| 单词 | generation |
| 例句 | He declined, saying that he intended to make the name of Cicero as famous as those of Scaurus and Catulus, political giants of previous generations. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Some part was always about to fall down, and for five generations the same family, the Parslows, had been employed full time by the College as masons and scaffolders. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to leave behind something that might somehow benefit the next generation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Joseph tried hard to piece all the generations together, and he drew arrows between people he thought were connected, husbands to wives, parents to children, grandparents to grandchildren. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The Bureau’s Garden City representative, and the agent responsible for a sizable portion of western Kansas, is a lean and handsome fourth- generation Kansan of forty-seven named Alvin Adams Dewey. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately he belonged to dm later generation, of Mordred’s fashions, and he was judged by the new standards. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Take an imaginary situation in which a population of a million insects is multiplying five times in each generation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was no reason to think it would end; it had seen generations come and go. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Portraits of my smiling sisters—and past generations of Belles—are set in circular frames. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Cyril Ramaphosa was elected secretary-general, evidence that the torch was being passed from an older generation of leadership to a younger one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For generations thereafter, the Arabs recounted the legend of a boy who had turned himself into the wind, almost destroying a military camp, in defiance of the most powerful chief in the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the days when the Seven Kingdoms were seven kingdoms, not a generation passed that three or four of them were not at war. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Departing from Goedart’s example, she also included eggs, declaring boldly that eggs were the source of every caterpillar despite widespread public belief in spontaneous generation of insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There is no danger of an uprising here among the privileged, among those whose names, are never placed in the reaping balls, whose children never die for the. supposed crimes committed generations ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z This was generations upon generations ago, before Oklahoma was even a state. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z At first sight, Pascal’s claim that progress has been continuous seems nonsense: we would accumulate experience from generation to generation only if we had a reliable way of recording and transmitting it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But for those not yet touched by the disease and certainly for the generations as yet unborn, prevention is the imperative need. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I stared at the curving stairway of stone in the dim hall, the center of each step worn smooth by the tread of many generations. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Would the older generation of great-aunts and great-uncles think she was a bad mom? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Some came from generations of military service, while others were teenage girlfriends who’d become brides just ahead of a deployment—their futures now having taken a sudden, complicated turn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Off in the distant horizon lay the reality that the task of reaching the necessary energies would overmatch the elegant bench science of Rutherford’s generation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They are transmitted, like mitochondria, from generation to generation of eggs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As Kuhn pointed out over and over again, one of the central purposes of an education in the sciences is to hide this basic truth from the next generation of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The answer is, of course: to ensure that future generations of witches and wizards enjoy their strange beauty and powers as we have been privileged to do. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Laborers in the Cripple Creek mining district would not organize and win their rights for another generation. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z We’re talking about fully grown teenagers being taught this way, for generations. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I watched them, nevertheless, looking for evidence of those elastic, sturdy strands that bind generations in a web of inheritance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I tell you, it’s good to know that the message hasn’t been entirely lost in your generation.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There is obviously no end to this; it can tie up a whole life, and has luckily done just that during the past century for generations of comparative linguists. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The blue and green houses had belonged to her family for generations. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But as I came out from my holding pen it was possible that no generation other than my brother’s was as well disposed to accept me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Hand-clapping songs, circle games and dances in which narrative movements are used were performed and elaborated on generation after generation by children and youngsters. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She accedes to the subservient wifely role typical of women of her generation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then they pass those changes on to each new generation of cells through cell division, a random process that produces even more changes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They tied up close to the Zaal itself, at a mooring Tony said had been used by their family for generations. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Even a generation ago no one knew that to fill large areas with a single species of tree was to invite disaster. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maybe it was better that it died so that it wouldn’t produce more generations of stupid baby turtles. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Our achievements rest on the accomplishments of 40,000 generations of our human predecessors, all but a tiny fraction of whom are nameless and forgotten. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now at night, I held you and a great fear, wide as all our American generations, took me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Our information on what was happening in and around Philadelphia comes from Washington’s reports, letters, and diaries and from family stories handed down generation to generation. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Their fatal encounter represented a momentary breakdown in the dominant pattern of nonviolent conflict within the American revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For generations, every male Okojo had served the Sons of the Six, a longer tradition than that of almost any other family in Lkossa. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Guilt is not readily passed down the generations, but responsibility can be. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Can the research being done here, and by a new generation of neuroscientists, prevent similar tragedy? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps because we are still living their legacy, we have yet to reach a genuinely historical perspective on the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z These stories had been passed down from generation to generation, with my father having learned them from my grandpa. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He would go on to rewrite that old red record book in dozens of single-game, single-season, and career categories, becoming the most dominant player of his, or any other, generation. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Desdemona had just turned forty-three and, in the manner of women of her generation, she was practically an old woman. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A thousand generations of men and women who had cherished the land gave power to his voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Another difference was that a new generation had come to court. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am always thinking of my daughter and the line of generations that will follow her. Humans have a great impact on the ocean. There is still time to reverse what we’ve done.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z His theories on defensive warfare are generations ahead of his time. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My generation seemed to struggle with the commitment, as if it were an alligator from some murky swamp. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even twenty minutes had passed after we’d scarfed down the entire plate of cookies, when Tamika’s gut interrupted my explanation of mutations in DNA over thousands of generations to create a new species. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Mosquitoes exposed to DDT for several generations turned into strange creatures called gynandromorphs — part male and part female. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Like she said, we are the heroes and it is up to us to let the younger generation know what’s going on. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "And now, it is my pleasure to present the newest generation of Belles," Du Barry announces. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Most workboats get named for mothers or grandmothers, but my sister was the first girl born to the Parks family in two generations. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Charles Hubert Parry viewed the war, as did Elgar, from an older generation’s perspective, composing a cycle of choral songs of mature, eloquent poignancy in Songs of Farewell. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Von Tschermak had been a graduate student at Halle and in Ghent, where, working on pea hybrids, he had also observed hereditary traits moving independently and discretely, like particles, across generations of hybrids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Last week, he went into this whole thing about how “this new generation don’t wanna work hard,” and that making pizzas “ain’t a man’s job.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z By the end of the twentieth century, Halliday was widely recognized as the greatest videogame designer of his generation—and, some would argue, of all time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “You heard Reyna talking about the ancient lands. They’re much too dangerous. Roman demigods have been forbidden to go there for generations. Even Octavian couldn’t get around that rule.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Yet we have made the vow; and though no other human generation hath done other than despoil, perhaps we shall be the first. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His philosophy, speeches, and life transitions were now being adopted by a whole new generation of youngsters, internationally. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Another Korean man of his generation would not forgive the moment so quickly, if ever at all. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Combine the long-range and short-range perspectives and the result becomes the central paradox of the revolutionary era, which was also the apparently intractable dilemma facing the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “The theory behind the camps was to cleanse unto three generations the families of incorrect thinkers. So it was inconsistent to allow another generation to be born.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It is a version of what I would hear dozens of times from other Volpe students through the generations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z His thoughts, his ideas, his conviction, and his courage provide an inspiration even now to new generations that come.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The economic advantage once believed to last only two or three generations is now believed to last closer to five. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “It ought to be good,” he replied, “it has been the work of many generations.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z They forced the workers to back down and sidelined the union in Western Pennsylvania for two generations. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “Many generations ago, our kingdom negotiated a treaty with the Fairy Queen that established the border between her lands and ours,” said the Mistress. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z That pursuit itself is nothing novel, of course, but now, a new generation of powerful technology lets researchers see the inside of the brain, watch it work, literally, and observe when it fails to work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Thus, it could assert its power over the fortunes of later generations and had to be appeased or controlled. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “To someone whose people have lived here for generations, that’s not that long.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Inside sat all the women of the older generation, even Grand-grand-grand Auntie, who was ninety-three. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Emily tried to imagine that—year after year in one house, one neighborhood, one school, with memories that went back for generations. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The Adams team, then, was charging Jefferson with two serious offenses against the unwritten code of political honor purportedly binding on the leadership class of the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “There’s no risk you’d be raising a little generation of ignoramuses?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It passed through as many as sixteen generations of infection as it jumped from person to person in Sudan. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "No, she's from the generation before me. She's the queen's favorite Belle. She kept her at court to work with Princess Charlotte." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z At the periphery, interstellar matter is compressed by the supernova shock wave, triggering new generations of cloud collapse and star formation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, our present-day knowledge will prove to be incomplete and limited in the eyes of future generations; we cannot even begin to guess what will one day be known. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Seven generations back, yes. An aunt. Her brother is the one who carried on the Prior name.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Some residents can trace their families back generations; others are transient, moving every time they get a new job. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z At elite universities, classrooms are filled with women, blacks, Jews, and Latinos, groups largely excluded two generations ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was odd in this time when extended families were more often than not a convoluted web that spanned six living generations or more. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “That’s quite a shift. That kind of leap in personality between generations is almost genetically impossible these days.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Researchers, absent the urgent need to know why radar operators fell asleep, started a new generation of more formal, deliberate experiments, trying to measure the capabilities of the human mind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "You're very polite but I belong to another generation," he announced solemnly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z All of us will spend many years, if not generations, recovering from that profound hurt. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess I do. There’s been a long chain of events leading up to this time; the dreams of men in my generation are as insignificant as that—” he snapped his fingers sharply. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The failure or success of this generation of Mexicans in the United States will determine the place that Mexicans will hold here in years to come, Sarukhan said, and the outlook is not encouraging. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In the evenings, she and I would often do our homework together, sipping tea—two generations of Pashtun women happily huddled over their books. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “And yes, I definitely want you to interview someone from an older generation than your parents’. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In fact, most people of the time still believed in “spontaneous generation,” a theory put forth by the philosopher Aristotle in 330 B.C., almost two thousand years before Maria’s time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The “GDs” grew up in the experiments, where they only had to learn enough to survive until the next generation. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I touch the line connecting me to them, and the line connecting Evelyn to her parents, and the line connecting them to their parents, all the way back through eight generations, counting my own. