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" After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. "
Graydon Carter
" Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s. "
Sarah Parcak
" A seersucker suit is one of the most iconic styles dating from the 1920s and is still a gentleman's best bet when it's hot and sticky. "
Roger Stone
" Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in the 1800s, but became popularized in the 1920s and the 1930s. "
Jennifer Lee
" I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s. "
Talulah Riley
" If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era. "
Lauren Bacall
" If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street. "
Joseph Rykwert
" I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet. "
Colin Hanks
" In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide. "
Hans Adolf Krebs
" Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists. "
Naomi Wolf
" I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women. "
Francois Nars
" I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general. "
Terence Winter
" Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s. "
J. Paul Getty
" Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s. "
David Rockefeller
" My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.' "
Jan Vogler
" Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s. "
Issey Miyake
" Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s. "
Natasha Little
" Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. "
David Gross
" The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest. "
Robert Gottlieb
" The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to '60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very desirable when I listened to these songs. "
Yasmine Hamdan
" There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it's amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff. "
Solange Knowles
" There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds. "
Ron Chernow
" The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950. "
Tony Bennett
" Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. "
Stephen Hawking
" When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. "
Nick Clooney
" While writing 'The Orientalist,' I played a soundtrack that alternated between ragtime and Azeri mugams, Russian operas and German and Italian pop songs from the 1920s and 30s. When I finally finished, I gorged on all my music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. "
Tom Reiss
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