How To Use 1930s In A Sentence

  • The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight. Dispatch.com: RSS
  • Another modern attempt to make a classic 1930s screwball comedy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The book is a sustained diatribe questioning Churchill's actions from the early 1930s through 1941.
  • Not incidentally — one of the best 1930s fake-modern piano concerti ever tossed into a film. Proof through the night
  • Certain heat treatments alter the fine-scale structure of steel, creating a "phase" known as bainite - which has been known about since the 1930s. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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  • In the 1930s, the universe had been shown to be expanding, so the cosmological constant seemed to be erroneous.
  • Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
  • Australian physiologist Frank Cotton played a central role in the evolution of the aviation garment in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • By the early 1930s grand juries were generally agreed to have outlived their usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
  • The small collection of tops and skirts, based loosely on 1930s Chinese dresses, is elegant and demure, a long way from boho - the floaty skirts, peasant tops and leather disk belts her sister had us all wearing last summer.
  • There was a slackening of western output during the 1930s.
  • During her heyday from the 1920s to the 1930s, unconventional artist Carmen Mondragón was demonized in much the same way as the fire-breathing creature of legends past. The Fiery Spirit Of Carmen Mondragon
  • The way in which the various issues that come to light here connect to the question of world, transcendence, and the conceallng-unconcealing of truth is somewhat tangled, and, in the period of the late 1920s, and even into the early 1930s, is not yet clearly worked out in Heldegger’s thinking. Enowning
  • Thousands of tulips, pansies and forget-me-nots, together with venerable lilacs, wisteria, spireas and deutzias (many from the 1930s Annette Hoyt Flanders renovation) dominate the spring show of flowers.
  • He described it in the 1930s as the richest bird habitat in peninsular India, comparable only with the Eastern Himalayas.
  • Set in Los Angeles of the 1930s, it depicts a dark and uncertain world, a world of pornographers and gamblers.
  • ‘Just Folks’ is yet another Roth reversal: FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps was the actual (if benign) means of rusticating urban boys in the 1930s.
  • Rapturous joy was remindful of religious euphoria, as in Pentecostal women of the 1930s.
  • It took searing depression to break the self-delusion in the 1930s. The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton
  • When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs.
  • Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS. Teutonic Temptations
  • In the 1930s, American politics were characterized by isolationism in foreign policy and a preoccupation with internal affairs.
  • From the outside, our 1930s semi is a bit of a monster: part pebbledashed and completely flat-fronted. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 1930s became the classic decade of Imperial spectaculars.
  • Plotz deftly neuters Graham's ridiculous eugenics, putting his noxious opinions in their historical context of the KKK and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s.
  • Even the tsotsis, the unkempt street ruffians of the 1930s, began to embrace the quest for style in the 1950s.
  • Throughout the 1920s and the early 1930s, Fighter Command (as it eventually came to be called) was the Cinderella of the Air Ministry. 'With Wings Like Eagles'
  • In the latest issue of Symmetry, a magazine about particle physics, I've traced the chain of scientific developments in the 1930s and 1940s that inspired Williamson to write his "Seetee" tales -- if not the first, certainly the most influential stories to explore the physics of "contraterrene" (CT) matter. Boing Boing
  • This is the lesson of the 1930s, which Republican/libertarian/right-wing propaganda has striven mightily, and successfully, to erase from the American memory, allowing it to happen all over again. xearther Bush Team Seeks Dictatorial Financial Powers « Antiwar.com Blog
  • One must look back to the early 1930s to find such a dramatic reversal.
  • Unemployment reached the highest levels since the 1930s. Wages fell by the greatest amount in a century.
  • In contrast, the dress code was strictly 1930s gangster chic, with the men in pinstripes and fedoras while the women sported shawls and feathered caps.
  • Then the great depression of the 1930s ruined the economy and Prince Industries' stock took a plummeting nosedive.
  • Further economic decline set in during the 1930s.
  • In the late 1930s and 1940s, Dorothy Snell, as she was then known, competed and won medals at the national level in novice, junior and senior competitions. Dorothy S. Curtis; Capitol Hill aide, skater
  • Paynter, however, was not uninfluenced by what he had heard and observed, and he began to voice a new note in this connection during the early 1930s.
