Riis
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She overlooked what Tom Buk-Swienty, a biographer of Jacob Riis, a 19th-century reformer, has observed: “There was more to the slums than abject poverty. For a large number of immigrants life in the tenements was an improvement over their old lives. They worked, paid rent, fed their children and had hopes and dreams.”
Former Preston striker Emil Riis could be the missing piece of the jigsaw if he can add a few more goals to a team that wasn't prolific last season.
From BBC
The feeling from the fanbase is that the supply line to the forwards could do with supplementing as well as a replacement for the departed Emil Riis.
From BBC
Riis exposed Lower East Side slum conditions in tenement photographs that would form the basis for his renowned book, “How the Other Half Lives.”
From Los Angeles Times
His research experience as a sociologist had led him to the pioneering photographs of Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the New York Tribune.
From Los Angeles Times
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