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Easily shaped, it just as easily wears away, so outdoor temple decorations last only a few decades, and there is a constant demand for replacements.
Absent significant reform, the escalating costs of these programs will, in decades to come, crowd out what remains of the federal "discretionary" budget--the FBI, NASA, Yosemite, and all the rest.
The abolitionist movement began on the heels of the Second Great Awakening of the first three decades of the century.
The generation that came of age in the first two decades of the century was probably the last of the unselfconscious breed.
The notion of “appropriate roles in life” still governed relations among equals and it would take decades for Americans to grasp that the politics of equality can not brook the coercion of women into domestic, apolitical roles, nor could some misguided theory of social organization tolerate the relegation of blacks to a limited number of lower-status professions.