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z After all the people he had hurt, after the generations this family had haunted, we helped bring Jawad Sahib and his father to justice. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z People like my father couldn’t see that the younger generation wanted Cuba to change for the better. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z In the early days of Branwell’s silence, I wondered—in light of Nikki s injury—if a new generation of survivor guilt had spilled over into him. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Sing how it passed down through nine generations, gathering invisibly within the polluted pool of the Stephanides family. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Aureliano Segundo recognized him at once, because that hereditary memory had been transmitted from generation to generation and had come to him through the memory of his grandfather. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Almost like toys abandoned in the woods for years, recently discovered by the next generation of kids ready to play war. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Jefferson had also shared with Madison his intriguingly utopian suggestion that each generation was sovereign, so that the laws made for one generation should expire after about twenty years. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the way people did then, the Little family included a few generations. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the generation that followed Beethoven, Chopin was the composer whose influence was slowest to make its impact. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Ah, that son of Noah’s had been cursed, down to the present groaning generation: A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “The crazy thing is how the girls in my day were a lot better than my father’s girls. I wonder what the next generation will be like.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Mendel’s question was microscopic: How does a single organism transmit information to its offspring over a single generation? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Even I could feel it, a tug from something that had been in my family for generations. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It had been planted many generations ago, and was now thick and tall, for it was constantly tended. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I was introduced to that text familiar to generations of Catholic students, The Baltimore Catechism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the same vein, it stressed the importance of accepting the evidence of your own eyes, rather than believing implicitly the words handed down from past generations—the Ancients were not infallible. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Better to control that spark and pass it carefully from one generation to the next, like an Olympic torch. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z People who say today’s generation has no work ethic would take that back if they saw how busy I’d been in one short week. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to recognize that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have the people of this generation come down to hunting mice? They aren’t very strong, the new people, but I hardly thought mice would be game for them.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face has a ghostly resemblance to one of Yolanda's generation. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Six might sound like a lot of generations to you, but Lanternwood is old. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He thought that the previous two generations had been coddled too much because of “mistaken theories of education.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “He was my mentor in every respect....He exerted more influence over me than any person, parent, teacher, or anyone else of the older generation.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She was from the generation of the bewildered, who did not understand what had happened to Nigeria but allowed themselves to be swept along. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Not right away, but in a few generations. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sure, I've tested power generation, life support, the trailer bubble, and the bedroom. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This stands out as a beautiful, beautiful thing for all generations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Tanaka had no appreciation for bloodlines or former lives—the kind that stretched back generations, the ones that no one knew about. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Blue’s Clues got rid of the cleverness and originality that made Sesame Street the most beloved television program of its generation, created a plodding, literal show, and repeated each episode five times in a row. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a difficult decision—the Yellins had headed enforcement in Florin for generations, and they took their work more than seriously. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A person’s index is considered private, so we can only go by visible traits, which are no longer as obvious as they had been in past generations. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “That land’s been in the family for generations,” Mom said, “and it’s staying in the family. You never sell land like that.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But a generation’s worth of hard feelings and resentments separated the leadership. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He sought warmth and company in the bustling Bartleby mausoleum, but the Bartleby family—seven generations of them—had no time for him that night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “We’ll take our chances of becoming ‘contaminated’ with a hundred thousand ‘aliens,’” one reporter wrote, “if they produce only one William Frederick Friedman in a generation!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Successive generations of people in bunches, never seeming very well organized, have been building the MBL since it was chartered in 1888. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But while many of Man o’ War’s get were the best of their generations, none compared to their sire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In such individuals, the original cause of the defect must have occurred in the generation preceding its appearance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Annabeth had told him that in each generation, a few children of Athena were sent on the quest to recover the missing Parthenon statue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Any Dominican of a certain generation would have jumped at that gunshot sound. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This particular form of discrimination altered the destinies of generations of African Americans, including many of the men in my family, limiting their income, their opportunity, and, eventually, their aspirations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He moved along the bank a few paces where generations of peasants had worn a “highway,” and soon came to the path. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Bobby, in contrast, was nervous and volatile, the chess arriviste of Brooklyn, a colt of a player, and as it was beginning to develop, the spearhead of the coming generation of American players. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z These injuries to the genetic material are of a kind that may lead to disease in the individual exposed or they may make their effects felt in future generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Additionally, because most Sherpas had lived for generations in villages situated between 9,000 and 14,000 feet, they were physiologically adapted to the rigors of high altitude. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z These two debates, about thinking and knowing, interlock because both generations have downplayed the idea that the new science was grounded in a new type of engagement with sensory reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Although discussions of mutations usually refer to those in the germ cells, which may then make their effect felt in future generations, there may also be mutations in the body cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In fact, before his career was cut short by cancer, Bickel would become perhaps the finest constitutional scholar of his generation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I checked yesterday's power generation, and it was 97 percent of optimal. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And it carries things you would never believe from generation to generation. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It had taken the Freys three generations to complete their bridge; when they were done they'd thrown up stout timber keeps on either bank, so no one might cross without their leave. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Every generation seems to produce a few marquee academics who advance the thinking on black culture. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Based on lesson grades, Amber's the top of our generation, always getting perfect scores from Du Barry. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Gold for four generations,” Harry would boast, as if four generations of exile and defeat were something to take pride in. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A whole generation of teens was anticipating having to become soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "This is actually a rare and valuable artifact passed down for generations. Lancelot used it, so did Sir Gawain, and for a time the Black Knight kept it on a chain next to his heart." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z My parents, a generation or so removed from these earliest settlers of Alexandra, had, too, come from the tribal reserves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pew report, done in cooperation with several other nonprofit groups, found that nearly 90 percent of teachers said the Internet is creating “an easily distracted generation with short attention spans.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Ali and Baba grew up together as childhood playmates—at least until polio crippled Ali’s leg—just like Hassan and I grew up a generation later. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Soon I became as Americanized as my classmates—most of whom were two or three generations removed from their immigrant ancestors, and all of whom were children of middle-class parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Zinzi, now seventeen years old, was preparing to take the same path as generations of Xhosa boys before him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, even to be seriously considered by Nature underscored the real-world applications of this new generation of neuroscience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z That pressure has given way, in the case of the subsequent generation, to American common sense. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The characters, then, of the younger and older generations are of this kind. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Every year has its own events and developments that affect the lives of those living then and perhaps those of future generations. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I just don’t understand why this younger generation can’t just respect the process,” he said, and that was met with a number of boos and hisses. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z First, the achievement of the revolutionary generation was a collective enterprise that succeeded because of the diversity of personalities and ideologies present in the mix. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “The Fowls have been subverting justice for generations. Racketeering, smuggling, armed robbery. Mostly corporate crime last century.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Every generation continued to live like the previous generation, making only small improvements here and there in the way things were done. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z What is happening now is in large part a result of the biological unsophistication of past generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It must have always been so in prison, though it cannot be said that earlier generations looked upon it with today’s tolerance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Hard to lose a big jute farm that's been in the family for generations. And to get nothing for it! Happened to my family, too, but at least they sold it for something." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The mine had been owned by the Dozmary family for eleven generations. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z As she spoke, I realized that the Reign of Terror had ravaged—still ravaged—generations. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For the chief virtue of a gradual approach was to extend the cost of compensation over several decades so that the full bill never landed at one time or even on one generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Paul’s parade would announce to the world that a new generation of suffragists had arrived, one that was ready to make some real changes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A new generation of agents would have to come on the scene, more than a decade later, before the United States was ready to make its next move against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The pentatonic aspect of Debussy’s piano music provided much inspirational fuel for later generations of jazz pianists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of lawbreakers,” said Fred solemnly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Moreover, as the systems of control have evolved, they have become perfected, arguably more resilient to challenge, and thus capable of enduring for generations to come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We might even imagine a kind of Martian Johnny Appleseed, robot or human, roaming the frozen polar wastes in an endeavor that benefits only the generations of humans to come. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometime in the distant past, a line of ancestral creatures must have developed this structure and found it worked, just as generations of long-ago crawling things in Mary’s world had developed the central spine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The Dragon was guardian of a treasure hoard so vast and valuable that they knew it would bring prosperity to their land for generations to come. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t mind working. And anyway, what would I do? I don’t like to watch TV. I’m out of touch with my own generation. And I have you and mom to thank for that.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Precisely because they were rare, the mutants had acted like lamps in the darkness, allowing biologists to track “the action of a gene,” as Morgan had described it, across generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This confirmed the family’s eternal devotion to San Antonio, but was not taken as a warning by future generations, who also tried to fly, although by different means. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I and my year—not “my generation” for destiny now cut too finely for that old phrase—I and those of my year were preeminently eligible for that. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Even within their bastion of privilege, Brandon is royalty—second generation at St. Joseph’s, football captain, the son of two doctors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Many thousand generation. My people remember. All long time ago, many thousand generation.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The present generation was shamelessly lax—in their carriage, and in every other way.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Opening up colleges to new kinds of students has generally meant one thing over the last generation: affirmative action. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Gerald Black had taken his degree in etheric physics the year before and, in common with his entire generation of physicists, found himself engaged in the problem of the Drive. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Could be a problem for another generation of demigods,” I agreed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty- four hours, and they never stopped. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was a circular process: one generation of lawyers hiring new lawyers whose life experience mirrored their own, leaving little room for diversity of any sort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This is no coincidence, but rather a sign of the way a new generation of dissectors were eagerly setting about their work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z By Holmberg’s time fewer than 150 remained—a loss of more than 95 percent in less than a generation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But it would be a commonplace to a man of Aristotle’s generation and time that the opinions of women and slaves were quite irrelevant. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure your generation knows what this is, but let’s give it a shot.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z It was a three-quarters-size instrument that had been in his family for generations. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The generation after Galileo had to acknowledge its dependence on Evidence-Indices and so, willy-nilly, it had to adopt the virtues of the judiciary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What he was planning was beyond belief, a mass murder that would destroy Britain for generations to come. