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  • adjective Usually used before century to indicate the middle part of the 20th Century, which could refer to events in the 1940s, the 1950s or the 1960s. However, in architecture, preservation, and real estate, it is commonly being used to refer to the period after World War II to the mid-1970s.

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  • Roosevelt won four elections, all by landslides, and the Democratic Party, whose platform was rebuilt on New Deal ideas, controlled the federal government for most of the mid-twentieth century.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • (I have always liked that he also tried the reverse with Nothing Like the Sun (1964), which is not pure Elizabethan pastiche, but is certainly not written as though Shakespeare spoke in the mid-twentieth century.)

    "And the bone shall never heal. I care not if you kneel." greygirlbeast 2010

  • Elected officials and wanna-be-elected presidential candidates lament the dependence on imported oil, the price of gasoline and the alleged costs of subsidizing the clean tech industries, but the solutions they propose remain mid-twentieth century: more oil drilling, maintaining subsidies and other benefits for oil and gas producers, pipelines across irreplaceable farmland and aquifers, and rolling back environmental regulations that protect health and safety to reduce costs.

    Sarah A. W. Fitts: Freedom Is an Electric Car Sarah A. W. Fitts 2011

  • Elected officials and wanna-be-elected presidential candidates lament the dependence on imported oil, the price of gasoline and the alleged costs of subsidizing the clean tech industries, but the solutions they propose remain mid-twentieth century: more oil drilling, maintaining subsidies and other benefits for oil and gas producers, pipelines across irreplaceable farmland and aquifers, and rolling back environmental regulations that protect health and safety to reduce costs.

    Sarah A. W. Fitts: Freedom Is an Electric Car Sarah A. W. Fitts 2011

  • Elected officials and wanna-be-elected presidential candidates lament the dependence on imported oil, the price of gasoline and the alleged costs of subsidizing the clean tech industries, but the solutions they propose remain mid-twentieth century: more oil drilling, maintaining subsidies and other benefits for oil and gas producers, pipelines across irreplaceable farmland and aquifers, and rolling back environmental regulations that protect health and safety to reduce costs.

    Sarah A. W. Fitts: Freedom Is an Electric Car Sarah A. W. Fitts 2011

  • Filled with unforgettable characters, settings, and action, The Irresistible Henry House portrays the cultural tumult of the mid-twentieth century even as it explores the inner tumult of a young man trying to transcend a damaged childhood.

    The best recent books: Recommended Recent Hardcovers 2010

  • It was certainly self-evident in the mid-twentieth century, when the notion of interference reigned supreme.

    May « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Elected officials and wanna-be-elected presidential candidates lament the dependence on imported oil, the price of gasoline and the alleged costs of subsidizing the clean tech industries, but the solutions they propose remain mid-twentieth century: more oil drilling, maintaining subsidies and other benefits for oil and gas producers, pipelines across irreplaceable farmland and aquifers, and rolling back environmental regulations that protect health and safety to reduce costs.

    Sarah A. W. Fitts: Freedom Is an Electric Car Sarah A. W. Fitts 2011

  • It was certainly self-evident in the mid-twentieth century, when the notion of interference reigned supreme.

    E is for Error « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Elected officials and wanna-be-elected presidential candidates lament the dependence on imported oil, the price of gasoline and the alleged costs of subsidizing the clean tech industries, but the solutions they propose remain mid-twentieth century: more oil drilling, maintaining subsidies and other benefits for oil and gas producers, pipelines across irreplaceable farmland and aquifers, and rolling back environmental regulations that protect health and safety to reduce costs.

    Sarah A. W. Fitts: Freedom Is an Electric Car Sarah A. W. Fitts 2011

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