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  • noun The decade from 1890 to 1899.

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  • noun the decade from 1890 to 1899

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Examples

  • Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits.

    Moloka'i: Summary and book reviews of Moloka'i by Alan Brennert. 2003

  • BRIAN LAMB: Professor Brands, why did you call the 1890s "The Reckless Decade?"

    The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s 1996

  • Unobtrusively embedded in Sappho's statement that her love for Atthis "Bore sense and soul and mind at once away" is the Unitrinian philosophy of mind-body-spirit harmonization that Carman evolved in the late 1890s from the French philosopher of acting and dance François Delsarte, who also influenced, among many others, Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis.

    unknown title 2009

  • After having some success with fiction, Barrie began writing plays in 1890s.

    Five People Born on Mother’s Day in 2010 | myFiveBest 2010

  • The “New Woman” of the 1890s was the natural reaction to the 1870s and 1880s, when not only were white-collar jobs increasingly available to them, but universities began to open their classes – or, in the case of Oxford and Cambridge – opened colleges for the education of women.

    Introduction: Edwardian Women’s Fashions | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • No royalties to pay on the Constance Garnett-translated Tolstoy and Dostoyevesky titles that appeared in 1890s.

    If They Could Turn Back Time Roger Sutton 2007

  • The McKinley coalition of the 1890s was a response to our capital-ravenous, industrializing economy's need for investment from abroad.

    Where Does the GOP Clark S. Judge 2008

  • While it was desolate and unruly, though, it also had strategic value, and, while it was believed to be thinly settled, it was home to the "Cossa" people, whose leaders by the 1890s were appealing to the Portuguese for an alliance that would strengthen them against Ngungunyana.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • The 1890s, that is; the Red Onion of the Oklahoma Territory days was a notorious “disorderly house,” if you will, that was a primary target for the administration of Mayor Charles G.

    dustbury.com » And then along came Jones 2006

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald called the 1890s the cut-glass decade, because every home that aspired to gentility plopped a cut-glass bowl on its sideboard.

    "How We Got Here: The 1970s--The Decade That Brought You Modern Life" 2000

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