  • The world-wide success of "Suite Fran aise" is a kind of bookend to N mirovsky's success in the 1930s, when she made a name for herself in France by writing a work very different in tone and intention. A Writer's Contradictions
  • The CCF is the successor of the Officers Training Corps, in which the young Terence Troy served as a schoolboy in the late 1930s, before escaping from Jersey in 1940, just before the Occupation, to enlist in the British Army. Archive 2008-09-01
  • One manifestation of this was the hypothesized existence of orgone which, as Wiki says, entailed: ... an extrapolation of the Freudian concept of libido as a physical, bioenergetic force, developed by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich in the late 1930s, who generalized and abstracted it far beyond Freud's semi-metaphoric use. Archive 2008-09-01
  • Public transport patronage in Sydney and Melbourne more than quintupled between 1890 and 1930 but slumped in the 1930s.
  • Then there's this oyster pink backless evening gown, from the mid-1930s. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is little interest in standard terraced houses or 1930s semis on the fringes of holiday destinations. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trophy is a 1930s theodolite - which was used for surveying work - and is presented by the institution every year.
  • Open landfills had attracted negative publicity in the 1920s and 1930s and for the most part had been cleaned up.
  • Auguste Piccard conceived the bathyscaphe in the 1930s but became distracted by the allure of high-altitude ballooning.
  • The filing caps a long fall for A & P, a prominent company that started as a New York tea and spice shop in the 1800s and grew to become the U.S. ' s first national supermarket chain with 16,000 stores by the 1930s. A
  • The Great Depression of the 1930s -- the last time the term rightly applied -- was industrial capitalism's worst calamity. You Call this a Depression?
  • This 1930s musical is being revived at the National Theatre.
  • Most of the settlers arrived in Jalan Raja Uda in the 1920s and 1930s from Kwangchow, a sub-provincial city that is the capital of Guangdong province in southern China. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • Though 19th century translators of Buddhist texts sometimes used the word "enlightenment" to refer to Gautama's moment of spiritual awakening on seeing the morning star, the first time a large number of general English readers saw the word used as a spiritual term was with the publication Essays on Zen Buddhism First Series by D.T. Suzuki in the 1930s. Lewis Richmond: A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment'
  • Known as the “Statue of Libby,” she carried one of the smokiest torches of American music hall society in the 1920s and 1930s, and was the inventor of the strapless evening dress. Libby Holman.
  • Wingsuits were developed in the 1930s, but 72 'birdmen' died in tests over the next 30 years. The Sun
  • It was no mistake that the only decade to rival the 1930s in terms of prolonged market malaise was the 1970s, another era defined by interventionist wage and price policies.
  • You say, "Whereupon they will view the present coolist campaign as badly as the 1930s appeasement of German power. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • By the start of the 1930s, the old primitive concept of statism, dominant throughout the monarchist age in Europe, began to reemerge.
  • Perhaps it was as well that continental drift was so profoundly unfashionable in the 1920s and 1930s. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • HARVEY: Well, as a matter of fact, I can remember in the 1930s, when the United Nations was called the League of Nations until it ignored the intrusion of Japan into Manchuria and China, until it ignored the intrusion of Italy into Ethiopia, until it failed to recognize Hitler for what he was, publicly tearing up the Versailles Treaty. CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2009
  • With the advent of the autochrome process (in its 100th anniversary in 2003), then Kodachrome and Agfacolor in the late 1930s, photographs became colorful but the process was mainly limited to commercial photography.
  • The recessive 1930s brought the reversal of this globalism while a new one was later formed during the Cold War.
  • So racy is/was the content that in the 1930s the book could not even have been legally shipped through the US mail!
  • Layoffs have dropped to pre-recession levels and employers have slowly resumed hiring as the economy recovers from the worst recession since the 1930s. Jobless claims drop for 3rd week; productivity jumps
  • Well what a surprise. 11am Radio 4 gives Billy Bragg a full half hour to prattle on about some obscure 1930s pacifists/ conchies / commune dwellers. Open thread
  • Widely available since the 1930s, instant coffee is produced commercially by brewing ground freshly roasted coffee to a strong concentrate.
  • Tiny things will make everyday pieces look overscaled 1930s. Times, Sunday Times
  • M3 was converted into a minelayer and later scrapped in the 1930s.
  • Union leaders, however, said the action recalled the techniques of violence and intimidation used against the longshoremen during their attempts to unionize in the 1930s.
  • But by the 1930s, Keynes became more concerned about the damage that the nonproductive rentier was doing to capitalism.
