the world's population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by mid-century
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A different social dimension was introduced mid-century with Ruskin's passionate advocacy of liberal art education.
By the mid-century the institutions, markets and practices we associate with cultural production were firmly established.
Between 1830 and mid-century, colonial licensing laws were repealed, temporary, or rarely enforced.
At mid-century men engaged in intercolonial trade rather than in tobacco planting and those who cultivated strong Dutch connections owned more than a fourth of all the slaves in Virginia.
The most successful artist of the mid-century was Boucher.
By mid-century the Federal Reserve System had become a bona fide central bank with headquarters in Washington.
The expansion of agricultural land and farm numbers continued well into the 1900s, but by mid-century both trends had been reversed.
The French landscape artists of the mid-century are also accorded their proper place here.
Historical genre was gradually eclipsed by scenes from a semi-imaginary Orient, a reflection of the colonialism of the mid-century.
It's likely the legend of Robin Hood arose in mid-century or maybe a little earlier, during the reigns of Edward II or Edward III.
adjective
Characteristic of or occurring in the middle of a century.
mid-century modernist architecture
the mid-century wars generated much patriotic rhetoric
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She noted that the schemes of the mid-century urban planners could not have destroyed neighborhoods better if they had been designed to do so.
It is hard to envision any stable European system emerging to replace the one finally buried in these last of the mid-century wars.
There is almost no trace of mid-century Western art in any museum in Russia.
The mid-century domestic political upheavals in France altered the pace and nature of the French colonial impact in North Africa.
Like any Southern California Modernist, Schmidt reveres Neutra's mid-century architecture.
Clashes continued, as it proved impossible in peacetime to reduce the burden of taxes first justified by the demands of mid-century wars.
The general recovery of the English Church from mid-century disarray can be traced in the evidence from the 1590s onwards of widespread restoration of church buildings and refurnishing for the Protestant liturgy.
She does present the reader with an intriguing picture of how women of the "popular classes" fit into the changing economy of mid-century Paris.
His modular creations upended mid-century design.
In mid-century America, it was against the law for a pension fund to invest all but a small part of its portfolio in stocks.
Definition of mid-century in US English:
mid-century
noun
The middle of a century.
the world's population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by mid-century
Example sentencesExamples
It's likely the legend of Robin Hood arose in mid-century or maybe a little earlier, during the reigns of Edward II or Edward III.
At mid-century men engaged in intercolonial trade rather than in tobacco planting and those who cultivated strong Dutch connections owned more than a fourth of all the slaves in Virginia.
By mid-century the Federal Reserve System had become a bona fide central bank with headquarters in Washington.
A different social dimension was introduced mid-century with Ruskin's passionate advocacy of liberal art education.
The expansion of agricultural land and farm numbers continued well into the 1900s, but by mid-century both trends had been reversed.
By the mid-century the institutions, markets and practices we associate with cultural production were firmly established.
The most successful artist of the mid-century was Boucher.
The French landscape artists of the mid-century are also accorded their proper place here.
Between 1830 and mid-century, colonial licensing laws were repealed, temporary, or rarely enforced.
Historical genre was gradually eclipsed by scenes from a semi-imaginary Orient, a reflection of the colonialism of the mid-century.
adjective
Characteristic of or occurring in the middle of a century.
mid-century modernist architecture
the mid-century wars generated much patriotic rhetoric
Example sentencesExamples
The mid-century domestic political upheavals in France altered the pace and nature of the French colonial impact in North Africa.
She noted that the schemes of the mid-century urban planners could not have destroyed neighborhoods better if they had been designed to do so.
In mid-century America, it was against the law for a pension fund to invest all but a small part of its portfolio in stocks.
Like any Southern California Modernist, Schmidt reveres Neutra's mid-century architecture.
There is almost no trace of mid-century Western art in any museum in Russia.
She does present the reader with an intriguing picture of how women of the "popular classes" fit into the changing economy of mid-century Paris.
His modular creations upended mid-century design.
It is hard to envision any stable European system emerging to replace the one finally buried in these last of the mid-century wars.
The general recovery of the English Church from mid-century disarray can be traced in the evidence from the 1590s onwards of widespread restoration of church buildings and refurnishing for the Protestant liturgy.
Clashes continued, as it proved impossible in peacetime to reduce the burden of taxes first justified by the demands of mid-century wars.