Poughkeepsie has been known on the Hudson River for nearly a half century yet it is now but little grown there and has not been widely disseminated elsewhere.
For a half century after, there were records in the southern agricultural literature of the attempts of stragglers or descendants of this colony to grow European grapes in the South.
Interview an elderly friend for the purpose of discovering how many commodities now produced outside the home were made within the family circle a half century ago.
Interview an old resident with regard to the relative abundance of forests, cheap land, and wild game in your locality a half century ago.
Interview an elderly friend or relative, with the purpose of securing a definite idea of the condition of the working classes a half century ago.
I unfortunately wore a 'plug' hat which was not the style in Iowa a half century ago.
There was a greater amount of entertaining a half century or more ago here than there is now.
But whether or not Chancellor Livingston's Democracy came from jealousy of Hamilton in 1790, it is at least certain that he and his family connections rendered political services of the first importance during a half century.
Adequate to the demands of the hour, Robert Ward Shepherd occupied a central place on the stage of business activity at Montreal for more than a half century.
The story of his life is best told by the history of the hostelry, St. Lawrence Hall, that his name had made famous and over which he had charge for upwards of a half century.
For a half century Mr. Scanlan was connected with the growth of the import and export trade of this country.
Would he have established such a precedent when Israel had hardly passed the threshhold of Canaan, and was then striking the first blow of a half century war?
Would he have established such a precedent when Israel had hardly passed the threshold of Canaan, and was then striking the first blow of a half century war?
Mr. Matthews had crossed the boundary of a half century of his life when hostilities between the North and the South began.
That institution stands, as it has stood for a half century or more, not alone as a relief of one of the most unfortunate classes of humanity, but as a monument to Major Miles W.
Removing to Alabama by way of Kentucky when he was twenty-four, he began at once a career of usefulness which extended practically through a half century, a period which embraced all the great revolutions through which the state has passed.
Here for a half century he devoted himself to the introduction and distribution of fruit and out-of-door ornamental plants.
For a half century, fruit-growers have studied with pleasure and profit the exhibits of pears made by Ellwanger and Barry at the State and National exhibitions of note.
Parkman, Half Century of Conflict and Montcalm and Wolfe.
If France had learned this lesson of colonization, there would never have been the loss of this country to the English a half century later.
The field belonged to the author of "Evangeline" even more completely then a half century earlier it had belonged to the author of "Marmion," on the other side of the sea.
In 1890 the English poetry-reading world was chiefly conscious of the passing of its leading singers for the last half century.
Half Century to Pay Debts At the opening of the final week of July, 1914, the whole world - with the exception of Mexico, in which the smouldering embers of the revolution still burned - was in a state of profound peace.
The chief ornament of Hull is the Wilberforce Monument, a pillar of sandstone seventy-two feet high, erected about a half century ago, and surmounted by a statue of the celebrated philanthropist.
Escaping pursuit, they settled in Llangollen in 1778 at the quaint little house called Plas Newydd, and lived there together for a half century.
The great storm of 1703 uprooted four thousand fine trees, and then again there was partial neglect, and it was not until within a half century that a serious effort was made to fully restore the timber.
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