880s and 1890s.
Anglomania was pretty rife in aristocratic Paris, and the author of my main source (Cornelia Otis Skinner) was an expert on 1890s/1900s Parisian society. The Tea Gown | Edwardian Promenade
Brown-Séquard's advocacy gave rise to a renewed interest in the 1890s in what was now called ‘organotherapy’: the use of extracts of animal organs as therapeutic agents.
In the 1890s the Populist movement demanded stronger government intervention into the economy, including the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen to one.
Beginning in the 1890s fashionable ladies wore lorgnettes on elegant occasions.
A round-trip ticket from America to Europe in the 1890s cost no more than a moderately priced bicycle.
Once large-caliber explosive shells become the norm in the 1880s and 1890s, however, it was rare for the resistive power of a ship's armor to equal the penetrative power of its biggest guns.
Duchamp's brother Raymond was a medical intern in the 1890s at a hospital where Albert Londe pioneered X-ray photography in France.
This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary.
By the 1890s, there were half a dozen transcontinental railways.
Cranialsacral therapy developed from cranial osteopathy, which was founded by Andrew Taylor Still and dates back to the 1890s.
They are related to similarly proportioned glassware made in the 1890s, but the delicate tints and precarious attenuation are markers of preciosity and refinement.
By the late 1890s, he had developed a successful commercial film production and processing business.
The last genuinely new artistic genres, the photograph and the moving picture, appeared in the 1820s and the 1890s respectively — or maybe in 1879, with Eadweard Muybridge's zoopraxiscope. The New New Thing: Same As It Ever Was
The homosexual demimonde of the 1880s and 1890s will certainly feature in some of my stories, but these aren't in any sense "gay murder mysteries. Gyles Brandreth Answers Questions about the Oscar Wilde Mysteries
During the 1890s he became Australian correspondent for several London newspapers.
The 1890s and early 1900s saw a series of bitter conflicts associated with drives for union recognition.
Until the 1890s, the black regiments served almost entirely at remote western frontier posts.
By the late 1890s he had completed the south and north moles, and the new harbour was ready to receive the great P & O liners.
All that we have to show for nearly six decades of post-colonial art is a single monumental conspectus: an indispensable, if idiosyncratically argued, overview of art in India from the 1890s to the 1990s.
By the 1890s aseptic surgery - performed in a germ-free surgical area with sterilized equipment - became the norm in American surgery.
While toiling as a St. Louis washerwoman during the 1890s, she began to go bald.
Beginning in the 1890s fashionable ladies wore lorgnettes on elegant occasions.
After a prolonged agricultural depression lifted in the 1890s, the worst of rural poverty was finally dispelled.
The idea of using scrip to stimulate spending dates back to the 1890s, when Silvio Gesell wrote a series of books related to monetary system reform.
Inshoot “Inshoot” was a term popular in the 1890s. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
The sanctuary has apparently been reburied since the 1890s.
I knew that H. G. Wells (along with authors such as Jules Verne) was a sci-fi pioneer with 1890s novels such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, but I had never heard of the 1901 Moon.
Economic historian Barry Eichengreen of the University of California at Berkeley notes that in the 19th century, the word connoted extended periods of declining prices: for example, between the 1870s and the mid-1890s. You Call this a Depression?
Compared to the early struggles, the strikes of the 1890s manifested a significantly higher level of consciousness among the workers.
Invented in the 1890s, the multitool is more useful now than it ever was: Its flashlight yes, some have lights can help you search through a backpack filled with charging cables to find your keys; its screwdriver is always handy when you need to open your PC for a RAM upgrade and its blades will slice through any of those blister packs that mummify electronics. Bold Folds
It has now become clear how extraordinarily fecund a decade was the 1890s.
It is suggested that the example of French bimetallism and its success between 1850 and 1870 provided a success story to which bimetallists in the 1890s could refer.
Nevertheless, a brochure promoting the island in the 1890s stated: ‘Here may the invalid laze the hours away and, book in hand, become intoxicated with the splendour of the scenery and the sounds of the unceasing sea’.
Osgood (1875-1947) gained his reputation as an ornithologist and specialized during the 1890s in oology, but in 1897 he joined the then US Bureau of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy (later to become the US Biological Survey) and embarked on significant collecting trips to California and Alaska. Archive 2006-03-01
Trade card collecting became a popular pastime during the 1880s until chromos were replaced by color magazine advertisements in the 1890s.
All that we have to show for nearly six decades of post-colonial art is a single monumental conspectus: an indispensable, if idiosyncratically argued, overview of art in India from the 1890s to the 1990s.
Born between the early 1890s and the 1930s, all grew up poor, most came from farming families, and many were sharecroppers.
By the 1890s, the island had become one of the most fashionable resorts on the East Coast.
A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew — often served, like chipped beef, over toast — that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s. How To Cook Salmi Of Wild Duck
During the depressions of the 1890s and 1930s this system of private charity virtually broke down.
After 1884, some bolters became Democrats and helped revive Democratic strength in New England in the early 1890s.
The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation, although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist.
Hogeland's idea was scorned or ignored in the larger, more prosperous metropolitan centers in the 1890s.
The roots of jazz date back to around the 1890s when a blend of African music from the slaves on the plantations was coupled with European-American musical traditions.
Newspaper rotogravure ushered in the photojournalism age in the 1890s; movies soon followed; and finally television, and typographic language shriveled before each new wave. Mark Twain
This was the crisis faced by Progressive reformers of the 1890s, and particularly by mayor William Strong, who initiated a series of public health improvements directed largely at this unserved population.
He worked as a journalist in the 1890s, and took an active role in discussions among liberal and socialist intellectuals.
In the late 1890s coin-operated phonographs using cylinders were the order of the day.
In the late nineteenth century, feminism, suffrage, political action, self-culture and self-help devolved in the women’s club movement, which enjoyed a heyday from the 1890s through the 1920s. Lifting As We Climb: the Women’s Club Movement | Edwardian Promenade
Born and raised in the Anglosphere middle class of the 1890s Dorothy in upstate New York, Rebecca outside London, they decided early on that living authentically meant breaking free of the web of social conventions summed up by the phrase "Victorian morality. Parallel Lives
We still have a mid-1890s picture of half-starved Abraham, an army drummer boy, standing in a Czarist uniform.
Cycling on banked tracks is one of the oldest forms of the sport, dating back to the track-racing boom of the 1890s in Europe.
The mansion features 18th-century plasterwork by Michael Stapleton, spectacular neoclassical columns and a gilded frieze contributed, in the 1890s, by the architect Alfred Darbyshire and a 1991 stained-glass window by Michael Judd with images of Swift, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats and other indispensable figures. Celebrating the Mordant, Witty and Darkly Romantic
But as popular and lucrative as cure-all patent medicines were in the 1890s, they failed to generate the kind of money to which his lifestyle aspired.
The price of wheat - France's staple crop - fell by a third between the 1870s and 1890s, putting many farmers out of business.
Before the 1890s, the United States had no music this catchy: all the popular tunes Abraham Lincoln knew consisted of marches, jigs, and waltzes.
Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s.
The song, from which I removed the family name, was published in the 1890s, and bewailed the loss of the family name, in the 17th century, by Royal proscription.
By the 1890s, they had installed steam power in order to boost the power from the Frome.
The exterior will be authentically restored to its original 1890s character.
The development of salpingectomy cutting and tying the fallopian tubes and vasectomy in the 1890s provided a relatively simple and safe technology. The Mad Among Us
Before the invention of the gramophone and flat-disc records in the late 1890s music and songs were recorded on wax cylinders and played on machines called phonographs, invented by Thomas Edison.
The coat, skirt, and blouse came into fashion as a practical day dress only in the 1890s.
War widows and widowers will receive more generous payouts, and rights are to be extended to same-sex partners, under the biggest shake-up of armed forces pensions since the 1890s.
Homo erectus was then known only from fossils discovered in Java in the 1890s—although the remains a jawbone, skullcap, thighbone, and two teeth were initially classified as Pithecanthropus erectus, or the “erect ape man.” Ancestral Passions
By the 1890s the domestic frontier was exhausted, and expansionism took Americans into territories overseas.
A century later, in the 1890s, it became an English word referring to a titbit of this kind.
In the 1890s he made wintertime depictions of haystacks.
Marcel Stanley's brief compilation on Alfred Ernest Cousins, an engraver and die-sinker who prepared the dies for many of New Zealand's postage stamps in the 1890s, reproduces various relevant documents as a brochure for the 1980 New Zealand International Stamp Exhibition. Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand
Throughout the 1890s, Korean colporteurs worked with missionaries to distribute texts throughout the country.
Bella Button was a skilled horsewoman who drove winners in a number of races in the 1890s until the South Island Trotting Association resolved that only men would be allowed to drive at meetings.
There is no doubt Monet's work of the 1890s is a supreme achievement and his early Impressionist paintings from 1870 to 1877 are fascinatingly experimental.
In the early 1890s, she became a leading exponent of the religious movement of theosophy (emphasizing an individual spiritual awareness of God), and went to live in India.
