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There was no lack of demand for the product.

Early modern culture was still deeply imbued with warrior values, some of which (including those concerning women) were intensified by engagement with religious reformation.

The performance was a great success and the showman collected a tidy sum of money.

The notion of longterm ' risk ', as we have seen, was not yet central to public health in the 1950s.

The intention was plainly to frighten the ruler into making his request at once.

In a deeply gendered consumer market, the use of cosmetics was unambiguously coded as womanlike.

A bill based on the weight of the copper (and later zinc), and hence the amount of electricity used, was sent to the household.

The intellectual context of what at this time was considered to be plausible and demonstrable is also significant.

The crucial point was the remedy, financial compensation, or reinstatement.

Republicanism, in the sense of antimonarchism, was a product of accident rather than design.

In the wider context of the decade this was a disturbing threat to a nominally ordered society.

Trustworthiness of the engineers was also paramount in attempts to establish railway locomotives as a safe, reliable, and cheap form of transportation.

Moreover, the death rate was only high amongst the older age groups.

He was forced to take some steps to check it.

In fact, although the discipline he imposed in his factory was a severe one, it was born of a desire to improve his workmen's lot.