Word: 1880s
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Baseball cards were first sold in cigarette packs in the 1880s and with bubble gum beginning in 1933. They began drawing more fans in 1981, when Fleer and Donruss started issuing cards to challenge Topps Chewing Gum Inc., of Brooklyn, the biggest manufacturer. Card production among the companies has zoomed like a pop fly, from an estimated 500 million a year in the late 1970s to 1.5 billion this year...
...that Polynesian art made virtually no impact on his painting; all its primitive elements-the flatness, the sinuous friezelike poses, the outlining-were either there already or deduced from photographs of Javanese, Cambodian and other Oriental material that he took with him. (One should not forget that in the 1880s, Frenchmen were still talking about Japanese art as art pri-mitif.) When he did quote Tahitian art, Gauguin played fast and loose with it, basing (in There Is the Marae, 1892) a Tahitian fence on the design of a tiny Marquesan earplug. In his Tahiti, primitivism was cousin to Baudelaire...
Promoters planted the first palm tree here in the 1880s. At the same time, real estate agents were known to pin oranges on Joshua trees, claiming this had been a terrain given over to orange groves since beyond memory. At the beginning of this year, the median sales price for an existing house in greater Los Angeles was $114,200-in the nation, it was $71,800. But who can find a "median" home? The other day, on a quiet street in Santa Monica, a FOR SALE sign went up in front of a three-bedroom, one-bath, fake stucco...
...years Despite her poor health, she participated in social life, joined a sewing circle and made friends. Although her upbringing did not incline her to participated in any of the more radical agitation for women's rights, such as the founding of the Harvard Annex--later Radcliffe in the 1880s, she taught history to other women through a correspondence school...
...itself, which includes four schools, an institute of science and a museum. The complex was founded by Detroit Newspaper Magnate George Gough Booth and his wife Ellen Scripps Booth, both philanthropists and aesthetes under the spell of the arts and crafts movement that was launched in England in the 1880s, inspired by the work of the designer-poet William Morris. They enlisted a kindred spirit-Eliel Saarinen, then Finland's leading architect-to serve as Cranbrook's designer, president and guiding force. Saarinen's stately, romantic brick buildings, with their web of walkways, courts, terraces, stairs...