He worked as a journalist in the 1890s, and took an active role in discussions among liberal and socialist intellectuals.
primitive movies of the 1890s
During the 1890s there was a vogue for things Spanish that encompassed everything from music and dancing to flamenco dresses.
This contained the first statement of his views on collectivism, which made an impact on the Liberal Party in the 1890s through ‘New Liberalism’.
That begins to radicalize people, whether it is farmers, or workers in the 1890s, or the millions of people who lost everything from nest eggs in banks to jobs during the Depression.
The 1890s and early 1900s saw a series of bitter conflicts associated with drives for union recognition.
In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force.
The rise of mass-circulation monthly magazines with an appreciative, national middle-class audience in the 1890s brought yet another sign of the reporter's authority: muckraking.
Of course, by the 1890s, French vanguard painting was shown by forward-looking galleries such as Cassirer, in Berlin, so there were ample opportunities for encounters with influential work even after the three returned to Germany. Nature With a German Accent
The cohesion of parties in the division lobbies of the House dates from the 1890s and reached its peak in the 1950s.
This methanation reaction is a simple, straightforward chemical process that has been practiced in industry since the 1890s. The Case for Mars
He and his allies have pointed out that looking abroad for precedents is not new for the Court: in cases from the 1950s through the 1980s (and also during the 1890s) majorities took account of foreign practices in deciding whether a punishment was permissible. What Would Zimbabwe Do?
Conquest and annexation of Zululand was completed only in the 1890s.
However, it was the abstemious Chartist family, the Cranstons, who really put the coffee houses' adversaries, the Glasgow tea rooms, on the map in the 1890s.
Italian politics tended toward deadlock, especially from the 1890s through 1920s.
In the early 1890s, a series of brutal winters decimated the cattle industry.
In the 1890s Montrealers bought milk, ice, bread, buns, fries and popcorn from itinerant street vendors.
The growth of unions and the serious industrial conflicts of the mid-1890s led the government into systematic intervention in labour relations.
In the 1890s the barbette mounting for coastal-defense guns became the preferred pattern.
Masaryk was an eminent liberal scholar who stood out against the Catholic-led anti-semitic hysteria of the 1890s.
As the pace of industrialization quickened in the 1890s, in tandem with a mounting agrarian slump assailing gentry and peasants alike, new social groups emerged and focused an inchoate but widespread discontent.
Free balloons carrying meteorographs came into use in the 1890s. After a predetermined time, the meteograph instrument package would be released and descend on a parachute.
The bandsaw itself is from the 1850s - 1890s, and it is 40″ (the wheel diameter), which gives it a massive throat, and it has a significant resaw capacity. Stu's Shed
His brilliant epigrams and shrewd social observations brought him theatrical success in the early 1890s with The Importance Of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman Of No Importance and An Ideal Husband.
By the 1890s, the US government was sending out millions of packages containing packets of several different seeds each year.
By the 1890s civil servants had become obliged to retire on reaching pensionable age.
As for Alfred Tennyson Dickens, broken in the depression of the 1890s, a firm of theatrical producers of Melbourne would ultimately organise tours of Britain and America where he read from his father's work and expatiated on his father's life. Travel: Dickens down under
The crouched racing position and drop handlebars have been used since the 1890s. Times, Sunday Times
Masterpieces of the "verismo" ( "realism") movement in 1890s Italian opera, both works expose a palette of "raw colors that get the heart and blood pumping fast," Yang says. Undefined
Earnestness was a quality the mid-Victorians adulated above all others (which was precisely why Oscar Wilde was prepared to be so irreverent towards it in the 1890s).
Here, at one of the Winter Range shoots, this California cowboy has donned a ‘Montana pinch’ hat, bib front shirt, galluses, and an original pair of circa 1890s wooly shotgun chaps, along with his square-toed boots, California-pattern spurs, wild rag, and Colt Peacemaker and frontier-era gunleather.
The present-day style of bicycle was rapidly replacing their penny-farthing bicycle during the 1890s.
For these reasons, in the 1890s the term guinea, which had been used for slaves from the coast of West Africa, was applied to Italian Americans. A Renegade History of the United States
He was on personal terms with every viceroy and vicereine and their staffs in the period between the 1890s and 1930s, and was awarded an Indian knighthood in 1929.
In the 1870s, and even more in the 1880s and 1890s, the need to sacralize politics and squeeze out the rival religions of Catholicism and socialism was keenly felt by many within Italy's ruling elite.
Even vaudeville theaters ranged in price between ten cents and a dollar in the 1890s, and they attracted thousands of working-class visitors each year.

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