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Extra butter for the youngsters, the problems facing today’s youth—you name it, and Mother defends the younger generation. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “My grandparents are from that generation,” I say. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z We walk away from the nurse’s station and toward the exit like the last living Lockwood man in his generation isn’t all alone behind us. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z So it was that my generation was born into a decade of heightened conflict. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But they had been lurking in the hearts and minds of the revolutionary generation all along. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He had the square, handsome face of his father, the porcelain complexion of his mother, and the dense overhang of eyebrows that ran in the Darwin family over generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I was prideful. My garment store had been in my family for several generations. I didn’t want to give it up.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “A celt is a kind of battle-axe,” said Arthur, surprising the magician with this piece of information more than he had been surprised for several generations. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was fifty-two years old, a different generation, the last child of eight, who spent his first twelve years on an orchard farm where his family raised sheep and chickens. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But the conflict within the American revolutionary generation remained a passionate yet bloodless affair in which the energies released by national independence did not devour its own children. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Whereas my father once told stories of historic battles and heroic Xhosa warriors, my mother would enchant us with Xhosa legends and fables that had come down from numberless generations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z People of my father’s generation sometimes showed off having passed through the initiation by carving scars into their foreheads and removing their lower teeth, but that tradition has almost disappeared. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z James had said his family had been living in this building for generations, and you could feel it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Very grand, as you’ll soon see. Four generations of Ashtons have lived out their days there.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z It also gave the public the freedom and opportunity to talk about Malcolm out loud, as opposed to in the murmured huddles that reflected the climate of tbe previous generation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Furnished with couches left behind by previous generations of Culver Creek students, the TV room had the musty air of dust and mildew—and, perhaps for that reason, was almost perennially unoccupied. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I don’t tell him about the generations of workers who fought and sometimes died for the ten-hour day and then the eight, although this is very much on my mind. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And above all, pass on this mes-sage £>f mine to those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She became a role model, inspiring generations of African American performers who followed her. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Thus the seeds of states’ rights were sown in the hearts of Jean Louise’s generation. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Each generation has the right to determine its own culture. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers had been using this phenomenon for millennia—breeding and interbreeding animals to produce natural variants, and selecting these variants over multiple generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z More people are getting those degrees than did a generation ago, but class still plays a big role in determining who does or does not. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But the rain of generations had poured upon this painting until now there was only a faint feathery shadow of bamboos left, and the hills were almost wholly gone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z On the important subject of science and the decline of magic the work done by the last generation of historians is curiously unhelpful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even worse, Werfel had collected some of the airy art of elfinkind, captured generations ago in some raid—paintings of heroes riding griffins and kings playing chess. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z One person stepped forward to answer the challenge, unquestionably the oldest, probably the wisest, member of the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It could mean the end of generations of peace. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In this age of electricity and modem heating systems, there is no need at all to employ the sorts of numbers necessary even a generation ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z There have been roughly 600 generations since human beings first ceased to be hunter-gatherers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The schools were new, built for the big generation that had come before, and the teachers had what in the Depression was considered a high-status job. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Remember you, when Sandwich arrived in the Underland the crawlers had been here for countless generations. No doubt they will remain when all thought of warm blood has passed,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The number of generations produced by an insect population in a year is important, and this varies with species and climate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Just as the name indicated, the Red Successors were the next generation of revolutionaries, and when they were old enough, they would become Red Guards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It is striking that the observational search for extraterrestrial life began in the same generation as the invention of the telescope, and with the greatest theoretician of the age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a Touchable wife, two Touchable daughters—whole Touchable generations waiting in their Touchable wombs “Where is the molestee now?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But who, if not me, and for how many generations must we be forgiven by our children? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My father, as I say, came of a generation mercifully free of such confusions of our professional values. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, any civilization that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonization must have exercised zero population growth or something very close to it for many generations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My glasses are old and used, several generations behind, but they work fine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A couple of generations of principals, school superintendents, and school boards have pretty much just left him alone. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It’s a game with us: the older generation speaking one language, the kids responding in another. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Richardson’s family, in fact, had lived in Shaker for three generations now—almost, Pearl learned, since the city had been founded. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The legend of Bilbo’s wealth was now too firmly fixed in the minds of the younger generation of hobbits. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Besides, the generation that emigrated came from Ukraine, which wasn’t Russia when they emigrated and isn’t Russia now either. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All of them were senior citizens now, their hair graying and shoulders curving, a sign of the decades and maybe also the weight they’d carried for future generations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We’re going to do a little project that I like to call living history. Where we study the different generations that make up our society.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Plays that get into the bloodstream of high school theater are lucrative sources of revenue for their creators and heirs—annuities that throw off income for generations without end. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “I know this because that stonecutter was my ancestor! He passed his skill down from generation to generation to…” The man broke off and looked closely at Amah. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have discovered on even the tiniest islands evidence of the existence of birds, insects and snails that lived there for countless generations, only to vanish when the first human farmers arrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But if the planet is to be saved for future generations, much more needs to be done. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Lyme, the tribute from District 2, who won her Hunger Games over a generation ago. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But white men with far more political power than that possessed by the Nation of Islam movement have been advocating exactly this, in effect, for generations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z He was a warrior, and this dark ferocity had been passed down in the blood of the Miyamoto family and he himself was fated to carry it into the next generation. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z As explained above, an early generation of stars first had to form. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The mental outlook of all future generations of Africans was at stake. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The next generation of suffragists respected the accomplishments of their foremothers, but many of them were impatient with the slow progress of the movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “This is something I think boys of your generation are going to see a lot of,” he said quietly, “and I will have to tell you about it now. Your friend is dead.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And if she admitted that the Smoke was gone, the rumor would make its way down through generations of uglies. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z By one means or another, the new generations suffer for the poisoning of their parents. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z For this reason, Southern Blacks until the present generation could be counted among America’s arch conservatives. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And on the beach the white and blue canoes that came from Nayarit were drawn up, canoes preserved for generations by a hard shell-like waterproof plaster whose making was a secret of the fishing people. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z In each generation, new tactics have been used for achieving the same goals—goals shared by the Founding Fathers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I note out of the corner of my occuli that this gets a smile—a real smile—from both moviegoers of the older generation. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z But to a generation of writers after Wharton that structure—the lives and mores of the rich, the wellborn, and the climbers—proved endlessly diverting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z ‘The guy in the U.S. Navy uniform ... he’s my great-great-uncle from World War Two, the first Latino submarine commander. You get the idea. A lot of warriors. Bellona was our patron goddess for generations.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Henry’s teacher railed against the enormous reparation payments, telling the students that it would take Germany at least three generations to pay off the debt. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z This environment gives us more material resources and longer lives than those enjoyed by any previous generation, but it often makes us feel alienated, depressed and pressured. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The offspring thus produced from the conjunction of deity and damsel hath a nature intermixed, the two species commingled, and perhaps, like the mule, is incapable itself of generation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z You will notice I say 'what' rather than 'who' is a great butler; for there was actually no serious dispute as to the identity of the men who set the standards amongst our generation. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z My fresh love of reading brought me to the transformative writers who have worked their magic on generations of readers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z These important studies establish the fact that the insecticidal poison affects a generation once removed from initial contact with it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was inherited from generations and generations of leaders before him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "This tradition goes back to the very beginning of our islands, and to the onset of our civilization. For generations my ancestors have had the grand privilege to be guardians of our most treasured jewels." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Why would the desert reveal such things to a stranger, when it knows that we have been here for generations?” said another of the chieftains. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And what is more, the words of the song also came back—words, I am certain, which were sung by the animals of long ago and have been lost to memory for generations. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Just a chapter from the Bible, from Matthew, with a single verse set apart in bold: O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We remember Columbus and the Arawaks, Cortes and the Aztecs, even the fate of the Tlingit in the generations after La Perouse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Future generations need the counsel of this prophetess,” she explained. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Pickles kept in dim crypts and basements by every family, each with their own recipe passed down from generation to generation. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z As he drifted into sleep, Stanley softly sang him the song that had been in his family for generations. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “An entire new generation of refugees. An entire new generation of orphaned children. Too much trauma. Far too many tragedies. And for what?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Yet again, I am reminded of how my generation has failed to instill in our children what is truly possible. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z So the forest through which Katz and I passed now was nothing like the forest that was known even to people of my father’s generation, but at least it was a forest. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The flesh of General Eisenhower consumed by generations of predators will speak aloud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was dedicated to reading good books, even if they were from another generation or didn’t make complete sense to him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Unfortunately,” Darkness said, “your generation is less concerned with learning the stories as well as sharing them, and more concerned with modern conveniences. As such, we are losing our memories.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z "Because it's protocol, and to signal to the world that our generation is over." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z For a time I too enjoyed a Catholicism some-thing like that enjoyed a generation before me by my parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The same dynamic benefited the members of that generation when they went off to college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On Rack 10 rows of next generation’s chemical workers were being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar, chlorine. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It only is because of messed-up reasons going back messed-up generations, old reasons, reasons that don’t jibe with this world today. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was tragic, Ridgeway said, to see the degeneration that can happen in just one generation, but money does that to a family sometimes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Too much of it and we obscure the all-pervasive sense of contingency as well as the problematic character of the choices facing the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “And the strongest memory that came was hunger. It came from many generations back. Centuries back. The population had gotten so big that hunger was everywhere. Excruciating hunger and starvation. It was followed by warfare.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I was convinced that this child would be a part of a new generation of South Africans for whom apartheid would be a distant memory — that was my dream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And being of the older generation, he could not be reproved. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Before you, before me, before the previous Receiver; and generations before him.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Coming next week, the shocking story of the flawed genius considered by many to be the greatest wizard of his generation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It’s 1930, because that would give the lawyer the benefit of a blessedly small generation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Hear the sound of horses galloping through generations. