In the 'seventies I joined the Water Committee, at a time when further supplies of water for Liverpool had become a pressing necessity.
He was a power for good in Liverpool, and much of the uplifting and purifying of Liverpool in the 'seventies was due to his influence.
In the 'sixties and 'seventies travelling was difficult.
In the 'seventies there were severe contests, which arose not upon questions of personal fitness, but were prompted by trade rivalries.
To change all this demanded a great effort and a large expenditure of money, but in the 'seventies and 'eighties we had men in the Council capable of taking large views.
The phenomenal increase in the population of New Zealand in the mid-'seventies was due largely to the control of immigration passing from the provincial councils to the general government, and the vigorous policy inaugurated by it.
Owing to an actual increase of business, and to the growing complexity of domestic affairs, Parliament is over-burdened with work to a far greater extent to-day than it was in the seventies and eighties.
The introduction of the refrigerator railway car in the 'seventies of the 19th century, making possible the distant marketing of dressed meats, enormously increased the business.
What is certain is that at some time in the 'seventies three or four Italian poems passed into Chaucer's possession, and that he set to work busily to make use of them.
But in the great Indian famine of the seventies that ship, already old then, made some wonderful dashes across the Gulf of Bengal with cargoes of rice from Rangoon to Madras.
No immediate result was perceptible from the performance of the B flat Sextet led by Joachim at a Monday Popular concert of 1867, but from the beginning of the seventieswe find Brahms' name appearing with some regularity in London programmes.
This pleasant incident of the seventies recalls that of the forties, when the youthful Johannes consented to fill the offices of composer and conductor at Winsen on the occasion of Rector Koehler's birthday.
With the rapidly-increasing appreciation of Brahms' art observable during the second half of the seventies throughout the entire musical world, the condition of his private circumstances changed rapidly also.
Even in the seventieshe was just as vigorous as at the beginning, and though he was regarded as a jester during his lifetime he was honoured as a great painter after his death.
A number of the Western states, notably Illinois and Iowa, developed in the seventies commissions of "the strong type," with power to fix rates and to enforce their rulings.
The building of railroads in the Mississippi valley in the seventies lowered the value of eastern farms, ruined many English farmers, and depressed the condition of the peasantry in all western Europe.
A pretty definite public opinion regarding the nature of the problem has emerged from the nearly half-century of experience and discussion, since the first vigorous agitation of the subject in the seventies of the last century.
Massachusetts developed in the seventies a commission of "the advisory type" which investigated and made public the conditions, leaving to public opinion the correction of the evils.
In the seventies Frederick Akers was proprietor of the oldest and best known trade roasting establishment in New York.
The renaissance of interest that followed the Kiralfy successes in the sixties andseventies was killed by counterfeits.
That process was going on throughout the seventiesand the eighties, and was brought to a climax by the conversion of Mr. Gladstone in 1886.
The quorums of Apostles andSeventies were not called till 1835--over four years subsequent to these revelations.
If through some cause--which is not likely to arise--both these quorums should be destroyed then it would devolve on the Seventies to set in order the Church and they would become the presiding quorum.
The Seventies numbered about four hundred and ninety men.
Calling upon the Seventies to assist me, I soon mustered what help was necessary, and made brick enough to build me a large dwelling house.
After passing through the stage of such private instruction as white persons interested in the man far down felt disposed to give, an actual school was opened in the early seventieswith an enrolment of thirty pupils.
These schools followed as a result of employment of Negroes on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, terminating in the seventies at the Ohio River, where it gave rise to the city of Huntington, West Virginia, laid out in 1870.
During the crisis of the seventies of the last century similar observations were made in the United States, especially in New York and Massachusetts.
The highest numbers attained during the seventies were attained only in exceptional instances at the close of the nineties.
The period of prosperity at the beginning of the seventies made the danger appear less great at first, but it became all the more noticeable when the crisis set in.
European agriculture, and especially German agriculture, has entered upon a new phase of its development since the close of the seventies of the last century.
The Seventies are to be taken from the quorum of Elders, and are not to be High Priests.
