Contemporary

Examples

• Undoubtedly the change was mainly a product of contemporary conditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This was mainly due to Arkwright, a contemporary of Hargreaves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• More scholars are turned out in the City of the Sun in one year than by contemporary methods in ten or fifteen. Plato. The Republic.
• His thought was probably very much at the level of a bright little contemporary boy of four or five. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The sheep and cattle strayed through the fields and corn,' says a contemporary, 'and there were none left who could drive them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The play on his name which was made by his contemporary Herodicus (Aris. Plato. The Republic.
• What does our dastardly contemporary mean? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Blanchard was a contemporary of Hall, and Hall, to perfect his breech-loader, was the first to invent machines for making its various parts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His fellow countryman and contemporary, Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They possessed a system of picture writing almost as developed as the contemporary writing of the Sumerians, but quite different in character. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The problem is to find something for the common man who is not interested in contemporary churches and who can't write sonnets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He had been a contemporary of Metternich and was an old man with white hair and mustache and beautiful manners. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• We state these things here because they are facts, and a living and necessary part of a contemporary survey of human history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The idea of a Promise gave to Judaism a quality no previous or contemporary religion displayed; it made Judaism historical and dramatic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In this was the beginning of the work which has since made such a profound impression on contemporary life. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Watt and his contemporaries regarded heat as a material substance called Phlogiston. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Not much argument was needed to maintain the truth of a theory which to his own contemporaries seemed so natural and congenial. Plato. The Republic.
• What ailed Don Quixote was that he and his contemporaries wanted different things; the only ideals that count are those which express the possible development of an existing force. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The 'Utopia' of Sir Thomas More is a surprising monument of his genius, and shows a reach of thought far beyond his contemporaries. Plato. The Republic.
• He was possessed of absolute KNOWLEDGE far beyond that of his contemporaries. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The whole treatise shows how deeply the idea of the Roman Empire was fixed in the minds of his contemporaries. Plato. The Republic.
• VIII DAVY AND THE SAFETY-LAMP 1778-1829 Humphrey Davy, according to his contemporaries, could have chosen any one of several roads to fame. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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