It may seem hard to believe, but for two centuries the New York Stock Exchange has operated mostly as a monopoly: all stocks listed on the exchange had to be traded through it.
Until the development of microscopes in the seventeenth century, spontaneous generation was seen mostly as a nonsexual reproductive mechanism of insects, maggots, and what were called "lower animals".
Patch box, small, usually rectangular, sometimes oval box used mostly as a receptacle for beauty patches, especially in the 18th century.
But for nearly a century, it's been uninhabited and uninhabitable, existing mostly as an underwater curiosity.
"I functioned mostly as an editor".
Served mostly as an exploratory tool.
The Temperance movement started in the early 19th century, mostly in the industrial north, as an antidote to the voracious boozing of the day – and, allegedly, to sober up the workforce.
In the 19th century, Washington was mostly viewed as a humid, uninviting town that presidents escaped from when they could.
Even sorghum, a grain now used mostly as fodder, became a delicacy in the nineteenth century.
Otherwise, the store remained mostly as it was a century ago, with the original wooden counters and shelves, the tin ceiling, the Chinese prints above the register and the elaborate wood-carved archway, the kind once common in Chinatown shops.