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Like other evangelicals of his generation, he means to take his faith with him as he makes his way in the world. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe you’ll come to know that every man in every generation is refired. Does a craftsman, even in his old age, lose his hunger to make a perfect cup—thin, strong, translucent?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Despite recent efforts to locate the title in the twentieth century, they comprised, by any informed and fair-minded standard, the greatest generation of political talent in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A legacy left by one girl, carried by one woman, was passed on to a new generation of teens who have the chance to make a difference like Anne’s diary did. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I learned a great deal about being formal just by listening to the way my father and other male relatives of his generation spoke. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So now we live here, in Morning Glory Cottage, where six generations of my family have lived before us, including Gram’s father, who was once the mayor of the village. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z "Not just one name. I was reciting the names of my ancestors, going back ten generations." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z White flowers vanished in the second generation, the hybrids, only to reemerge in some members of the third. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But if they planted seed from that first crop, yields dropped again, since the second generation of corn was not identical to the first. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Darwin’s question was macroscopic: How do organisms transmute information about their features over a thousand generations? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "Feast your eyes on our new generation of Belles!" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I had never thought of that before, but he’s right—we don’t know what’s happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And second, once born, that gross-beaked finch must be able to transmit the same trait to its offspring, thereby fixing the variation for generations to come. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Old enough to be warm and worn by a generation or two. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z It’s twenty-two years since we defeated Voldemort at the Battle of Hogwarts, and I’m delighted to say there is a new generation being brought up having known only the slightest conflict. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z He was supposed to have lived a generation earlier than the most famous Greek traveler, the hero of the Odyssey. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z What I am trying to say - and I do not think this an unfair comment - is that we were a much more idealistic generation. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z What we need is a form of hindsight that does not impose itself arbitrarily on the mentality of the revolutionary generation, does not presume that we are witnessing the birth of an inevitable American superpower. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And the crime rate continued to fall as an entire generation came of age minus the children whose mothers had not wanted to bring a child into the world. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was surrounded by several generations of relatives, all of whom welcomed us enthusiastically. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She wanted the record to be set straight so that William would be remembered for generations to come. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Indeed a generation later one might hear an old gaffer in an inn, after a good pint of well-earned ale, put down his mug with a sigh: ‘Ah! that was proper fourteen-twenty, that was!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Before Newton, generations of physicists had thought about phenomena such as force, acceleration, mass, and velocity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It did not seem like today; a generation had risen and declined since he had talked to her last. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Like Washington, he saw Jay’s Treaty as a shrewd if bittersweet bargain designed to postpone war with England for perhaps a generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So this was the soil out of which, a generation later, Lincoln’s rhetoric was to grow. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z This duty is to be passed down through generations, with each new Key Holder honor bound to never reveal themselves. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A generation of children grew up who knew no more of violence than picking flowers and tumbling on the sands. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Irina Rakobolskaya, who grew up in the “generation not from this universe,” was twenty years old and in her third year as a physics student at Moscow University when the Great Patriotic War broke out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Aristotle, two generations later, was content to argue that those things happened because it was the nature of the Moon to have phases and eclipses—mere verbal juggling, an explanation that explains nothing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And our readings were guided by the teachings of Tradition—the continuous interpretation of the Word passing through generations of Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In each location the reunion drew large crowds, in which witnesses claimed they saw two ghosts from a bygone era materializing one final time for the benefit of the present generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Not now, at least I don’t think so. Our principal is very good at explaining curriculum. Every generation has new things to learn.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He terrorized the seas around the poor island, pillaging coastal cities and extorting others, attacking traders and supply ships bringing aid to a kingdom that hadn’t had a king in generations. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The essential preliminary to a supernova explosion is the generation by silicon fusion of a massive iron core. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The stories of the black strikebreakers died with the men who lived them, never recorded for future generations. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were four stories, one for each generation: great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, and children. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The fact that most older Hungarians knew Russian, and that many also had a command of German, while most of the younger generation could speak English, helped Bobby in communicating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Ten generations of his heirs or more could live on what lay piled in that great room. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the son of the legendary actor Junius Brutus Booth and brother to Edwin Booth, one of the finest actors of his generation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And so his sons would do after him, and his sons’ sons, to the final generation. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z As the generations pass, they grow worse; sons are always inferior to their fathers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom says she’s jealous that all the artistic talent skipped her generation and manifested in me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Partly because it took generations for the small changes to accumulate and transform society and, by then, nobody remembered that they had ever lived differently. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew, as everyone knows, the true but incomplete statement of the problem—that an original sin of the fathers was being visited on the children of succeeding generations. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, in recent generations, foragers have been increasingly subject to the authority of modern states, which prevent the eruption of large-scale conflicts. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jackson did not go so far as to argue, as did southern apologists two or three generations later, that slavery was “a positive good.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Their commitment to their faith is confounding a long-held assumption that, like earlier generations of Baptists or Pentecostals, prosperous evangelicals would abandon their religious ties or trade them for membership in establishment churches. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When that organism generated sperm or eggs, the alleles were split up again—one was passed to the sperm, and one to the egg, only to become combined in the next generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She is feminine in her movements and gestures, and the slight gracelessness of her walk is in keeping with females of her generation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Why else did I give you my ndoro/’ Sometimes I think the intelligence of people gets less every generation. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Her mother, Ann, was a Powell, another educated, upwardly mobile colored family—and the same Powells who would two generations later produce Colin Powell. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They do not buy for the generations, but only until a new model they can afford comes out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It is my fondest hope that a new generation of witches and wizards will find in its pages fresh reason to love and protect the incredible beasts with whom we share magic. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was growing old; he was an old broken man; and she would be young for generations. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He was one generation removed from a slave ship, living in a country best described as an African penal colony, and he was a free man, with every benefit of education. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Everyone knew that the family who owned the sugar mill were eccentric “Arabs,” Haitians of Lebanese or Palestinian descent whose family had been in the country for generations. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic that would continue to prove successful for generations to come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Thirty years later a new generation of researchers put together a different theory of Native American origins that gained general agreement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Like most uglies, Tally had often indulged the fantasy that one day she might be on the Committee, and help decide what the next generation would look like. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I need at least two generations, not counting me,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z It occurred to Comrade Pillai that this generation was perhaps paying for its forefathers’ bourgeois decadence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Disturbing hair and eyes, a smile like no other, threatened the ideal of five generations living under one roof. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We must be mindful of the present and coming generations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Handel, though, not only represented a musical amalgam of European styles during his lifetime; he also bequeathed to the next generation of composers a non-parochial, universal idiom that was venerated and built upon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But one key difference is that a PET scan lets researchers look at various neurotransmitters, and cellular activity—a power unimaginable just a few generations ago. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Each generation puts the bite on the next, turning them into the living dead.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But how could she close the diner that had been in Dad’s family for generations? I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Resistance, therefore, is something that develops in a population after time measured in several or many generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then Amit and I would become a Bengali couple in an arranged marriage, playing the same roles as our parents and grandparents and Das and Sen family ancestors have for generations. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s the story of a generation of young people who learned to work with the wind—those who soared and those who came back to earth. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z FAMILY: The girl’s parents are fairly typical Mid- westerners of the World War II generation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Doc Savage to whom he referred was a fictional hero popular among adolescent readers of pulp magazines a generation ago. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Improved blood will better every generation to come. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He had been shaving in mid-week, for Billy held Grandfather in reverence, and Grandfather said that Billy was one of the few men of the new generation who had not gone soft. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Nico knew Octavian was a legacy - a descendant of Apollo many generations removed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He thought about those stories his mother used to tell— generations of heroes who had battled Hercules, fought dragons, and sailed monster-infested seas. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “We haven’t gotten to test the genes of someone in such a late generation of the experiment before, and you and Tobias seem to be somewhat . . . odd, in your manifestations of certain things.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In fact the British boys still rowed with the long layback that English prep schools and universities had taught for generations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Her kids are the next generation, and she had the courage and awareness to change and say: ‘My kids will not go through what I went through.’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In other matters they were, as a rule, generous and not greedy, but contented and moderate, so that estates, farms, workshops, and small trades tended to remain unchanged for generations. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z You see, the silent and boomer generations are old now. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I believe I can best highlight the difference between the generations by expressing myself figuratively. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Two people born in the social media generation who, despite being labeled as shallow and vain, are actually super self-conscious and would rather hide behind avatars than reveal themselves.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Like Mendel, Morgan began by identifying heritable traits—visible variants that he could track over generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We, more than any previous generation, can readily identify with Bach's request. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And she noticed, early on, that it was Okeoma’s opinions that Odenigbo most respected, saying “The voice of our generation!” as though he truly believed it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And Tar licking Marcus’s face on the beach, and Billy burying his brother, and the theatre in London, and the painting of the angel on the ceiling, and the generations that followed . The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The related expression I feel badly may have started out in previous generations as a hypercorrected version of I feel bad. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn’t bypass you, Laila. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Having been immersed in the development of the atom’s destructive potential, they were hoping to shift as a team into work on the generation of electricity and other such peacetime aspects of the embryonic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “We all know stories of poor families in which the next generation did much better,” said Gary Solon, a University of Michigan economist who is a leading mobility researcher. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When the community of Boston was shattered by the most sensational murder trial of his generation, Paul Revere was chosen foreman of the jury. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We planned to launch a foundation as well, one whose mission would be to encourage and embolden a new generation of leaders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z No other generation of criminals had ever been presented with such an enormous opportunity to make so much money or to gain so much status among other criminals. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Principalities are either hereditary, in which instance the family of the prince has ruled for generations, or they are new. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z For the alchemists, the reality of the philosopher’s stone was beyond question; within a generation their appeal to authority, to ancient texts and secret manuscripts, seemed hopelessly misplaced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thank you for building bridges between people and generations. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa says there will be a generation of children completely missing from our country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For generations, while his people were preparing to go to university, my people were crowded into thatched huts singing, “Two times two is four. Three times two is six. La la la la la.