1760s

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Examples of "1760s" in Sentences

Roughly 40 percent of the taverns in Boston during the 1760s were owned by women.
The origins of the four-day royal meeting, or Ascot Week, evolved later in the mid 1760s.
In fact, only three women were prosecuted for prostitution in Philadelphia in the 1760s and 1770s.
In the 1760s even the educated and sophisticated occupied a world bristling with ghosts and omens.
Its interiors, which have changed little since its completion in the 1760s, are one of the best examples of Robert Adam's work.
The peasants-have-no-bread story was in common currency at least since the 1760s as an illustration of the decadence of the aristocracy.
If the British had tried this approach in the 1760s instead of imposing new taxes on the colonies, this debate might be happening in Parliament today instead of Congress.
But then again, Georgetown is home to the second oldest community of Jews in South Carolina with a presence extending back to at least the 1760s, and Fraser's own mother was born a Cohen with rumors of a Jewish ancestor or owner in her past.
See: FLIP-FLOP, SLIPSHOD. bored: Being bored [a term which appeared suddenly, out of nowhere, among the smart set in the 1760s] is the condition — which Guy Debord called the "worst enemy of revolutionary activity" — of being too restless to concentrate, but too apathetic to bust a move.