But nature was cruel. By the nineteen twenties, erosion from winds and weather had removed a large part of the land.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

In the eighteen twenties, in the state of New York, a man named Joseph Smith started the Mormon religion.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

The Negro League teams were started in the nineteen twenties to give black people a place to play baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

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

VOA: special.2009.02.15

He left his wife and family in the nineteen twenties to find work in the American state of California.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

But it was still learning in the nineteen twenties about the leadership and responsibility that is part of such power.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

It was there that young Billie first heard the records of famous black American blues artists of the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

In seventeen sixty, when he was in his middle twenties, Patrick Henry had decided to become a lawyer.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

When he was in his early twenties, Copland went to Paris where he studied music with Nadia Boulanger.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Radio was extremely popular in the United States between the late nineteen twenties and the early nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

The problem was that he was so much a part of the age he described, the "Roaring Twenties."

VOA: special.2010.11.21

The United States also continued in the nineteen twenties to refuse to recognize the communist government in Moscow.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

When she was in her twenties, her father arranged for her to have an operation on her brain to improve her mental condition.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Planning for the bridge began in the nineteen twenties when the area around San Francisco was growing.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

He collected thousands of songs in the nineteen twenties, thirties and forties to save for future generations.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

A Baltimore newspaper first called it that during the nineteen twenties when the manufacture and sale of alcohol were banned for a time.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

His bold black and white designs are influenced by Russian Constructivist art of the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

The nineteen twenties are remembered now as an exciting time that historians call the "Roaring Twenties."

VOA: special.2010.12.30

which mean "help me." Frederick Stanley Mockford created the mayday call signal in the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Most Americans approved strongly of the economic growth and improved living conditions during the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

In the nineteen twenties, American Claude Beck performed the first surgical operations to repair damaged hearts.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

Judge Ninfo says he often sees people in their late twenties seeking bankruptcy protection in court.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

By the middle of the nineteen-twenties, there were two main radio networks in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.31