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Definition of Mid-fifties
1. Noun. The time of life between 50 and 60.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mid-fifties
Literary usage of Mid-fifties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutional Investors in the New Financial Landscape by H. J. Blommestein, Norbert Funke (1998)
"After many years of saving in equities during most of their active life in order
to supplement ailing state pension schemes, workers in their mid-fifties ..."
2. This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics by W. Jackquelyne Klous, Robert I. Tilling (1996)
"Interestingly, Wilson was in his mid- fifties, at the peak of his scientific
career, when he made his insightful contributions to the plate-tectonics theory ..."
3. Arie Hagoort, architectby Arjen Oosterman, Roos Aldershoff by Arjen Oosterman, Roos Aldershoff (1991)
"The Van Embden office underwent this development too, so that by the mid-fifties
it boasted a design team able to work with large-scale concrete ..."
4. Detained in China and Tibet: A Directory of Political and Religious Prisoners by Robin Munro, Mickey Spiegel, Asia Watch Committee (U.S.) (1994)
"... running his own breeding business, was in his mid-fifties when he died.
Arrested shortly after June 4, 1989, Li was accused in mid-1990 of "economic ..."
5. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"... and this subject necessarily took him to Europe for considerable periods.
It was upon one of these European trips (in the mid- fifties) that he made ..."
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