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Had the birds been blown over from the coast of South America and then diverged as they lived and died. generation after generation, on the islands? he wondered. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas no one else in the revolutionary generation wanted the role of Catiline, Burr seemed to be auditioning for the part at every opportunity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This new generation of neuroscientists isn’t antitechnology, despite their cautionary findings. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z You are a transitional generation, said Aunt Lydia. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The Appalachians alone lost four billion trees, a quarter of its cover, in a generation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Our Solar System is certainly a prerequisite for our existence, and one might extend this to the whole of our galaxy to allow for an earlier generation of stars that created the heavier elements. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A person’s indentured status did not pass to later generations, but children born to an enslaved person would also be enslaved. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In 2007, the University of Wisconsin conferred doctorates on 13 women who showed their determination, strength, and bravery in the Space Race with accomplishments that paved the way for generations. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Older generations of pretties lived out in the suburbs, hidden by the hills, in rows of big houses separated by strips of private garden for their littlies to play in. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The boy recited with a thrilling clarity, and a jarring touch of what my generation would call Cockney, though I have no idea these days what the significance is of a glottal t. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I could use my personal experiences as an athlete to train and inspire this younger generation, truly making a difference in their lives, including in the life of my sister Faizah. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z When You were displeased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the Flood. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The previous generation of Belles stands up onstage. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Pascal says, indeed, that each generation sees further than the one before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Without ever saying so directly, they were talking about themselves and the other prominent members of the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The house had been in the family for many generations. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In short, he thought him nearly a god, as did many of his generation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For generations his ancestors had been bred to retrieve without harming, and there was nothing of the hunter in his make-up; as yet, any killing was abhorrent to him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Used to be one generation, now it’s two, three generations a year. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Few researchers today accept Dobyns’s estimates—they seem extreme—but most believe that native numbers were far higher than estimated by previous generations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The culture and generation gap that separated us was too immense to navigate. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Mocked for generations if we cannot avenge our sons’ blood, and our brothers’! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Korean families that have lived in Japan for several generations still find it difficult to acquire Japanese citizenship. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why would there be a “natural” generation between us and our models? Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “But, Lord,” I asked, “how can we repair the church and make it better for future generations if we have no money?” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The puppy at the Palace was growing like a pole bean, and having a thousand generations of training behind her, she began to train herself. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At noon, the officers of the Eighth were photographed, preserving for future generations a record of the part to be played by blacks in the great battle ahead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He also said that he did not know how, exactly, traits were passed down through the generations. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One critic praised “Miss Anderson’s power to move her listeners as can no other singer of her generation.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z My southern grandfather missed slavery by one generation. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Then he spoke a final prophecy: “Yours will be a generation of black hair.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Their world—their culture and generation and family history—gave them the greatest of opportunities. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The younger generation of my tribe, meanwhile, totally cheered me on. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z For a generation after the Civil War, the Delaware Water Gap was the place to be in summer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z To his great relief, Galton found that his law could accurately predict the coat colors of every generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That was the way her generation thought—simply part of the culture. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z So the story of the girl who had defeated their tormentor was passed from one to another in languages that had gone generations without once uttering the word human. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For an apple pie that can last for generations, you need the printing press and the Industrial Revolution and maybe even a poem. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z European horses were eagerly adopted by Native Americans in both North and South America, within a generation of the escape of horses from European settlements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It appeared that Goedart still believed that many caterpillars arose from spontaneous generation. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A generation of young biologists was now rifling through Darwin’s works to find clues to the theory that had gone missing. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I recognize it instantly as the current generation of Warcross glasses that are being sold in stores—much more powerful than the old rentals I’ve been using up until now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We are a generation not from this universe,” she said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Mary gave one to each of her daughters on their wedding day with instructions that the crosses were to be passed on to the first daughter in each succeeding generation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And these particles were passed along, intact, to the next generation through sperm and egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Even the most gifted of lawyers, equipped with the best of family lessons, cannot escape the limitations of their generation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Looking back on life, wrote Jefferson, was “like looking over a field of battle. All, all dead: and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know not us.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Only a few relatives knew that two generations before, the name had been Doufinakas, but his Greek ancestor George, as far as Dell was concerned, had done the right thing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He despised the trivialization of higher education, the inflated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half education that so often passed as mass education in my generation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Yevgeniya, Stalin warned Marina, “You understand, future generations will not forgive us for sacrificing young girls.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "My husband forgot to introduce another new member to court this season. Our new favorite Belle of this generation, Camellia Beauregard." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The Nolan men grew handsomer, weaker and more beguiling with each generation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Some economists consider the findings of the new studies murky; it cannot be definitively shown that mobility has fallen during the last generation, they say, only that it has not risen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They called out their own names, women’s pretty names, haphazard names, horizontal names of one generation. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Children’s repertoires include countless game-songs and rhymes for play, jump rope, etc., that have been passed down and modified for generations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The pages make a lovely crackling sound as I study the treatment price list from her generation. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “It will be the next generation, the ones like our children, who were born here, who won’t feel that pull.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Applied to seeds, either by soaking or in a coating combined with carbon, they extend their effects into the following plant generation and produce seedlings poisonous to aphids and other sucking insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With the passing of generations, the two species co-evolved to communicate well with each other. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They only looked different on holidays, when girls decorated their family’s paths and thresholds with painted patterns called alpanas, just as their ancestors had done for generations. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z An angel appeared to him, and told him that the words of one of his sons would be learned and repeated throughout the world for all generations to come. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A gift from the greatest generation—the guys who saved the world! 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Saxe was one of a new generation of CIA operatives who pushed hard to get more aggressive in recruiting Soviet informers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We’d fled there many generations before from the highlands of southern Congo during a time of great war and sickness, and settled where the soil was reddish black and fertile as the days were long. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z PIH works closely with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and through their collaborative initiatives, a new generation of doctors and health specialists have chosen careers centered on infectious diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z While he is a generation younger than my father, both he and his elder brother Max always symbolized a genuine and authentic continuity throughout the struggle. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Supreme Court ordered Duke to carve up his tobacco octopus, but the resourceful businessman had already diversified into textiles and electric power generation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z To which he replied what many Americans of his generation would have: “It’s science, Ma.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Costly mistakes, like sexual confusion and nuclear weapons, which by the way are both legacies passed down from the greatest generation—the guys who whipped Hitler—are strongly related to extinction. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The hall was also where they had gym classes, and underneath the food smell there was an aromatic reminder of several generations of sweaty children. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A mutation is a change in a nucleotide, copied in the next generation, which breeds true. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z August read Mary’s words from the Bible: “ ‘For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed—’” “Blessed Mary,” Violet interrupted. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The generation of an RNA copy of a gene was termed transcription—referring to the rewriting of a word or sentence in a language close to the original. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was a thing of the wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton’s fire, rather than a dog of the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z It took us through Spring Valley, and I gazed out the window at the fields and houses of the place I was saying goodbye to—my home, and my family’s home for generations. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Sorry, Hemingway, but this old guy murdered some of your best chops for a generation of students. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The citizens of Anielle were warriors from birth, and had been guardians against the hordes of the wild men from the White Fang Mountains for generations. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It opened the doors for the younger generation. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z "Sometimes I'm not sure I understand this new generation." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I won’t go so she can talk to me as if I’m a beggar looking at her generations, when she knows I hunger for my own. No. I won’t go sit in her mother’s house.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It also quickly became the battle cry of a new generation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Miss Trotter said, “She’s the one who must come this way and beg my pardon. She has to walk to my home and wipe clean that hex she put over my generations.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z A Jeep and two Japanese cars say some of the younger generation are also here. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z One hundred years after Alice Paul offered her warning to American women, there is no question her words were taken seriously by generations of women who followed her. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over a question that most of us would consider to have been settled years ago. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mother then made a remark about how Western Civilization was in a decline because people of my generation knew how to nitpick but not how to write a B & B letter. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z We have no stable food culture to guide us, handed down over generations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Instead, they were passed down from generation to generation by the older relatives who whispered or spoke them to me time and again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Though we drank a fair amount of burgundy, the conversation never got animated and I felt that Pauling would rather talk to me, clearly an unfinished member of the younger generation, than to Francis. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z All of the energy will move to this next generation of life. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z That if they fell into the wrong hands, it could be the undoing of a plan that had taken generations to put in place. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He yielded to the Army because the old wickedness in generation after generation of his race was bound to work out in evil for him too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to heal a family, the next generation, or society, she argues, “It’s vital to make the connecting thread between the past and the present.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was helpful for the generation of the theoretical models which explained air pressure and the vacuum, even if those models were unacceptable to Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “My blood goes back fifty generations, older than tree or stone. And I am come to this,” he put his head against the palms of his hands and looked down at his tin tray. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Now he was coming to the generation in which he might expect to find his own mother. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It is something to do with the younger generation contradicting the efforts of their elders, the perennial parent-child dynamic of human civilisation: ‘whatever they did, we will do the opposite.’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The music started playing, but it was the song of a different generation, of a different country. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z This monumental new piece announced to the next generation of composers that the symphony was now to have an epic dimension. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z For some, particularly among the older generations, this was an unwelcome transformation. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z They need to learn a few things first before they start making so many remarks about the younger generation! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Your grandmother was of an archaic generation, not so open-minded as you are, Sierra Santiago. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Still, several generations of tenant farmers had grown corn and other grains there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z However, fearing the same outcome that had kept Egypt independent for generations, Octavian did not appoint a Roman governor. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z When I say this, I am not merely drawing attention to the fact that our generation had a less snobbish attitude as regards which employers were landed gentry and which were 'business.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Today, in Iran's urban areas, the great majority of the younger generation tend to meet their significant others on their own. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z My generation had never known a world without the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It helped create the format of the modern civil rights demonstration, and it established the Lincoln Memorial as moral high ground for generations of protesters. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Fate had arranged, I concluded, that an example of a major evolutionary change in a single generation, the very thing Muller had said could never happen, should take place in his own laboratory. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those in the emigrant generations who could not reassert brute survival died young and far from home. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the quarry tunnels were natural, they had obviously been the lairs of generations of serpents; most of the signs were of a reptilian nature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Guys, remember at the Wolf House? Our favorite ice princess, Khione? She talked about spilling Jason’s blood, how it would taint the place for generations. Maybe demigod blood has some kind of power.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What I mean is that we were ambitious, in a way that would have been unusual a generation before, to serve gentlemen who were, so to speak, furthering the progress of humanity. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z This was our bid for permanence: a rising generation that understood what was possible—and that even more was possible for them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A generation later, as wheat plants multiplied and spread, the harvest camp might have lasted for five weeks, then six, and finally it became a permanent village. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The flies were fed, cleaned, and watered in that enclosed space for generation upon generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In some of these areas, Africans had owned their own homes for several generations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An evangelical from what he calls a “solidly middle class” family in the Midwest, he would have been an anomaly at Brown a couple of generations ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Freaking. Is that Hindi or Tamil or what? Did your grandmother teach you that? Was it part of your family’s Ohmigod-totally-awesome-popadam recipe handed down through the generations?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I was haunted by the shadow of my father s generation, by Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Later generations of Romans would quip that what the Barbarians had failed to destroy, the Barberinis stole. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But a new generation of young Coloureds, which saw itself as more black than white, was emerging, and it embraced the entire range of black aspirations. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Stories about her would be handed down from one generation to the next, embroidered, embellished, until it would be impossible to say which part was truth, which part was fiction. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Segregated pools kept generations of inner-city kids from swimming,” adds Coach. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And so quick were my thoughts, that I saw myself despised by unborn generations,—Estella’s children, and their children,—while the wretch’s words were yet on his lips. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z We embarked on our cosmic voyage with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each generation asked anew with undiminished wonder: What are the stars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Improved environment and education may better the generation already born. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Develop a list of characteristics that make children’s songs so popular, unforgettable, and able to survive for generations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “His name, like Manny’s, was Emmanuel Julian Rivers. It’s been passed to the eldest male for two generations now. We want you to have it.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z That genes could also be reproduced, recombined between chromosomes, and repaired by specific proteins, explained how cells and organisms manage to conserve, copy, and reshuffle genetic information across generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It’s a crime, the lie that has been told to generations of black men and white men both. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His two children had grown tall and confident, vibrant advertisements for what the next generation could do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In that interval of nearly two years, successive crops of plankton had flowered and faded away, but the poison, although no longer present in the water, had somehow passed from generation to generation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I think with each generation the house had grown smaller inside, more crowded. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z With each passing generation, the sheep became fatter, more submissive and less curious. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A generation later these silly, ignorant ladies would be long dead and still revered at High Table and spoken of in lowered voices. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, sir. I don’t understand exactly. Maybe I’m not smart enough. I don’t know what you mean when you say ‘the whole world’ or ‘generations before him.’ The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “So the Lewis women have been inflicting that meatloaf on their families for four generations?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But they are not completely unequipped—they also have the history of determined, improvisational survival, a legacy of generations who fought through even more oppressive circumstances. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The Van Goghs have been getting weaker from generation to generation, Vincent says. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I hear a calm, feminine voice: “Beatrice Prior, second generation. Faction of origin: Abnegation. Selected faction: Dauntless. Confirmed Divergent.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It centered on one goal—ending the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I found nearly three million Americans had served “in country,” almost 10 percent of their generation. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They eat by and large as they have for generations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Of course, I am now speaking in broad generalizations and I would readily admit there were all too many persons of our generation who had no patience for such finer considerations. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “And in her delirium she talked about things that she’d never talked about before. She shed tears over her friends dying in the 1918 flu epidemic. That generation—my parents’ generation—lived through a lot. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But a person who crossed the black water lost all caste; he was stripped of the connections that had defined him and his family for generations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z To me, the young people managing our field offices represented the promise of the coming generation of leaders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We have our portraits painted and talk to our big sisters—the previous generation of Belles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "That there hang not only my generations wasting upon the water —" And now the pain welled up and I could no longer see them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But people like Marina show the rising generations that it is possible to make a difference—and that it is worth it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But fortunately they have not considered it their duty to stay married, as the Bengalis of Ashoke and Ashima’s generation do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, it must be remembered that my father was a butler of an earlier generation who began his career at a time when such attributes were not considered proper, let alone desirable in a butler. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She brought me clean rags and explained how generation occurs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And yet to the people of only two generations ago, this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Some recent studies suggest that it has declined over the last generation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But for countless generations they did not stand out from the myriad other organisms with which they shared their habitats. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus he established an alternative to spontaneous generation—the notion that life could rise, in fermenting grape juice or rotting meat, entirely independent of preexisting life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On August 21, 1975, he notes, “Shakespeare’s text is always absurdly over-punctuated; generations of scholars have tried to turn him into a good grammarian.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “For generations the merchants here created beautiful handcrafted paper.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z This meant that passengers and crew were trapped on board with successive generations of diseased insects. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She did know that for many generations on her mother’s side, every first child who was a girl had been named Petra. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Within a few generations, the Martials were ready. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There was such a scarcity of high land on Rass that for generations we had buried our dead in our front yards. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She pointed her finger at me and said, “She wiped out every sprig of my generations—she hates me so. Wiped out each one but JimmyTrotter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I told Morrie about my generation’s dilemma with having children, how we often saw them as tying us down, making us into these “parent” things that we did not want to be. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This old pathogenic role, which has been taught to all the medical and veterinary generations of our time, is quite true. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Jenkin’s central problem with Darwin was this: if hereditary traits kept “blending” with each other in every generation, then what would keep any variation from being diluted out immediately by interbreeding? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When there was a novel approach in the classroom, it was geared for a generation indisputably weaned on the fast foods of television and the VCR, not the written word. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It strikes me that the silent generation is my grandparents, and the idea of losing them causes a painful twisting in my heart. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z ‘We are lucky men,’ he murmured, ‘for we have a cause worth dying for. This honor is not given to every generation.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried gallantly to produce a generation of Darwins who could spell, unlike their famous father. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z You know how these things can resurface after generations . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The Took family was still, indeed, accorded a special respect, for it remained both numerous and exceedingly wealthy, and was liable to produce in every generation strong characters of peculiar habits and even adventurous temperament. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The feud had been fought in forays and ambushes for three generations, and there was no settling it, for it was a dispute over land. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Academics would have violated their generation’s ideal of openness if they had said that their schools couldn’t accommodate disadvantaged Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was the victim and the victor,” he asserted, much as generations of American plunderers had asserted before. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In some of these third-generation crosses, shortness reappeared—perfectly intact—after having disappeared for a generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The woman was older, with gray hair; my mother’s generation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yours is a generation of headphones,” Mr. Jacobs said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Slowly, over generations, you’d keep trying to get to the point where you had a home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In effect, the leadership of the revolutionary generation lacked a vocabulary adequate to describe the politics they were inventing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Our slowest defensive response is through natural selection, which changes our gene frequencies from generation to generation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The growing economic power of the South has helped lift evangelical Christians into the middle and upper middle classes, just as earlier generations of Roman Catholics moved up in the mid-twentieth century. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And each time they succeed, they get rid of five to seven generations. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In every generation, the bravest satyrs pledge their lives to finding Pan. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z For it was Bantu Education that produced in the 1970s the angriest, most rebellious generation of black youth the country had ever seen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z According to a survey by Perales, 85 percent of the farmers plant the same maize landraces as their fathers, varieties that have been passed on and maintained for generations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The cable contained the results of the initial interview conducted by David Shorer with the most important KGB defector in a generation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And to begin the work of restructuring American schools—barely changed in generations despite the ongoing Information Revolution—and their frequently warped structures, procedures, and value systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to repeat the same mistakes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The old adage applies: Men make history, and the leading members of the revolutionary generation realized they were doing so, but they can never know the history they are making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “In nature there is no generation,” the Dutch scientist Jan Swammerdam wrote in 1669, “but only propagation.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They are the generation of working-class kids entering adulthood with heavy encumbrances. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z She’s never even uttered the word, but she’s covered all the bases regarding ablution, hair removal, and the power of kajal—the sooty black eyeliner favored by generations of South Asian women. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Mrs., who was what Big Ma called a “now generation” woman, didn’t put up a protest. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z In not much more than a generation they have come back to class. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The present generation of particle accelerators can collide particles at energies of about one hundred GeV, and machines are planned that would raise this to a few thousand GeV. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dignity I wanted to make an appeal for—the idea that as a nation we might hold on to the core thing that had sustained my family, going back generations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I have to wear a frock belonging to her mum—outmoded and severe, a thing no self-respecting girl of my generation would be caught dead in. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Giving in to melancholy is not conducive to the generation of energy.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His parents believed in the dignity of the honest trades, envisioning the generations of their family branching into the future, each more accomplished than the last. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There were only a dangerous forest and a single road and a thin grip on a life that the Elders had enjoyed for generations. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z With four generations per century, twenty-three centuries occupies almost a hundred generations of human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “These are the three older generations,” Mrs. Medina continues. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z There are so many generations of Attorney General Richards and Federal Judge Richards, they’d be able to bury anything. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He wasn’t alone among his generation in this. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He has the documentation to prove it for six generations. