Word: nineteenth
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...Harvard, Hobbs concentrated in American History, writing his honor's thesis on the nineteenth century political cartoonist Thomas Nast. But, he says, his favorite activity while at Harvard was hanging out in the Winthrop House dining hall...
occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine will try to end its drought against the undefeated Crimson softball squad this Sunday, when the two teams continue a series that began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century...
...primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them." The irony, of course, is that now we would say even the most "civilized" mid-nineteenth-century American lived a life far more primitive than any imaginable today. No Coca-Cola (nor plastic bottle in which to hold it); no Gore-Tex jacket (nor zipper with which close it); no Chevy Blazer (nor asphalt on which to drive it). Really, how can you talk about gross necessaries when...
...nineteenth century, brave American pioneers traversed overland trails and forded rushing rivers to establish new settlements for the burgeoning nation...
...same thing was said about studying the United States at the end of the nineteenth century," he said. "At that time there were people at Harvard who said we shouldn't study American literature. Given what's happening everywhere else, [ethnic studies] isn't a passing thing...