The President then called upon the congregation to know if the recently appointed presidents of the Seventies should stand in their calling.
On Tuesday evenings the Seventiesoccupy the same room.
The Seventies are also members of the same Priesthood, [i.
The Seventiesare to constitute traveling quorums, to go into all the earth, whithersoever the Twelve Apostles shall call them.
Sidenote: The Seventies Sustained as Apostles and Special Witnesses.
Now the Lord has got His Twelve and His Seventy, and there will be other quorums of Seventies called, who will make the sacrifice, and those who have not made their sacrifices and their offerings now, will make them hereafter.
They had heard of Moses and seventy Elders of Israel, and of Jesus appointing 'other Seventies,' but had never heard of Twelve Apostles and of Seventies being called in this Church before.
Indeed, the anarchists in the late seventies and in the eighties lost many who had been formerly friendly to them.
On the whole, the sixties were spent in theorizing, in organizing, and in planning, but with the seventies the moment arrived "to unchain the hydra of revolution.
These are but a few instances of the activity of the anarchists at the end of the seventies and at the beginning of the eighties.
The struggle, therefore, between the syndicalists and the socialists is, as we see, the same clash over methods that occurred in the seventies and eighties between the anarchists and the socialists.
Their struggle for an organized existence was brief, and at the end of the seventies it was entirely over.
That is certainly true of England, and in our own country the great strikes of the seventies were the birth-signs of trade unionism.
Often, he is glad to say, the same private friends who helped him in the seventieshave been able to renew that help in the nineties.
Compare with the modest totals just mentioned the competition and the sums of money, both without precedent, expended in Christie's salerooms during the seventies and eighties of the century.
In the earlyseventies a Birmingham manufacturer, the former partner of Mr Chamberlain gave for it L2,300.
Late in the seventies of our century the social craze of what was called 'rinkomania' set in.
The independent parties of the middle seventies were distinctly spontaneous uprisings of the people and especially of the farmers, rather than movements instigated by politicians for personal ends or by professional reformers.
In Illinois this movement began even before the Grange appeared in the State, and its growth during the early seventies paralleled that of the secret order.
He continued to manufacture sewing machines until the early seventies when he converted to the manufacturing of street lamps.
Bartram received additional patents in the early seventies and also manufactured lockstitch machines.
In the early seventies "Billy" was one of the best cowboys ranging over the western cattle country.
It was my pleasure to meet often during the early seventies the man who is now famous in the old world and the new world, Buffalo Bill (William F.
In the seventies nought could darken or destroy it, Locked in me, Though as delicate as lamp-worm's lucency; Neither mist nor murk could weaken or alloy it In the seventies!
In the seventies those who met me did not know Of the vision That immuned me from the chillings of mis-prision And the damps that choked my goings to and fro In the seventies; yea, those nodders did not know Of the vision.
In the seventies I was bearing in my breast, Penned tight, Certain starry thoughts that threw a magic light On the worktimes and the soundless hours of rest In the seventies; aye, I bore them in my breast Penned tight.
In the mid-seventies this steamer was supplanted by the staunch steam car-ferry, William Armstrong, whose whistle was reputed to be the loudest and the most awful thing ever heard on inland waters anywhere.
The road at the end of the seventies had a fleet of about twenty locomotives.
On the contrary, it was already apparent in the seventies that the amount which the companies would be called upon to repay was mounting up much more rapidly than the credits designed to meet it.
Moreover, there is good independent evidence to the same effect in the available data concerning the “seasonal” or “special” contract system which became notorious in California in the late seventies and early eighties.
Not only was the economic development of southern California slight and the probable earnings of the Southern Pacific for some years small, but the state as a whole was not in the seventies an attractive field for investment.
Nor is anyone likely to read the letters of Mr. Huntington to Mr. Colton in the late seventies without becoming convinced that the possibility of purchasing votes was constantly before Huntington’s mind.
Such a scheme of small holdings, if backed by sufficient capital, worked by experts, and favourably situated for a market, might even in theseventies have succeeded.
The fashionable scientific materialism of the seventies he utterly abhorred: he behaved to it as St. George to the Dragon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seventies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
