Word: nineteenth
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...your way to the MFA, take an interesting detour at the world headquarters of the First Church of Christ Scientist (T: Symphony, Green Line). The nineteenth century Mother Church is to the Christian Scientists what St. Peter's in Rome is to Catholics...
Critics accused the government of trying to influence scholars to support its view that Turkey is not responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians during the late nineteenth century in the wake of the Ottoman empire's disintegration...
Although in the late nineteenth century black students were few in numbers, those that did attend the College went on to become intellectual and historical figures. W.E.B. Dubois 1890, a philosophy student, formed close relationships with his professors, Harvard luminaries such as William James and George Santayana...
...shadow of insult fell," said Du Bois in his essay, "A Negro Student At Harvard At The End of The Nineteenth Century," of being mistaken for a servant. Turned away from local barbershops, refused lodging by families who habitually hosted white students and excluded from various activities such as the Glee Club, Du Bois focussed on academic achievement while coping with the many facets of on campus racism...
...lyrics to "I've Got a Little List" would make modern audiences' ears burn). Contemporary productions of the play often transfer the setting to England or to America; Zayas's interpretation retains a modern-day version of Western perceptions of Japan, while steering clear of the treacherous waters of nineteenth-century Orientalism...