  • Even the tsotsis, the unkempt street ruffians of the 1930s, began to embrace the quest for style in the 1950s.
  • The refined and leisured lifestyle from the 1920s and 1930s can be relived when viewers appreciate the varied designs of their mandarin gowns and the way they made themselves up.
  • The disorder was aggravated by the economic depression of the 1930s.
  • But from about the seventeenth century until the 1930s, we were called dab hands. White Cat
  • The German people in the 1930s and 1940s were systematically brainwashed on National Socialist racist propaganda that portrayed the Jews as "Untermensch" - a subhuman scourge that was responsible for the woes of Germany and needed to be eradicated. Latest News
  • Some literalist is probably at this moment self-inflicting a herniated disc with head-shaking and complaining that anabolic steroids weren't synthesized until around the 1930s. Archive 2007-11-01
  • According to data provided by the Histadrut, the minimum wage for a man working in industry in the mid-1930s was twenty Erez-Israel grush (grush = 10 mils; 1,000 mils = one Palestine pound) per day, as distinct from twelve grush or less per day for a woman. Histadrut.
  • The second case took place in the 1950s, by which time the reformism of the 1930s had sunk into a stultifying coalition: francophone religious and political elites allied with anglophone elites in business.
  • Early in the 1930s, Jack found a comfortable niche in radio, going on the air for the first time in March 1932.
  • The furniture, mainly bought in the 1920s and 1930s, includes an early George III mahogany breakfront bookcase estimated at £7,000 to £10,000 and other pieces by Gillows.
  • What is more, it is as simple as the solution which, after the Second World War, we applied to correct the economic and other miseries that had plagued us during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
  • Women apparently began performing in barbershop style in the 1930s & 1940s.
  • Many came to work at the House of State during the trying 1930s. Among them were skilled sheet metal workers who refaced the capitol's copper dome.
  • Li Chang-Zhi is a famous esthetician, literature theoretician and critic who grew up in the 1930s to 1940s in Chinese academic circle.
  • The squat 1930s building is almost entirely obscured by huge blast walls and coiled razor wire. Times, Sunday Times
  • NYC was named this because immigrant children played stickball throughout the New York Streets in the 1930s.
  • In the course of the 1930s steel production in Britain approximately doubled.
  • Thus, FDR 'hands were generally tied through the later 1930s by an isolationistic Congress, including Democrats. Undefined
  • Many of the workers and union officials targeted in the witch-hunts had been leaders and initiators of the militant struggles of the 1930s and early 1940s.
  • He claims that his only quarrel is with “the idolatry of woman,” but it is one thing to want to take la femme off her pedestal — assuming she was still on it in the 1930s — and another to assert that when lying on her back during sex she looks “ridiculous … froglike.” Monster of Marriage
  • There was a large increase in cod abundance and catches in the 1920s (Fig. 13.15), and other gadids, such as saithe, haddock, tusk, and ling, previously rare or absent at Greenland, also appeared there in the 1920s and 1930s. Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)
  • The European democracies have received, with overwhelmingly good reason, much obloquy for their failure to take effective measures against fascism in the 1930s.
  • Other wood boards sold for in excess of $10,000 a piece, including a 1950s balsa paddleboard and a redwood plank from the 1930s.
  • Unemployment reached the highest levels since the 1930s.
  • The disorder was aggravated by the economic depression of the 1930s.
  • In the 1930s, when deflation and dictatorship circumscribed the strategies of light industry, employers in wool, cotton, and rayon reverted to a familiar form of company paternalism with the help of sisters on the payroll.
  • Retrospective Diagnosis Using the first technique, researchers found dozens of possible AIDS cases from medical records dating back to the 1930s.
  • When Aramco’s early geologists began exploring for oil in the 1930s, they needed to import radiotelephones. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
  • The 1930s were the era of the detective story, and it had reached its maximum popularity with Edgar Wallace.
  • Her luxurious screens, richly evocative objects in lacquer and striking modernist standalone pieces look as innovative today as they did during the 1920s and 1930s when her career was at its height.
  • From the 1930s the states in turn legalised state lotteries and off-course betting on horse races, and introduced casinos for continuous gambling.
  • This was the kind of thinking that underlay the inspirational movies produced by Warner Brothers in the 1930s for which Variety coined the term "biopic" – films about medical pioneers, democratic revolutionaries and other movers and shakers who changed the world, invariably men MGM's Madame Curie was a rare exception. The Iron Lady – review
  • The way it's served gives it the attention it deserves: Perched in a 1930s egg cup, it becomes an irresistible emerald caviar.
