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  • noun the decade from 1840 to 1849

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Examples

  • The feminised, domesticated definition of Jewishness, which the Anglo-Jewish writer Grace Aguilar was to exploit so successfully during the 1840s, is here presented as a pragmatic and more enduring alternative to the romantic, militant and ultimately tragic political nationalism of Alroy. 15

    Valman - Criticism - Critical Contexts 2002

  • You may argue that a way of life which was possible in the 1840s is impossible in the 1940s; that in the near future we shall all of us have to move in a quite contrary direction.

    Education for a Classless Society 1969

  • You may argue that a way of life which was possible in the 1840s is impossible in the 1940s; that in the near future we shall all of us have to move in a quite contrary direction.

    Education for a Classless Society 1940

  • You may argue that a way of life which was possible in the 1840s is impossible in the 1940s; that in the near future we shall all of us have to move in a quite contrary direction.

    Education for a Classless Society 1940

  • The 1840s were a pivotal and exciting decade in American history.

    How the West Was Won Daniel Walker Howe 2010

  • Opponents of Immigration are “neo-Know Nothings” (Know-Nothings, the political movement of the 1850s whose concerns about the heavy influx of immigrants in the 1840s were alleviated when that flow spontaneously stopped, seem to be regarded by neocons as a diabolical species of Cossack.)

    Tony Snow on Immigration: How high? 2006

  • Opponents of Immigration are “neo-Know Nothings” (Know-Nothings, the political movement of the 1850s whose concerns about the heavy influx of immigrants in the 1840s were alleviated when that flow spontaneously stopped, seem to be regarded by neocons as a diabolical species of Cossack.)

    Mexico Meddles in Mass Murder 2006

  • Opponents of Immigration are “neo-Know Nothings” (Know-Nothings, the political movement of the 1850s whose concerns about the heavy influx of immigrants in the 1840s were alleviated when that flow spontaneously stopped, seem to be regarded by neocons as a diabolical species of Cossack.)

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Tony Snow on Immigration: How high? 2006

  • However, the 1840s is a particularly rich decade for examining antebellum student writing at the

    Writing in the Academy Erika Lindemann 2004

  • ‡ Mexico’s proximity to the United States has led to serious territorial disputes; the immediate cause of the Mexican War of the 1840s was the annexation of Texas by the United States.

    Mexico 2002

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