Word: 1830s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world renowned pianist-author, who in this first of a series of six lectures discussed the "romantic" approach to music that developed during the 1830s, said 19th-century composers had a "fuller conception" of the sounds they wrote than earlier composers...
North Cambridge, though it didn't grow as fast as the neighborhoods to the east, got its start in the 1830s when a cattle market settled there, soon spawning a stockyard, inns, taverns, and even a racetrack. Water shortages prevented much native industry from springing up, except for brickmaking concerns, which benefited from the clay in the soil...
...series centers on Darwin's service as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, which spent five years in the early 1830s charting and surveying the waters off the coasts of South America. It was the chief event of his life. Though he had little formal scientific training, the young man, played with athletic gusto by Malcolm Stoddard, had an "enlarged curiosity," as his uncle phrased it. Darwin's native skepticism turned the voyage into a fresh, vigorous inquiry into the nature of things, and the Beagle carried not only him but mankind into a new era of understanding...