  • In the 1930s, when Bob was a teenager, he was sailing in Narragansett Bay near Waverly Rhode Island in a 22-foot sailboat. Lea Lane: What I Learned from Meeting a Man Who Met Albert Einstein
  • The full range of vices attributed to decadent Roman emperors was to be found in the private dachas and public buildings of 1930s and 1940s Russia.
  • The political energy that fueled organized labor in the 1930s simply doesn't exist at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
  • A distinguished predecessor was Claud Cockburn, who published the news-sheet The Week in the 1930s: which was considered by embassies and mandarins as the most accurate insight into the machinations of the British Empire, as it then was.
  • Once the basic networks were in place, the economic and political convulsions of the 1920s and 1930s led to the second stage.
  • The horsebox was not widely available until the 1930s.
  • Hollywood films played a key role in articulating this antifascist popular nationalism, beginning in the late 1930s with a cycle of films that raised the cry of alarm to the American people about the dangers of fascism and ushered in a new era of "political" filmmaking. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
  • American four-square houses were built between 1890 and the 1930s and were popular across the country. Farmhouse Has New Lot in Life
  • Knap of Howar was first discovered through coastal erosion in the 1930s and was taken into state guardianship.
  • Towards the end of his life he was living in a dilapidated four-bedroom flat in a 1930s mansion block in north London; he would often take his meals at a cafe in Willesden.
  • On the contrary, it made the future less ponderable than it had been since the 1930s.
  • Perhaps it was as well that continental drift was so profoundly unfashionable in the 1920s and 1930s. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • The financial crises of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s had brought capitalism to the edge of extinction.
  • & singing mostly in his native 'Lingala', Niwel performs a range of music that stretches from contemporary versions of Congolese traditional music from the 1930s & 40s to modern Jazz. Irish Blogs
  • The new kit embraces design features including a pinstripe in the shirt and a polo collar inspired by the shirts worn by the all-conquering side of the 1930s. Archive 2009-09-01
  • The 1930s marked a significant change in the Soviet approach to retail trade.
  • Built in the 1930s to protect the road from floods, this is one of the first highways to use reinforced concrete construction. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many of the performers sang labor songs of the 1930s, civil rights songs of the 1960s, peace songs of many decades.
  • He had started a literary bookshop in the 1930s.
  • The established T'ang Quartet, also from Singapore, excelled in two contemporary works, the folk-inspired Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March by yet another 1930s boy, Aulis Sallinen (b 1935), and the third string quartet by Bright Sheng (b 1955) which mixed Chinese and western techniques to nimbly embroidered effect. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review
  • Public transport patronage in Sydney and Melbourne more than quintupled between 1890 and 1930 but slumped in the 1930s.
  • All-night jam sessions were common in Kansas City jazz clubs of the 1930s.
  • Its population peaked at around 66,000 in the 1930s, when the city's beaches and amusements provided much-needed escapism from the Great Depression.
  • By the mid-1930s she was a superstar, singing, lisping and tap-dancing her way through such films as Poor Little Rich Girl and Bright Eyes, in which she famously sang On the Good Ship Lollipop.
  • Then, in the mid-1930s, the People's Commissariat for the Defense Industry was established which was subsequently, under the January 11, 1939 decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, divided up into five separate commissariats.
  • Parallel to the seafront, Castle Avenue is a quirky road of elegant Victorian red-brick houses, 1930s-built semis and modest bungalows.
  • It has been reported since the 1930s that certain heteropterous insects cause damage to wheat cultivars.
  • In the 1930s, which was Motherwell's halcyon period, the team would have consisted almost entirely of local lads.
  • Billed as the story of the first genetically engineered animal, The Red Canary charts the obsession of Hans Duncker and his attempts in the 1930s to alter radically the genetic makeup of wild canaries to create a new species.
  • When you advise a woman to dally with men because they might, in exchange, arrange for that woman “to buy everything from electric blankets to hi-fi records wholesale,” then you have violated the signal code of people who were jolted from the middle class in the 1930s: their ardent desire to behave decently because, for a time in their lives, that behavior was all that separated them from the Helen Gurleys of the world. Sex and the Married Man
  • You can feel the writers trying to create a new evil nemesis for Steed and the crew, and the surreal set designs and hammy acting by the lead bad guy more than makes up for the 1930s era tin man cyborgs.
