mid-nineteenth

• “In the mid-nineteenth century these word parts were assembled in Paris into bicycle.xiii Finally, in 1868, the word entered English, initially with the spelling “bysicle.””

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “In the mid-nineteenth century, the British fondness for shampooing crossed the English Channel to become the anglicized French phrase le shampooing, literally “the shampooing,” pronounced with a light n sound at the end of the word: le shahmpooahn.”

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “In the mid-nineteenth century, American courts began to devise their own rules for pleadings, but again they required great specificity in alleging facts to support the claims presented.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

• “The growing numbers of prostitutes in the mid-nineteenth century greatly supported this market, then kept it alive when moral reformers threatened to kill it.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “In Gallery 739 of the American Wing sits a striking mid-nineteenth century tête-à-tête a chair for two that allows sitters to face one another -- the design is attributed to John Belter that might have provided a comfortable platform from which two worried Americans might have pondered the uncomfortable and escalating domestic crisis that eventually resulted in disunion and war.”

  The Huffington Post: Tanya M. Acker: Ditch the Xanax: Why the Metropolitan Museum Is a Better Cure for American Grumpiness

• “… From the mid-nineteenth century through the first three-quarters of this century … Britain enjoyed extraordinarily low crime and extraordinary freedom.”

  Sonnex and Farmer – only a matter of time. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “We chose division in the mid-nineteenth century, and Civil War was the result.”

  The Huffington Post: Terry Newell: Remember, It's "We" the People

• “Anti-Catholicism reached a peak in the mid-nineteenth century when Protestant leaders became alarmed by the heavy influx of Catholic immigrants.”

  The Huffington Post: Geoffrey R. Stone: Marriage Equality and the Catholic Bishops

• “Legislative walkouts to deny a quorum date to at least the mid-nineteenth century.”

  The Wall Street Journal: GOP Raises Fines in Indiana Battle

• “The Season Abroad Up to the mid-nineteenth century the great leisure center ...”

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