The day came when the hotels farther downtown yielded the palm to the Metropolitan, opened in the middlefifties at Broadway and Prince Street.
Were it possible for us to be transported back to the London of the fifties the sight of a Thackeray, a Dickens, a Tennyson, or a Browning would not have been necessary to stir our pulses.
At the beginning of the 'fifties he returned to theological subjects, but failed to exercise any influence.
In the beginning of the fifties he was to be found every evening at a brasserie much frequented by artists and students in the Rue Hautefeuille in the Quartier Latin, in the society of young authors of the school of Balzac.
In thefifties all the technical ability which was to be gained from the study of the old Dutch masters and from constant commerce with the modern French reached its highest point in Knaus.
It was only from the middle of the fifties that he began to sell at the rate of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred francs a picture.
Germany could not forget Knaus, if it were only for the fact that in the fiftieshe sided with those who first spread the unusual opinion that painting was incomprehensible without sound ability in the matter of colour.
When in the fiftieshe stayed a summer in pleasant Loschwitz, he wrote in his diary: "O God, how magnificent is the wide country round, from my little place upon the hill!
And he said to his disciples: Make them sit down byfifties in a company.
Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two first captains of fifty men, and the fiftiesthat were with them: but now I beseech thee to spare my life.
As the antebellum period of the fifties came on these questions loomed larger in the public view.
The Society of Canada continued active right through the fifties and early sixties, not resting until the aim for which it had been founded had been accomplished.
The Alpha and Omega of that gorgeous pageant of the fiftiesvanished like a mirage!
There was a vigorous expulsion of gamblers in the early fifties and an incident occurred which quite possibly supplied the inspiration for Bret Harte's "Outcasts of Poker Flat.
Auburn marks the western verge of the mineral zone, but in the fifties there were, rich placer diggings in the immediate vicinity.
It must also be remembered that in the fifties his reputation as an author had not been established.
This should be remembered when reading the vivid accounts which his mother has so kindly given me permission to use: "We got through the forties with splendid speed and were just over the fifties when one of those tremendous gales got us.
But in our present state we began to look upon minus fifties as a luxury which we did not often get.
The gale increased to storm force (force 11 out of 12) and such a sea got up as only the Southern Fifties can produce.
It was by the end of the 'fifties that the regular and tight spikiness began finally to disappear and give place to far-flung curves.
Leave this amount in hundreds and fifties in the rubbish can at the corner of 50th Street and Broadway at 10 A.
Even in the fifties and the sixties, the American public had its railroad problem, but it was quite different in character from the one with which we have since grown so familiar.
The accidents which had been almost the prevailing rule in the fiftiesand sixties were greatly reduced by the Westinghouse air-brake, invented in 1868, and the block signaling system, introduced somewhat later.
Only in the early 'fifties was the ancient stone structure, which had stood for five centuries and which figures prominently in old views of Glasgow from the Clyde, replaced by the present Victoria Bridge.
In the early Fifties the proportion of really educated men to the whole population was greater in California than in any other State, and probably this was true even of the period when the "Overland" was founded.
It is sometimes said that California in the Fifties represented the American character in its most extreme form,--the quintessence, as it were, of energy and democracy.
This new nationalism was unlike the expansionist movement of the fifties in that it laid no particular stress upon the incorporation of the neighboring republics by a process of federation.
Attraction, not compulsion, was the method to be used, and none of the paeans of American prophets in the editorials or the fervid orations of the fifties proposed an additional battleship or regiment.
The experiences of the later fifties had caused many to look upon expansion as a Southern heresy.
We find the phrase "alternation of generations" employed within two years of the discoveries of Suminski, whilst by the early fifties the general genetic relations of the vascular series were realized in quite a new light.
Early in the fifties Williamson made some rough sections of a Calamite which came into his hands, and this was the beginning of his most characteristic line of work.
And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
Articles of this kind--and he had them by fifties in his head--formed the second line of what has been called his journalism.
Steve came up with a thick sheaf of bills, the top ones, at least, all fifties and tossed them to Larry’s desk.
Welch, an arrival of the early fiftieswho died in 1869; Thomas H.
Another arrival of the late fifties was Manuel Ravenna, an Italian.
Major Walter Harris Harvey, a native of Georgia once a cadet at West Point, but dismissed for his pranks (who about the middle of the fifties married Eleanor, eldest full sister of John G.
It was fortunate indeed that the adobe construction of the fiftiesrendered houses practically fireproof since, in the absence of a water-system, a bucket-brigade was all there was to fight a fire with, and this rendered but poor service.
Lazard obtained the first protection late in the fifties and paid a premium of four per cent.
Welch, a South Carolinian dentist who came here in the early fiftiesand died in August, 1869.
Notwithstanding the opening of other hotels, the Bella Union continued throughout the fifties to be the representative headquarters of its kind in Los Angeles and for a wide area around.
So infrequently did we receive intelligence from the remoter parts of the world throughout the fifties that sometimes a report, especially if apparently authentic, when finally it reached here, created real excitement.
Illustration: Los Angeles in the Late Fifties From a contemporary sketch] [Illustration: Myer J.
There was such a phase in the fifties of the nineteenth century, when Spiritualism swept over the world.
In the earlyfifties he began to exhibit hands which the Spiritualists present were sure were not his hands.
Andersson, who travelled in Western South Africa in the early 'fifties of the last century, was also a mighty hunter.
The position of late years has been so different from the developments of the fifties and from the dominating ideas and ideals of the Manchester School of thought that some explanation is necessary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fifties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