  • By the 1930s, it had become the dominant paradigm in American experimental psychology.
  • In the mid-1930s she began to attract attention with pictures consisting of flecks of colour against a greyish or neutral background.
  • During the 1930s he spent time in Spain and Africa and resided in Key West, Florida, where he gained a reputation as a sportsman and athlete.
  • When ‘I was a lad’ in the 1920s and 1930s, three activities were illegal on the canal towpaths - throwing stones, cycling and swimming.
  • St Peter's Smithills Dean pupils got into the spirit of things by dressing up in 1930s costume, including flat caps and pinafores, and re-enacted scenes from the photographs.
  • During the depression of the 1920s and 1930s many men found it almost impossible to keep the wolf from the door.
  • Following the First World War, in the 1920s and early 1930s, the cocktail party flourished, with flappers and frivolity going hand in hand.
  • As the 85-year-old Mr Vermes recalls, his Hungarian Jewish parents died in the Holocaust, even though the family, which was not religious, had converted to Catholicism in the 1930s.
  • China's traditional handicraft sector grew slowly but steadily until the silver crisis of the early 1930s.
  • Did you write it in chronological order, or did you keep shifting back and forth between the Korean War period in the early 1950s, New York in the 1980s, and China in the 1930s, as you do in the book? Chang-rae Lee - An interview with author
  • If only more had listened to H.G. Wells when in the 1930s he accurately predicted many of the horrors of what would become WWII. “1984” stood as a warning to all of us, and I would maintain might have helped to avert, at least in part, the threat of “Big Brother.” Wonk Room » Gingrich Pushes Suspense Thriller-Based Foreign Policy
  • The number of grain elevators peaked in the early 1930s and the rapid decline occurs to this day as modern facilities replace and consolidate the locations.
  • He employed thirty to forty men in the mid-1930s and extracted ore from underground workings that were accessed by shafts and declines.
  • Nor did it stop President Roosevelt in the 1930s, during which he declared it illegal to own circulating gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates.
  • Charges of blackmail peaked in the inter-war decades of the 1920s and 1930s and have been declining since.
  • This dress, representative of the transition from 1920s to 1930s styles, is made of unlined panne velvet and is accompanied by a waist-length jacket of the same material.
  • Sid and Joey are proud of the family history the farms portray, from the stately Westleigh bank barn to the handmade gate hinges and latches made from iron by a 1930s farmhand.
  • The Maginot Line, the massive series of fortifications built by France in the 1930s to defend its borders with Germany and Italy, is perhaps the most maligned collection of fortifications ever built.
  • Beryllium was used as an agent to prolong the life of fluorescent light bulbs in the 1930s but was found to be a cause of acute and chronic berylliosis in the mid 1940s.
  • Inaugurated in the 1930s to raise money for Irish hospitals, the sweepstakes was based on the outcome of horse races.
  • One year, he said, floodwaters were waist-high all the way to Bangkok's 1930s-era Democracy Monument, more than a kilometer inland.
  • The resulting feud ravaged the Australian side of the 1930s and 1940s until Bradman finally purged O'Reilly's cabal.
  • Each decade since the 1930s the BBC has commissioned lifestyle research in order to find out how and when people watch TV.
  • Jean Brodie is the formidable and unconventional teacher in the prime of her life, working at a girls' school in the 1930s.
  • When we moved from the first house into a fab 1930s semi with a pointed roof. Times, Sunday Times
  • The foundations of the post-war boom in Britain were laid in those crises at the start of the 1930s.
  • In the 1930s, Meyer Lansky, leader of a Jewish crime organization known as the Syndicate, controlled more gambling operations in the western hemisphere than anyone, with major casinos in Miami, Saratoga Springs, New York, and Havana, Cuba. A Renegade History of the United States
  • It was constructed by the state in the 1930s and through the 1950s and '60s, hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand were deposited there.
  • During the 1930s he was blacklisted as a union activist and never got work.
  • This ‘boyish’ and youthful ideal reigned during the 1920s, succeeded by a sensual and voluptuous ideal in the 1930s.
  • By the 1930s, people were commonly referring to the tall goblet in crystal sets as an ‘iced tea’ glass.
  • As early as the 1930s Veblen expressed pride in the enormous strides the country had taken up to that time.
  • They were designed by the artist in the late 1920s and the early 1930s.
  • From the 1930s onward, he is one of jazz's most dazzling soloists.
  • The pedigree shorthorns have been prize-winners at the London and Welsh Dairy Shows and can be traced back to the Dowror herd which Mr David's grandfather established in the 1930s.
  • The monophonic sound of each mix gives the viewer a real sense of what it must have been like to have experienced these shorts for the first time in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • Up the road is a 1930s Atlanta soda fountain that has been retroactively desegregated.
  • Irons from the 1930s, for example, had a center of gravity high on the clubface and well toward the heel.
  • At the end of the 1930s, she entered the Moscow Music and Dance Institute and fortunately performed in the same play with G. Ulanova, the world-famous ballerina.
  • She went off to Oxford in the late 1930s in a serviceable tweed suit and thick lisle stockings.
  • The civil war lingered on well into the 1930s.
  • The exhibition, which opens in February, and brings together works by Mondrian and Nicholson originally shown in the same galleries, examines a little-known period of Mondrian's life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with Nicholson, his first and second wives Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other avant-garde British artists. Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works
  • Our radio and television broadcasts have been leaking into space since the 1930s, when the first powerful emitters were constructed.
  • In the 1930s and '40s, the rumba, which originated in Cuba, became popular in America and Europe.
  • This led to radar tracking of aircraft in the 1930s. Times, Sunday Times
  • Almost every dramatic or comedy film of the early 1930s was virtually scoreless, except for the music heard during the opening and closing credits.
  • It was taken to Sheffield in the 1930s and saw out its working days there by steaming out to farms and powering thresher machines right up to 1964.
  • Over several years he has acted Coriolanus, Kent in King Lear, and a ruthless, fascistic Richard III in a production set in a version of 1930s London.
  • The 1930s was a period of economic dislocation.
  • It's been known since the 1930s, with the discovery of bat echolocation, that animals can produce pitches too high for human hearing.
  • She began life as an actress in the 1930s.
  • The weakness of this over-reliance on exports was exposed by the Great Depression during the 1930s.
  • The Great Depression of this century will probably hit much harder that that of the 1930s since our country is in so much poorer financial shape.
  • Retrospective Diagnosis Using the first technique, researchers found dozens of possible AIDS cases from medical records dating back to the 1930s.
  • There were mass deportations in the 1930s, when thousands of people were forced to leave the country.
  • Through the 1920s and 1930s, images of Caroline and her sisters, first as bob-haired demigoddesses, later as soda-sipping bobby-soxers in saddle shoes, helped to define the succeeding eras of boom and bust.
  • In the country's first hung Parliament since the 1930s—Prime Minister Julia Gillard depends on a clutch of nonparty lawmakers and the Greens to keep her in office—Mr. Hockey's Liberal Party and its coalition partner, the rural-based Nationals, have huge sway over policy even in opposition. Australian Wealth-Fund Push Hits Roadblock
  • For example, Geiger - Mueller counters, the familiar clicking boxes seen in the movies, were first sold in the 1930s.
  • Egged on by fremescence around the globe, decisions aimed at reducing international trade will have, as they did in the 1930s, counterproductive results. Charlottesville Blogs
  • The consequence, as malariologist Lewis Hackett 1884-1962 wistfully wrote in the 1930s, is that malaria is so moulded and altered by local conditions that it becomes a thousand different diseases and epidemiological puzzles. Scourge of Humankind
  • The title enjoyed a surge in circulation during the Great Depression of the 1930s and during the second world war, while other magazines folded. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • In the 1930s the polo world adopted the shirt and within 20 years the term 'polo shirt' began to come to the fore. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The story inevitably starts with the economic slump of the early 1930s.
  • There are also a few hulking pebbledashed 1930s monsters, some as large as 7,000 sq ft. Times, Sunday Times
  • But his greatest legacy is his now largely forgotten work as an actor-manager inthe 1930s and 40s.
  • Joe Cronin, perhaps the best shortstop of the 1930s, and Lou Boudreau, perhaps the best of the next decade, were player-managers as starting shortstops.
  • It all began in the 1930s, when Modesta Fernández - wife of Darío Soteno - began making clay sculptures. Family Roots: The Soteno Trees Of Life
  • It's all guesswork this week, though, because we don't know who is able to dance like an angel skipping across the clouds, and who can only lurch around like a wonky 1930s robot.
  • The fascist bent that infiltrated Argentina in the 1930s was quite popular among conservative artists and intellectuals.

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