Word: 1850s
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...jean, I don’t think comfort was at the front of his mind. Being a history concentrator, I’m going to bring some historical perspective into this. When Straus conceived of his good old Levi’s during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, his reasons were purely practical: to provide sturdy protection for the legs of gold miners. These days, the closest contact with gold I have is the sprinkling of edible gold leaf on my chocolate molten cake from Finale. So I wonder: with pencil, not dirt pick, in hand, are jeans...
...lives of women like Dunne are the subject of an exhibition, "Women Transported: Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories," whose national tour opens Aug. 2 at the Parramatta Heritage Centre. Between 1804 and the early 1850s, some 10,000 British women served in one of the 12 female work houses - known as factories - in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Theirs is a tale of dislocation and suffering of which few Australians have more than the sketchiest knowledge, yet it's hardly stretching things to call these women the mothers of a nation, or to suggest...
...address each other as “Valentine” and send each other little gifts as tokens of their affection. Since that era, the tradition of mailing cards to loved ones gradually spread to Britain and eventually to the United States in the 1840s. By the late 1850s, Americans were buying 3 million pre-made Valentine cards a year. According to the Society of American Florists, 214 million roses are expected to be sold today, But, according to Jane M. Fredell ’09, co-president of TLR, the most romantic days of the United States...
Instant-runoff voting—which has its origins in a system developed in the 1850s by Thomas Hare of England and Carl Andrae of Denmark—is advantageous because voters are free to choose more marginal candidates who may not have the strongest chance at winning. Under a standard plurality voting system, voters are often pressured to choose mainstream candidates for fear that their votes would be wasted on less viable candidates...
...free institutions then. Of course, we have the example of Lincoln to guide us. And Ferguson's wry and sardonic account of the ways we remember him is heartening and even inspiring, almost despite itself or despite ourselves. But the failures of leadership of the 1840s and 1850s should also chasten us. Nations don't always rise to the occasion. And the next generation can pay a great price when the preceding one shirks its responsibilities...