Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Isabel Allende's Eliza Sommers runs circles around everyone else in Daughter of Fortune. Allende, raised in Chile and currently residing in California, is probably the most widely read Latin American woman novelist ever published. She transfers a variation of this distinction to Eliza, who breaks every rule of 19th century Valparaiso society to seek her callow lover in gold-crazed California...
...criticized many groups--including the White House Project, which aims to elect a female president by 2008--that Kaminer said justify their plans to elect women politicians by stressing 19th-century feminine stereotypes of female gentleness as well as their ability to resolve conflicts and cooperate...
...With 17 goals and nine assists for 43 points this season, Guarino is 19th in the nation in points per game and has lead her team to its best performance in over a decade...
...will make us all good looking. It is also a perfectly understandable question, given that half a million Americans will die this year of a disorder that is often discussed in terms that make it seem less like a disease than an implacable enemy. What tuberculosis was to the 19th century, cancer is to the 20th: an insidious, malevolent force that frightens people beyond all reason--far more than, say, diabetes or high blood pressure...
Public disenchantment with homeopathy, for example, will grow when consumers of homeopathic potions finally wise up to the fact that in many cases they are paying big bucks for a highly diluted mixture that is essentially pure water, and that homeopathy is based on primitive and false 19th century beliefs...