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The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a tremendous growth of the air transport industry, and the FAA's corresponding responsibilities grew enormously from the 1960s through 2001.
There is also a Bibliography of sorts: the OED was, but the OED2e was not consulted; Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable was, perhaps somewhat uncritically; and, among works that either fail to reflect the latest scholarship, are not pertinent to the task set, or are just plain awful, the following are listed: Wilfred Funk's Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories , (a 1978 reprint of a 1950 work); Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1897); a modern selection from Johnson's Dictionary (1755); Partridge's Origins (1977), a work long criticized for its errors; and Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1965), which is a $15 reprint, cursorily updated, of the 19th-century Ogilvie edition of Annandale's Dictionary .
By the early twentieth century the various chapters had become secret societies with restricted membership.
In his autobiography, Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza writes about the pochos he found in Sacramento, California, in the second decade of the twentieth century: “They had learned to speak English of sorts and could still speak Spanish, also of sorts.
The Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union, and journalistic expertise devoted to these supremely important phenomena of the twentieth century began with Vladimir Ilich Lenin.