Alan J. Heeger

Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.

American Physicist

James M. Buchanan

The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.

American Economist

Corita Kent

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

American Artist

James Stockdale

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

American Soldier

Ralph Adams Cram

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

American Architect

Jill Lepore

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.

American Historian

Lytton Strachey

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

English Critic

Wilhelm Dilthey

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

German Historian

George Saintsbury

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

English Writer

Edmund Morgan

Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.

Used to refer to the 18th position in historical timelines, particularly centuries.

Historical Context

Commonly refers to significant birthdays or anniversaries, like turning 18.

Milestone Celebration

Indicates precise order in a sequence, often in competitions or lists.

Ranked Position

Signifies an item's place within a structured and ordered list or series.

Sequential Order

Often used to denote dates and days within a month.

Calendar Reference

 It's actually a nickname given to priests in the eighteenth century." And he went, "Furthermore, I'm a priest myself." And so I said, "Would you mind coming to the court?" And he said he'd be delighted. And I said -- and he said, "Would you like me to wear my dog collar?"

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 brendan and you and i start to assemble the components of the electric force so this is a fantastic bit of engineering it's obviously working very smoothly they had these kind of mechanisms around sixteenth seventeenth eighteenth century

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