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Twentieth century   /twˈɛntiəθ sˈɛntʃəri/   Listen
Twentieth century

noun
1.
The century from 1901 to 2000.






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... vacant throne, but soon discovered that Charles V. of Spain had a prior lien to the same, and thus, in 1520, this new potentate became the greatest power in the civilized world. It is hard to believe in the nineteenth or twentieth century that Spain ever had any influence with anybody of sound mind, but such the veracious historian tells us ...
— Comic History of England • Bill Nye

... the world for centuries. Then we may take a long jump and come down to St. Thomas, the great Scholastic of the thirteenth century. To get acquainted with him, we may turn to the English versions by Rickaby, Aquinas Ethicus. Those of us who are smugly satisfied at belonging to the twentieth century must remind ourselves that there were great men in the thirteenth, and that many among our contemporaries are still listening to them. We Protestant teachers of philosophy are sometimes in danger of forgetting this. A strictly ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton

... they don't seem to belong to the twentieth century at all. Their long trunks, their huge shapes, all seem part of the remote past. They are just the remnants of a breed ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various

... definite, physical, genuinely sacrificing shape. The Church must get back to the apostolic times in some particulars and an adaptation of community of goods and a sharing of certain aspects of civilization must mark the church membership of the coming twentieth century. An object lesson in self-denial large enough for men to see, a self-denial that actually gives up luxuries, money, and even pleasures—this is the only kind that will make much impression on the people. I believe if Christ was on earth he would again call for ...
— The Crucifixion of Philip Strong • Charles M. Sheldon

... prophetic vision sees through the mists of time, the aim of the twentieth century is to live ...
— The Cost of Shelter • Ellen H. Richards


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