twentieth century

Noun

Meaning

the century from 1901 to 2000

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Examples

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. Norman Mailer

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Gertrude Stein

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. Margaret Mead

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. Adlai Stevenson II

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. E. L. Doctorow

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