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Example sentences for "thirties"

Lexicographically close words:
thirteen; thirteene; thirteenpence; thirteenth; thirtie; thirtieth; thirtith; thirty; thirtysix; this
  1. From the commencement of the ‘thirties Melanchthon struck out his own course and became ever more convinced, that the doctrine of the Real Presence was not vouched for by the Bible.

  2. The south slopes that were originally prairie, were evidently only sparsely clothed with trees up until the thirties when livestock were fenced out.

  3. In the mid-thirties control of the area passed to the University of Kansas.

  4. In "Horse Woods" one of the hillside areas that was open to livestock until 1949, this oak was almost absent, but it was abundant in adjoining parts of the woods that were fenced in the thirties to exclude livestock.

  5. However, many of the trees are six inches or less DBH and a large proportion of these have originated as stump sprouts from trees cut in the early thirties or before.

  6. In the thirties when most of the woodland area was fenced off and protected from grazing, three wooded hillside areas of a few acres each, were maintained as connecting strips between the pastures of the hilltops and those of the bottomlands.

  7. Leland casts an informing eye over the place during the marvellous journey which he undertook, and crystallized in his Itinerary, reaching Teignmouth sometime during the thirties of the sixteenth century.

  8. The enormous improvement which has taken place since the thirties and the forties of the last century is not due to the efforts of a single man.

  9. In Washington, the story is told of a director of the Patent Office who in the early thirties of the last century suggested that the Patent Office be abolished, because "everything that possibly could be invented had been invented.

  10. Early in the 'thirties there had been some reduction in certain departments of taxation.

  11. During the thirties and forties the southern societies ceased to make reports.

  12. For twenty years more the company, managed in the early thirties by James Oglethorpe, kept up the unequal contest until 1751 when it was dissolved.

  13. The advance of cotton prices throughout most of the thirties suspended the discussion, and the régime went on virtually unchanged.

  14. The greatest activities in this line, however, were doubtless those of the Murrell gang of desperadoes operating throughout the southwest in the early thirties with a shrewd scheme for victimizing both whites and blacks.

  15. Philips, whom a dearth of patients drove early from the practice of medicine, established in the 'thirties a plantation which he named Log Hall, in Hinds County, Mississippi.

  16. It was not until the middle thirties that the broadest expanse of the bottoms, the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, began to receive its great influx.

  17. This variety had been widely grown for domestic use as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it was left largely in neglect until when in the thirties it was hit upon for negro crops.

  18. On the other hand, two old couples and one in their thirties had had no children, while eight young pairs had from one to four each.

  19. To these chance observations it may be added that many newspaper items and canal and railroad company reports from the 'thirties to the 'fifties record that the construction gangs were largely of Irish and Germans.

  20. When Judge Story was professor at Harvard in the thirties of the last century, he put the law into his pupils' heads in eighteen months.

  21. They made Troy Female Seminary in the twenties and Mount Holyoke in the thirties in the image of the aspirations, as well as in the image of the needs, of the women of the times.

  22. But the thirties are a specially dangerous time for women.

  23. They laugh; but the twinkling irony, mocking at itself and everything else, of the thirties and forties, they have not yet learnt.

  24. But in the thirties they have visions of the future which are deeply disturbing; and in the forties they face the tragedy of a lonely old age.

  25. From the time of this awakening in the thirties and forties, two lines of educational activity for the advancement of woman's education steadily developed.

  26. The =V=-shaped Bertha setting to neck and shoulders began to establish itself, and became a great feature through the thirties and forties; the first signs of it appear about 1814.

  27. The attraction to the thirties was the happy effects gained by the bow and flower looping on the flounces, and these ripened in fancy and variety through the forties.

  28. Strangely enough none of the tribes seems to have charged the gross injustice of the thirties exclusively to the account of the South.

  29. Not all of the southern Indians had emigrated in the thirties and forties.

  30. Fifteen-Twenties nor in the Twenty-Five-Thirties proposed by the Secretary.

  31. Here is a little story I had from her own lips, and which shows the Scotch of the early thirties in quite a new light.

  32. Just at this time, in the thirties of the nineteenth century, seems to have been the crucial point.

  33. In these years of the thirties and forties, Western democracy took on its distinctive form.

  34. It was this combined New York-New England stream that in the thirties poured in large volume into the zone north of the settlements which have been described.

  35. He called upon his merry men, By thirties and by three: 'Put aff the warst, put on the best, And come along with me.

  36. O she has called in her merry young men, By thirties and by threes; Earl Richard should hae been the foremost man, But the hindmost man was he.

  37. In the thirties of the last century [the later Sir] Alexander Burnes visited and admirably described the garden and the tomb.

  38. But the older men, the Territorials as they are called, in the late thirties and early forties, have settled down in life.

  39. No troops are more military than the first line Germans; but in the snap and spirit of his salute the French Territorial has an élan, a martial fervour, which the phlegmatic German in the thirties lacks.

  40. To Martin Culpepper and Watts McHurdie and Philemon Ward and Jacob Dolan and Oscar Fernald, the panic came in their late thirties and early forties, a flash of lightning that prophesied the coming of the storm and stress of an inexorable fate.

  41. Somewhere in the early thirties she had gone with her newly wedded husband, an adventurous Yankee by the name of Storm, to the Rio Grande and started a settlement they called Eagle Pass.

  42. His early thirties found him well on his feet.

  43. IV If Evylyn's beauty had hesitated an her early thirties it came to an abrupt decision just afterward and completely left her.

  44. The Winnebagoes lingered around in this part of Iowa in the thirties and forties, when they were finally removed to Minnesota, much against their own wishes.

  45. The Indians in Linn county during the thirties and forties dressed in skins, lived in tepees, and owned ponies; all wore government blankets and had guns, also procured from the government.

  46. It had accomplished its educational work in the early thirties when it found its complete expression in Webster's reply to Hayne.

  47. What was going on in the South during the thirties and forties of the last century?


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thirties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.