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  • So you see, Flynn, when you ask me if I really like rap, that just tells me that you missed the point of this whole long experiment we call twentieth-century popular music.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • So you see, Flynn, when you ask me if I really like rap, that just tells me that you missed the point of this whole long experiment we call twentieth-century popular music.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • So you see, Flynn, when you ask me if I really like rap, that just tells me that you missed the point of this whole long experiment we call twentieth-century popular music.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • These visionaries were on the track of what was to become one of the great success stories of twentieth-century consumption-driven economics.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Rather than evangelical faith and fervor, the dominant explanation among sociologists of religion today, most clearly articulated by Michael Hout and his colleagues, emphasizes purely demographic factors.34 Simply put, for most of the twentieth-century evangelical parents had more children than other parents.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • But they may also point us to an explanation for the lack of a widespread or sustained shorter-hours movement in the twentieth-century United States, as well as for the fact that by the end of the century, American employees worked on average from one hundred to three hundred hours more per year than did workers in western Europe.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • These visionaries were on the track of what was to become one of the great success stories of twentieth-century consumption-driven economics.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Those at the bottom of the income distribution experienced a slow decrease in their share of the national pie, those in the middle barely kept up, and those at the top especially those at the very top experienced breathtaking increases.27 So stark was the change after 1970 that economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz entitled their summary of the twentieth-century history of American wage inequality “A Tale of Two Half-Centuries.”

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Until the 1940s, Catholics in Italian Harlem annually staged a procession of the feast of St. Benedict the Moor: the son of black slaves brought from Ethiopia to Sicily whose life in the sixteenth century was so pure that he was known in the church—and in twentieth-century Italian Harlem—as “the Holy Negro.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Lora Little: Early twentieth-century anti-vaccine activist

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

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