Word: nineteenths
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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English--Nine courses: elementary composition; advanced composition; second advanced composition; argumentative composition; college admission requirements in English; Anglo-Saxon; Shakespeare; English literature of the eighteenth century; English literature of the nineteenth century...
Towards the end of the Middle Ages, work began to be paid for in money, and this work was paid better than in the fourteenth or even in the nineteenth centuries. Laborers were paid better than servants, but with the advent of the present social system and the growth of luxury, the conditions became reversed...
...nineteenth century artificial meadows were made, ownership became precise, and hunting restrictions were enforced. The Revolution did away with collective ownership, without which it would have been impossible to supply the wants of the population. Progressive civilization is a conquest of the present, which has done away with individual ownership...
Munsey--"The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Singers," by W. J. Henderson...
...Avenel asserted that economic evolutions are independent of social changes, and have no points in common with them. The nineteenth century, in which social equality has attained to a greater extent than ever before, has witnessed the birth of great inequality in fortunes. Upon the fortunes of the laboring classes, the progress of a country has really no affect, as is seen in certain periods of French history, especially in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries...