Quarter-century synonyms

For the first quarter century Watertown ranked next to Boston in population and area.

An official cover-up of those ties for more than a quarter century is finally unraveling.

After the British Act of 1750 forbidding the erection or the operating of iron or steel mills in the colonies, Franklin wrote Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind and the Peopling of Countries (1751); its thesis was that manufactures come to be common only with a high degree of social development and with great density of population, and that Great Britain need not, therefore, fear the industrial competition of the colonies, but it is better known for the estimate (adopted by Adam Smith) that the population of the colonies would double every quarter-century; and for the likeness to Malthus's 4 " preventive check " of its statement: " The greater the common fashionable expense of any rank of people the more cautious they are of marriage."

Antique cars can include steam-powered vehicles, early handmade cars, mass-produced cars like the Ford Model T, and any other automobile that has been around for more than a quarter century.

Indeed, the general interest of her history in the quarter-century after the adoption of the Constitution lies mainly in her connexion with the fortunes of that great political party.