His distant cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, began his presidency in nineteen thirty-three and served until his death in nineteen forty-five.

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In the next seven years, between nineteen-twenty-nine and nineteen-thirty-six, he seemed to re-invent the novel with every book he wrote.

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These comedies, with plenty of songs, were a popular form of entertainment in the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties.

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But by the late nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties, those countries no longer had much money to help farmers.

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Between nineteen fifty-three and nineteen fifty-nine she appeared in lead parts in many popular movies: "How To Marry a Millionaire."

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The organization says wildlife strikes have led to the deaths of two hundred nineteen people around the world since nineteen eighty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Cigarette production in the United States more than doubled in the ten years between nineteen eighteen and nineteen twenty-eight.

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In nineteen twenty-one, Mallory was part of the team sent by the British Royal Geographical Society and the British Alpine Club.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Many are about his life growing up in the state of New Jersey, where he was born in nineteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Varroa mites have been causing serious problems in bee colonies in the United States since the late nineteen eighties.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

It began in April of nineteen ninety-four after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus,was shot down.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The band became so popular that in nineteen sixty-six John Lennon said they were more popular than Jesus Christ.

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During the nineteen fifties, the "Top Ten" list mostly included escaped prisoners, suspected murderers or people who stole money from banks.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

In nineteen seventy, James Conaway wrote a crime novel called The Big Easy. The story was set in New Orleans.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Kathleen Foley was named to head Sloan Kettering's new Pain Service within the Department of Neurology in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2009.02.10