Quotes About 1949

Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own.

When I first went to London to do a film in 1949, I naturally went to visit the site of the Globe. There was this small plaque on the side of a grimy brewery wall in a derelict alley near the riverfront. I was shocked.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

I'm fascinated by Greta Garbo. My cat's named Greta, and I have a framed photograph of her from 1949.

John Cade's article about the use of lithium in acute mania first appeared in 1949, in an obscure Australian medical journal

Landry returned to school following the war and played fullback and defensive back for the Longhorn squads that won the 1948 Sugar Bowl and, his senior year, the 1949 Orange Bowl.

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.

The Senate and House rejected the proposed integration amendments, and the 1949 Housing Act was adopted, permitting local authorities to continue to design separate public housing projects for blacks and whites or to segregate blacks and whites within projects.

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

In 1949, Claude Lévi-Strauss stated in a key essay that the shaman, far from being mentally ill, was in fact a kind of psychotherapist—the difference being that the psychoanalyst listens, whereas the shaman speaks.

The second time there were four blood moons on Jewish holy days in successive years was in 1949 and 1950. Israel became a nation in one day on May 14, 1948 but was not established as a government until 1949. The third time it happened was in 1967 and 1968. The Jews took full control of the city of Jerusalem in 1967 after the Six Day War. The fourth and last time it happened was in 2014 and 2015. And in those years we also saw a total and a partial solar eclipse on Jewish holy days.

From 1949 onward, any discussion of strike action was considered an "antidemocratic" crime against the state, and workers could be expelled from the party even for suggesting

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period!

In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.

In the years before the Communist revolution of 1949, the US-educated scholars, scientists, and artists in China made up the backbone of the country's scientific and intellectual elite and served as the conscience of their nation.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.

Remarkably, until the passage of the Representation of the People Act of 1949, Britain retained plural voting for graduates of elite universities and business owners.

By 1949 I knew all the studio tricks.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

I've been studying mutual funds since 1949, when I began researching my senior thesis at Princeton University.