It's becoming more common for struggling middle-class people to work two jobs to make ends meet, which means their work weeks are going back up to 19th century lengths.
For three-quarters of this century, the length of skirts dominated fashion news -- until skirts met their match: women's trousers.
In the late 19th century the length of the spot was about 48,000 km (30,000 miles), and since then the spot has been shrinking.
With a straight face, the article describes some of the most ludicrous quackery since the 19th century (finger length as an indicator of sexual orientation?) Its flip comment that taking pills and "tinker[ing] with a gene" will someday allow the medical profession to eliminate homosexuality from society reeks of the days of aversion therapy, electroshock treatment and lobotomies for gay people.
Subsequently in the 17th century two lengths of cloth began to be worn for these purposes, and the kilt and plaid thus came to be separate garments.
Though there is little evidence to suggest that its inhabitants had any buildings to begin with, wattle-and-daub dwellings appeared in due course, and by the 10th century short lengths of coral masonry wall were being built.
We first get a sense of them in a fifth-century bust-length carving of a haloed woman on loan from the Cham Museum in Da Nang.
This is apparent in two fifth-century full-length figures: one has a clean-shaven idealized face, the other a beard and a Danny Kaye profile, but they share a classical poise.
There is truly something for everyone, hearts harking back to the 1950s, brains hard-wired into the 21st century, along the length of this biker's, rambler's, sunbather's, surfer's summer idyll.
The biggest box-office success of the century, judged by length of first run, was the Timocrate (1656) of Pierre Corneille's younger brother Thomas, a prolific playwright adept at gauging the public taste.