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z But as Darbishire analyzed his own first-generation hybrids, and the hybrid-hybrid crosses, the pattern was clear: the data could only be explained by Mendelian inheritance, with indivisible traits moving vertically across the generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One of these young men was Cyril Ramaphosa, the general secretary of the National Union of Mine Workers and one of the ablest of the new generation of leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, all of evolution could be perceived as the vertical transfer of germplasm from one generation to the next: an egg was the only way for a chicken to transfer information to another chicken. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is the common fate of our generation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not interested in the next generation, dear. I’m interested in us.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The idea that America was really Asia died within a generation, while the alchemists’ project was much more resilient. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was thoughtful and intelligent and quite possibly the voice of an entire generation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Niran, like his father and grandfather before him, was a blacksmith, and his family’s home had been built adjacent to the smithy over the course of many generations. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing from my baby boomer generation. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I quickly saw that they were, like many of their generation, kinder than the older ones. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Some recent studies suggest it has even declined over the last generation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It filled my heart to know that my story provided hope, and it confirmed my belief that there weren’t enough people like me in the public view for younger generations to find inspiration in. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Powers that defied explanation, mental talents so freakish, doctors and scientists reclassified our entire generation as Psi. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z My entire generation would come to know every second of Halliday’s message by heart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z From then on, for a period of at least two generations, philosophers had a hard time in that country. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My ancestors had lived there for generations; in fact, for more than two hundred years. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Inside it there are long hallways with hardwood floors, stained and worn from generations of students in slushy winter boots, but still kept polished. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The folk music of a culture is the music that is passed down from one generation to the next, often without writing it down. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Joseph never imagined his attraction to fire could be genetic, something that reached back through the generations. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z As an adult, I wanted to pass those words to a new generation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In Dwelholm, various elfin noblemen claimed that they had a drop of King Degravaunt’s blood running through their blue veins from fifteen generations back. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I wander around the living room, looking at photos of generations of women who all look like Carla. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She told the servants to take all sharp things out of the room, thinking scissors and knives were cutting off her next generation. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not, if the new generation of researchers is correct. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Master Cyclops, do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to our expectations. But you, Tyson—your name shall live among the Cyclopes for generations. And Miss Rachel Dare . ..” Rachel flinched when he said her name. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Elizabeth Cady Stanton had predicted that the next generation of suffragists would not display “the infinite patience we have for a half a century.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Conversely, I am sure there were many of my father's generation who recognized instinctively this 'moral' dimension to their work. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Despite generations of effort, this proved illusory, because dip and deviation change unpredictably over time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From the experience of southern blacks, a generation of Americans came to realize with new force that there are forms of oppression that touch all levels of a society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had always assumed they were our generation’s version of a fairy tale. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z For generations they had skirmished on the wrong side of the law, hoarding enough funds to become legitimate. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Human populations reproduce at the rate of roughly three generations per century, but new insect generations arise in a matter of days or weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These are the parents of the new generation, which, by simple inheritance, possesses all the qualities of “toughness” inherent in its forebears. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Way I see it, jus’ as long as ’em Tanners keeps pumping out a healthy baby or two every generation, and don’t have another long run of mo-rons, I’m in high cotton.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “Can you imagine that? Five generations of sea captains in her blood, and she won’t marry a sailor!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Tang men had been wearing their hair in that way for over eight generations, so for Grandfather, having a queue was part of being a Tang man. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It will be very moving, Joseph Hooper had decided, with the three generations together and one upon his death bed, the eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z No generation has the right to dictate to another what its culture ought to be, or to degrade its choices as stupid and offensive. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This wasn’t just about record-buying preferences, either: being a composer in the twentieth century meant making career- defining choices that simply were not relevant to earlier generations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She has the distinction of being the first female born into the Corcoran clan for no one even knows how many generations. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure if it was just that heavy, or if generations of accumulated moisture and dust had somehow fused it to the floor. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Studies on mobility over generations are notoriously difficult, because they require researchers to match the earnings records of parents with those of their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The nickname began generations ago, but each generation took on the mantle of justifying it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z That would qualify it to receive federal funds so it would remain strong, stable, and safe for future generations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z His chief charge, though, was designing the next generation of rockets. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The rear garden was a tangled jungle in which every type of plant and flower had proliferated and where Clara’s birds kept up a steady din, along with many generations of cats and dogs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The concept of a safe rate of radiation,” the study declared starkly, “simply does not make sense if one is concerned with genetic damage to future generations.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They came every few generations, babies who were sick in some way, Desdemona couldn’t remember how exactly— her mother had been vague. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Exercise was unusual for African men of my age and generation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Laurie, who went by Ran, was perhaps the best British stroke of his generation—188 pounds of power, grace, and keen intelligence. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Our family has been in Yazd for many years. Many generations, born and raised here. And then put here when they died.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a patina, as though from the soles of bare feet in generations, like old silver or the walls of Mexican houses which have been plastered by hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His grandchildren would inherit a quarter; his great-grandchildren, an eighth; his great-great-grandchildren, one-sixteenth, and so forth—until his genetic essence had been diluted, in just a few generations, into complete oblivion. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He would probably try a shadowshaper he’d be more likely to catch next—someone who wasn’t aware of the danger...Perhaps a new generation of shadowshapers that must be looked into..., Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Then in 1927, a professor of zoology in a Texas university, Dr. H. J. Muller, found that by exposing an organism to X-radiation, he could produce mutations in succeeding generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He gave future generations of scientists “a theory by which to work.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That is the curse of being black and poor, and it is a curse that follows you from generation to generation. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Sophisticated printed illustrations based on perspective drawings thus turned anatomy into a progressive science, where each generation of anatomists was able to identify mistakes and oversights in the work of their predecessors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, we are losing many from the silent generation. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The latter was clearly an error of past generations, which Francis saw no reason to perpetuate. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, the affluence of post-war America - and eventually Europe - saw a generation of carefree teenagers with pocket money to spend, and they wanted to spend it on rock and roll. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The standards upheld by the women of West Computing set a floor for the possibilities of a new generation of girls with a passion for math and hopes for a career beyond teaching. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A generation ago, the skies would have been clear and the road would have been a two-lane highway. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Almost everyone at Manzanar had inherited this pair of traits from the generations before them who had learned to live in a small, crowded country like Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z But selective inbreeding via marriage, Wells argued, might paradoxically produce weaker and duller generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For our generation, I believe it is accurate to say, viewed the world not as a ladder, but more as a wheel. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z No, this tremendous amount of knowledge, collected and preserved by successive generations of wise Brahmins could not be easily overlooked. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The family jokingly said that she was the only normal person for many generations, and it was true she was a miracle of equilibrium and serenity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Aloud, he said, “Our stories haven’t changed in generations, you know. After all, we haven’t changed ourselves. Our lives have been the same as our fathers’ and their fathers’ before them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Their homes were filled with the emblems of honorable life—citizenship awards, portraits of husbands and wives passed away, several generations of children in cap and gown. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In my generation we used to distinguish between decent women and all the rest, and we also divided up the decent ones into our own and others’. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s possible that such qualities were indispensable in the generation that won the war. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Maybe every other generation, the ones he’d never known, had been full of brilliant adventurers and romantic dreamers, like himself. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Our corn, or maize, has been bred for ten thousand generations to be more tasty and nutritious than its scrawny ancestors; indeed, it is so changed that it cannot even reproduce without human intervention. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A splendid stalk is raised, with a fruiting body on top, and out of this comes the next generation of amebocytes, ready to swim across the same moist ground, solitary and ambitious. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the chaos of the world I grew up in, those were as appealing to me as Malcolm’s cry for revolution was to his generation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z For four generations of men all ships had set their course to keep far from the shores of Pendor Island. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I have numerous Iranian friends who have the exact same story—it ruined dating for every male Iranian of my generation.” Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And the stewards have governed the city since that day, though it was many generations of Men ago. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z If they were to be believed, any fairies who still walked this land were most likely to be found deep in the Wood, where no one had traveled for generations. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For the generations that come after, Aunt Lydia said, it will be so much better. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it had been an old family name, burnished by generations of use. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z That was the signature of my grandmother and the Greek ladies of her generation: the kindliness of their despair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “This cabin’s been in my family for generations,” he said. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z By problematizing the idea that experiments could be successfully replicated, the generation after Kuhn, the generation of Shapin and Schaffer, sought to demonstrate that experience itself is unpredictable, malleable, socially constructed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “And you know, younger black folk don’t really do code switching anymore. The middle-class kids can’t speak Ebonics and the inner-city kids speak only Ebonics and they don’t have the fluidity that my generation has.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If a finch lived for only two years, how could it pass along the idea of something it had never seen to the next generation? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He and his family had lived in South Alabama for generations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Their interest helped a new generation of indigenous artists to explore new themes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a neighborhood peopled by fifth and sixth generation Americans, whereas in the Nolan neighborhood, if you could prove you had been born in America, it was equivalent to a Mayflower standing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Emily tried to imagine that—year after year in one house, one neighborhood, one school, with memories that went back for generations. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There weren’t many of these women, but they paved the way for Marina Raskova and for the next generation—the generation that would fight in World War II twenty-five years later. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Tom White’s son had also joined the bureau, making three generations of White lawmen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Koffi, and every other child of her generation, had suffered the consequences of that madness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Supernova explosions of massive early stars produced successive overlapping shock waves in the adjacent gas, compressing the intergalactic medium and accelerating the generation of clusters of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The hate stare was everywhere practiced, especially by women of the older generation. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When I gave him the tape, he asked if it was a first generation copy—meaning if this was a copy from the original tape or a copy of a copy. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered how many generations of our family had been rocked in that chair. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I realized how many men had died because those pages had been stamped top secret and because generations of bureaucrats like me kept them secret,” Ellsberg said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Madison possessed the subtlest and most intellectually sophisticated understanding of the choices facing the new American republic of any member of the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Three generations of imbeciles is enough,” he wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I mean the older generations. This family”—she solemnly indicated the grave of my baby brother—“has started bein’ buried here.