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- noun the decade from 1830 to 1839
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Examples
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WILLIAM BURKE and WILLIAM HARE are scratching out a living in 1830s Edinburgh.
First Look: Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis in Burke and Hare | /Film 2010
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India in the 1830s is wonderfully evoked -- the smells, rituals and squalor ...
Sea of Poppies: Summary and book reviews of Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh. 2008
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The first United States citizen to experienced the market region of our concern was Josiah Harlan in 1830s and 1840s (see
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Rather, what has remained constant since the 1830s is the degree to which political opportunism has dictated prevailing attitudes toward the West.
The War That Turned China Against the West Raymond Zhong 2011
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Also in Paris in the 1830s was his good friend, the author James Fennimore Cooper, by then recognized as one of America's foremost writers, creator of the "Leatherstocking Tales" and other popular novels.
Ushering the Old Masters Into the New World John Wilmerding 2011
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I seriously wonder whether the dissers of the 1830s are any more closely related to today's rap music than the ancient Greeks.
Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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To settlers on the bottom lands of the great midwestern rivers and on the forested fringes of the Great Plains, the West of the 1830s was a rumor of indefinite obstacles.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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There is also the story of Dr. James McCune Smith, a little-known but influential New York native who in the 1830s was the first black university-trained physician in the country.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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The verbal form shampooing had given way to the shampoo in the 1830s, but it was still more a practice than a product.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In time, abbreviators of the 1830s discovered that there was even more amusement to be obtained by using letters for phrases spelled wrongly.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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