For much of the twentieth century it nurtured a strong style of figurative surrealism, as in the works of Ivan Albright and Ed Paschke.

For this reason, work on unification, for much of the twentieth century, focused on understanding the three " quantum " forces: electromagnetism and the weak and strong forces.

For Canadian historian Charles Norris Cochrane ( 1889 – 1945 ), Thucydides ' fastidious devotion to observable phenomena, focus on cause and effect, and strict exclusion of other factors anticipates twentieth century scientific positivism.

For better or worse, the twentieth century.

For most of the twentieth century a " Strowger switch " or a " crossbar switch " referred to an individual piece of mechanical equipment making up part of an exchange.

" For Roy Porter, these often violent and invasive psychiatric interventions are indicative of both the well-intentioned desire of psychiatrists to find some medical means of alleviating the suffering of the thousands of patients in psychiatric hospitals in the twentieth century and also the relative lack of social power of those same patients to resist the increasingly radical and even reckless interventions of asylum doctors.

For much of the remainder of the twentieth century, Alexander's views remained predominant.

For the most part, they still take place in the American West and reveal the progression of the Old West mentality into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

" For much of the twentieth century, scientific study of the Hyades focused on determining its distance ; modeling its evolution ; confirming or rejecting candidate members ; and characterizing individual stars.

For most of the twentieth century, however, it was banned in most nations.

For a period of around two decades in the twentieth century ( 1968-1982 ), 1, 630 children from Réunion were relocated to France, particularly to Creuse.

For much of the twentieth century, the village grew slowly and steadily.

For much of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Rainier was known to the rest of Oregon as home to Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, the only commercial nuclear reactor in the state, which supplied electricity to Portland and its suburbs starting in March 1976.

For decades the major industry of the town was coal mining, but as mines closed throughout the latter half of the twentieth century the area has had ongoing economic difficulty.

For example, in the twentieth century, many land reforms emerged from a particular political ideology, such as communism or socialism.

For much of the twentieth century, streets were designed by engineers who were charged only with ensuring traffic flow and not with fostering the other functions of streets.

For most of the twentieth century the Swedish Navy focused on the threat of a full-scale invasion of Sweden via the Baltic and protecting commercial shipping.

For many years during the twentieth century, the water supply was rainwater harvested from several large bitumen sealed catchment areas behind Longreach Bay.

For much of the twentieth century, Cahir stood at an intersection of two busy national roadways: the Dublin to Cork N8, and the Limerick to Waterford N24.

For most of the twentieth century, Asakusa was the major entertainment district in Tokyo.

For example, in the early twentieth century the scientific consensus was that there existed an absolute frame of reference, given the name luminiferous ether.

For example, one clause declares that the “ date of departure homeward for foreign ships shall not be later than the twentieth day of the ninth month .” In addition to this, Iemitsu forbade alterations of the set price for raw silk and thus made sure that competition between trading cities was brought to a minimum.

For two-thirds of the twentieth century, the New York Central was known to have some of the most famous trains in the United States.

For much of the twentieth century it was formally known as the Chronicle of Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel Mahre, but is now usually referred to as the Chronicle of Zuqnin or the Zuqnin Chronicle.

For nearly a century the cry has never failed to rally the fighting men of the regiment.

For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

For much of the 5th century at least democracy fed off an empire of subject states.

For example, R. I. Pervo dates Acts to the first quarter of the 2nd century.

For comparison, a Roman 1st BC century catapult using stones of 6. 55 kg fired with a kinetic energy of 16, 000 joules, while a mid 19th century 12 pound cannon firing projectiles of 4. 1 kg fired the projectile with a kinetic energy of 240, 000 joules.

For about a century it belonged to the Delhi empire, and then fell into Uzbek hands.

For example, some Byzantine coins of the 1st century BC and later show the head of Artemis with bow and quiver, and feature a crescent with what appears to be a six-rayed star on the reverse.

For a time in the 19th century, stolen bases were credited when a baserunner reached an extra base on a base hit from another player.

For more than half a century the Lions have been synonymous with the red jersey that sports the amalgamated crests of the four unions.

For over a century biblical scholars believed that Chronicles and the narrative portions of Ezra-Nehemiah came from the same author, but many scholars now believe this to be improbable.

For a century free trade was the one cause which could unite all Liberals.

For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.

For over a century, they were hunted almost to extinction by whalers until protected by the international community in 1966.

For example, the traditional common law rule through most of the 19th century was that a plaintiff could not recover for a defendant's negligent production or distribution of a harmful instrumentality unless the two were in privity of contract.

For the first part of the 20th century, most new vehicles came to Cuba from the United States.

For a period ending in the mid-20th century, long-serving cardinal priests were entitled to fill vacancies that arose among the cardinal bishops, just as cardinal deacons of ten years ' standing are still entitled to become cardinal priests.

For example, in the 16th century, Reginald Pole was a cardinal for 18 years before he was ordained a priest.

For many years, cardinal Giovanni di San Paolo ( elevated in 1193 ) was identified as member of the Colonna family and therefore its first representative in the College of Cardinals, but modern scholars have established that this was based on the false information from the beginning of 16th century.

For example, it has been suggested that, in the early 20th century Shanghai, “ Western food, and in particular identifiably nourishing items like milk, became a symbol of a neo-traditional Chinese notion of family .”

For the first time in nearly a century, Conservative Judaism is no longer the largest denomination in America.

For example, in the Opium War in China, during the 19th century, British battleships bombarded the coastal areas and fortifications from afar, safe from the reach of the Chinese cannon.

For example, there were no more than five civil wars underway simultaneously in the first half of the 20th century, while over 20 concurrent civil wars were occurring at the end of the Cold War, before a significant decrease as conflicts strongly associated with the superpower rivalry came to an end.