the last century
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The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.