Word: 1820s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to blood- sport bureaucratese; "utilize,"or "harvest," is what you do when you get something fuzzy and four-footed in your sights. As in most states, New Hampshire's fish and game policies often seem to be caught in a time warp, perhaps in the decade of the 1820s, when subsistence hunting was an important food source for most families. Bears, these days, behave like large raccoons. They are smart, cute, hungry corn thieves and garbage raiders, happy in the suburbs and virtually harmless. Last year the state paid less than $7,000 to corn farmers because of bear...
...repayment negotiations are being closely watched by officials in New Hampshire, which owns $10,000 in Russian bonds dating back to the 1820s. With interest they could be worth $300,000 today...
Early in the 19th century came the great flood of Irish (2 million between 1815 and 1860) and Germans (1.5 million), some driven westward by political persecution, more by hunger and hardship. Philip Hone, mayor of New York in the 1820s, regarded both the Irish and the Germans as "filthy, intemperate, unused to the comforts of life and regardless of its proprieties." "Nativists" in Philadelphia raided Irish Catholic churches and burned Irish homes...
...called Dallas a frontier. He talked about the 1820s, when his people first came to Texas. Land was grabbed up at 10? an acre. Now the new entrepreneurs occupy office buildings instead of ranges. But there is more than that to Dallas. People are taken at face value here, he said, "as long as they pull their own oar." Clements pulled his own oar. He built up an oil-drilling business called Sedco. The Sedco building is not a shiny tower but a set of refurbished woody offices housed in the shell of the first brick school in Dallas...
...made. He did not so much idealize stability as worship it, and as a result his entire view of rural England presents Arcadia in a new guise. One could never imagine, looking at his paintings of Dedham Vale and the River Stour, that the placid shires of the 1820s and '30s looked very different to the writer and reformer William Cobbett, that they were full of rick burners, machine breakers, hanging judges and posses of brutal yeomanry...