mid-20th

There is much flashbacking to the mid-20th century (the book was written and set in 1988).

June Books 17) Lud-In-The-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees nwhyte 2010

By the mid-20th century, when people talked about inflation—whether they were economists speaking at conferences or shoppers chatting in line at the grocery store—they were usually talking about higher prices.

Using a Dictionary to Define Inflation Can Spell Trouble Justin Lahart 2011

Either way, says Elliott Sclar , an urban planning professor at Columbia University, Columbus Square is a signature development of our time, just as the red-brick slab towers surrounding the site were once the vanguard of mid-20th century urban development.

Luxury Project on Columbus Stirs Up Area Craig Karmin 2011

Phyllis Ryan (mid-20th century), professional chemist who interestingly kept her own name despite being married to a rather conservative politician

The Prime Minister's haiku nwhyte 2009

It is the kind of New York that we got from children's books written in that era (mid-20th century), where New York is actually a place or more accurately a set of places, rather than a fuzzy generic dream concept.

mrissa: Books read, late January mrissa 2010

The Voice's founding editor, Dan Wolf, is scandalously unheralded today, but he was one of the most significant journalists of the mid-20th century—Wolf certainly looms larger than Thomas King Forcade.

Let's Print It, Man RUSS SMITH 2011

Pre-adulthood can be compared to adolescence, an idea invented in the mid-20th century as American teenagers were herded away from the fields and the workplace and into that new institution, the high school.

Where Have The Good Men Gone? Kay S. Hymowitz 2011

The “Confederate Battle Flag” that woman is carrying is an invention from the mid-20th century, a derivation of various confederate emblems, created for the purpose of expressing resistance to the civil rights movement.

Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery 2010

A grandmaster of responsible popularization from the mid-20th century, Tarn was a towering figure in classical scholarship.

Handing Out Knives to Madmen Josiah Ober 2011

By the mid-20th century, Stowe's story had entered the broader culture in all sorts of forms, many utterly divorced from the gravity of the original.

The Novel That Changed America Fergus M. Bordewich 2011