21.   Today, after children practice their elementary pieces by Bach and Bartok, they can generally turn only to earlier centuries for intermediate-level works.

22.   Twice in earlier centuries, residents of the Norwegian border town of Halden burned their city to the ground to drive out the Swedes.

23.   Yet as his wish to have lived in an earlier century suggests, he is at heart a conservative.

24.   Many of issues of concern, such as cohabitation, births outside marriage and lone-parent families were as common in earlier centuries as today.

25.   Rep. Lynn Rivers, likened the proposal for vouchers to the medical practice of leeching in earlier centuries, a process in which patients rarely got better.