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Rates of breast cancer in women under the age of 50 are rising in Canada according to a study which showed an increase in breast cancer diagnoses among females in their Twenties, Thirties, and Forties.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

Mickey Travels, with designs based on the early Mickey Mouse short film, “Steamboat Willie,” and comic strips from the Thirties, bows on July 31.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2017

V. S. Pritchett, in a review of “Blindness,” which was available for the first time since 1932, called Green “the most luminous novelist of the Thirties and Forties.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

The two-piece menswear tuxedo that opened the show — diaphanous yet authoritative — set the period: the Katherine Hepburn of the glamorous Thirties.

From US News • Jan. 26, 2015

“Thirty to forty group! Take your places, please. Thirties to forties!”

From "1984" by George Orwell