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “She’s pretty mad at both of us. She agreed that Granddad was from a different generation, but she also said that I can’t call people names every time I get mad at them.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The process of vertical movement known as isostasy, was a foundation of geological beliefs for generations, though no one had any good theories as to how or why it happened. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I remember retorting, “Maybe the People are always those who used to live the generation before last.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I was among white and Indian intellectuals of my own generation, young men who would form the vanguard of the most important political movements of the next few years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Any man, any woman, or any child is good for five to seven generations of heirs before they’re bred out. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But one cannot say these things to an older generation. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He was as old as my father but in league with the younger generation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Freaks would always remain freaks—unless they could guarantee the passage of their traits to the next generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The overall musical effect is cinematic: shock and awe for a fin de siecle generation seeking thrills and spills galore. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There are two great identical snakes on a Levantine libation vase of around 2000 B.C., coiled around each other in a double helix, representing the original generation of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here is the only occasion within the revolutionary generation when political differences ended in violence and death rather than in ongoing argument. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Africans of my generation — and even today — generally have both an English and an African name. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been born into a large, wealthy family, he told us, with five generations, more than a hundred people, living together in one big compound. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This was where generations of Masters had been buried, each in his lead-lined oak coffin in niches along the stone walls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z For years, these same six teachers had seen through their classrooms generations of Coalwood students. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The chief task facing the next several generations was to consolidate control of the North American continent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For the first generation, the new science was all in the mind; for the second, it was simply a language-game. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He doubted whether the republican principles planted by the founding generation would grow in foreign soil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The females are reared to become the next generation of dairy cows, whereas the males are handed over to the care of the meat industry. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But the mice—with equal and obdurate consistency—had been born with tails perfectly intact, generation upon generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mendel, perhaps, was the original “anatomist” of the gene: in capturing the movement of information across generations of peas, he had described the essential structure of the gene as an indivisible corpuscle of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He’s not necessarily my age—there could be 10 years or more between us—but it’s still a sign we’re the same generation. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The tightly knotted issues of housing and race have troubled generations of Americans, black and white, liberal and conservative. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Walker, who was in desperate need of money, had to sell the land which had been in her family for generations. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “It just shows how conventional I was. Everyone in my college generation wanted to go to Paris and write a novel.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The tables made it possible to calculate the positions of the planets to an accuracy thirty times better than the tables Copernicus had compiled, and remained the standard used for generations. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But for his father and others of a generation that could count on a comfortable life without a degree, the fall out of the middle class has come as a shock. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Afterward, Master would clap and say, in his loud voice, “The voice of our generation!” and the clapping would go on until Okeoma said sharply, “That’s enough!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Once in a generation is a mind like that born. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z But a couple of generations later, he is giving those same kind of boys a gift. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Easter was just such a drifting holiday, so every few generations a monk was drafted to calculate the dates when Easter would fall for the next few hundred years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To begin with, some researchers—many but not all from an older generation—deride the new theories as fantasies arising from an almost willful misinterpretation of data and a perverse kind of political correctness. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All the vanguard members of the revolutionary generation developed a keen sense of their historical significance even while they were still making the history on which their reputations would rest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So every death is the death of five to seven generations. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Many had ancient flintlocks, old squirrel guns, handed down for generations. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also demographic forces at work, beginning with the GI Bill, which sent a pioneering generation of evangelicals to college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “It is an ability passed through families by blood, though not always consistently in each generation. Why do you ask?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But the biggest obstacle by far, and the one that separates newly arrived Mexicans from Greeks, Italians, and most other immigrants—including earlier generations of Mexicans—is their illegal status. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He was the first male born into the family in two generations. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The sublunary world, the world this side of the moon, is the world of generation and corruption—the rest of the universe has existed unchanging from all eternity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Theogony is an account of the creation of the universe and the generations of the gods, and it is very important for mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He talks about his “restless generation” and things like that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z When taxpayers understand that the bill for spraying the town roads should come due only once a generation instead of once a year, they will surely rise up and demand a change of method. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There are many more Catholics, Jews, and Mormons in the Senate than there were a generation or two ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Over the next few days, Nathan drafted an experiment that would compare water consumption between Nali’s heirloom kernels that had been passed down to her through many generations and store-bought kernels. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Within the leadership of the revolutionary generation, Washington was, if not unique, at least unusual, for never having traveled or lived in Europe. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I have not heard of them in...many of your generations.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We can only look at the ones that have been recorded, and consider what it must have been like for others in their generation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She turns to her left and motions to the previous generation of Belles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Did you know, son, that I was the best student this school had seen in a generation? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z But three generations of Shaker reverence for order and rules and decorum would stay with Elena, too, and she would never quite be able to bring those two ideas into balance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Weismann had surgically excised the tails of five generations of mice, then bred the mice to determine if the offspring would be born tailless. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You don’t think the first place they’d go is that school, where they can raise up a whole generation of socialist Mormons? I raised you better than that!” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A generation or more ago, the towns of large areas of the United States lined their streets with the noble elm tree. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These cattle were descendants of generations of desert cattle, born in dry sand and scrubby mesquite, where they hunted water the way desert antelope did. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “The Gribleys have had land for three generations. We pioneer, we open the land.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And each generation, of course, owned somebody who had lost an eye to a BB gun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Faith and morality, the watchwords of the previous generation, gave way to the Pleasure Principle. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And he told me, and I have to say, Alaska left us with the crown jewel of pranks, the Mona Lisa of high-school hilarity, the culmination of generations of Culver Creek pranking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The enslaved parrot Methuselah, whose flesh has been devoured now by many generations of predators, is forcing his declaration of independence through the mouths of leopards and civet cats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Actions of any sort in one generation might have incalculable consequences in another, so that merely to sneeze was a pebble thrown into a pond, whose circles might lap the furthest shores. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But once transformed, the bacteria maintained their new coats for several generations—long after any food source would have been exhausted. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I’d explain to them that the real troth was known to some white men, die scholars; but there had been a conspiracy down through the generations to keep the troth from black men. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If she had been born a generation later, or even a half generation, she surely would have gone on to college, but she worked as a secretary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The political dialogue within the highest echelon of the revolutionary generation was a decade-long shouting match. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z From this experience, Alvarez drew the lifelong lesson that “a scientist can stay active as he grows older only by staying in touch with the youngest generation.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Future generations would take the advances for granted, but in the early days the mechanical birds yielded their secrets slowly, pressed by disciplined experimentation, rigorous mathematics, insight, and luck. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And this curiosity about music is something the Classical-era Greeks wanted to instil in younger generations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Margaret's handwriting was the smooth, round style used by the older generation of schoolteachers, which is exactly what Margaret was before she became an elementary school principal, which is what she was before she retired. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z This theory of spontaneous generation had ancient origins and lingered until the early 1700s. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For them, time was measured in seasons, and thought by generations. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If Aristotle had described a current of information moving across generations, then Mendel had found its currency. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Be liberal in your giving, realizing that the future generation must inherit great things, that they might know how close we lived to God. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The imaginary blanket shielded him from the cold as it had protected many generations before him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Going back generation after generation, through revolutions and regime changes, wars and invasions and pogroms. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The two days at Mona's cottage had been a reprieve from cold reality, but now, as they made their way down an overgrown trail that surely hadn’t seen human traffic in generations, that reality returned. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In any other generation on Rass she would have been worshiped for it, flat as it was, but in my day on Rass, everyone had heard Caroline sing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Crows live in extended families, and they pass information across generations. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Grades and test scores, rather than privilege, determine success today, but that success is largely being passed down from one generation to the next. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After a few generations, instead of a mixed population of strong and weak insects, there results a population consisting entirely of tough, resistant strains. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Much ink has been spilled by several generations of scholars in an effort to determine who wrote the bulk of the words that eventually found their way into print and then into the history books. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In many families, she had learned, one dress such as these would be handed down through three generations as a cherished possession. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Within the context of the revolutionary generation, however, giving one’s allegiance to a political party remained illegitimate. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z James had said his family had been living in this building for generations, and you could feel it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I was bursting with pride as people said nice things about my courage and about what we nine were doing for future generations who would be able to attend integrated schools. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That was pretty much his whole generation’s style. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And all men of my age, here and over there, throughout the whole world see these things; all my generation is experiencing these things with me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She belonged to a generation that treated policemen as menials, whatever their rank. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In contrast, ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have been able to change their behaviour quickly, transmitting new behaviours to future generations without any need of genetic or environmental change. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "Remember what happened to Rose Marie? The Belle from the past generation who tried to marry?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z As Paul was growing up, a half generation before Reggie came of age, there was a coming together of these two fundamental computing principles, Moore’s law and Metcalfe’s law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Esteban wanted a son who would bear his name and pass his family name on down the generations. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To our friends and generations of our families. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She and her generation were the first in the history of the world to come of age with the possibility of human extinction as a by-product of human ingenuity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And there he was, face-to-face with the most legendary military mind of his generation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She wasn’t sure she could do this herself, but she was watching how the younger generation pulled it off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I am reminded of Mrs. Medina’s words about how the silent and boomer generations are old now and it is important to record their stories before it’s too late. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The former date was calculated by Seneca historian Paula Underwood, who based her estimate on the tally of generations in oral records. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Together Emma and Charles left a legacy in generations of Darwins. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But still she had lived to be four syllables and had acquired four generations of wisdom. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were large, heavy, ostentatious pieces that were built to last for generations and to withstand country life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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