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Example sentences for "twentieth century"

  • Let us face the truth that we have two institutions which are back numbers in twentieth century civilization: two left-overs from a past-and-gone domestic system of industry.

  • But although Mr. Masefield is a twentieth century poet, it would be a mistake to suppose that he has originated the doctrine that the poet should speak in a natural voice about natural things, and not cultivate a "diction.

  • He actually admires Blake, who was in spirit a twentieth century poet, and he has written a fine poem On the Death of Francis Thompson, though he has nothing of Thompson in him except religious faith.

  • What Mr. Masters did was to transfer the method and the tone of the Greek Anthology to a twentieth century village in the Middle West, or as he expresses it, to make "an epic rendition of modern life.

  • One of the truly important achievements of the National Government at Nanking was the creation of a core for a twentieth century army.

  • On both sides there was the anxiety to master the mysteries of twentieth century warfare.

  • Nevertheless, the military leaders had sufficient belief in the political value of twentieth century formalities to preserve the appearance of constitutional procedure.

  • In the latter part of the Nineteenth Century and the early Twentieth Century, this industry had the greatest number of employees in the manufacturing field.

  • What a violation of Twentieth Century principles!

  • In pursuance of the precepts in your treatise on Twentieth Century Conduct, and your repeated personal exhortations to us to curtail the number of unnecessary lies we tell, we replied truthfully the we didn't know.

  • For all three: The Booklovers Magazine Cosmopolitan or Leslie's Monthly or Harper's Bazar or American Boy or Pearson's Magazine or Sunset Magazine or Good Housekeeping or Twentieth Century Home or Success 3.

  • Twentieth Century Home in class A: with Success or Pop.

  • Conditions of Twentieth Century Development=] To come back to the question of the general advance of the world during the twentieth century, we find ourselves facing a difficult and varied problem.

  • This is one of the most promising directions that appear before us for the exercise of twentieth century invention.

  • Industry in the Twentieth Century=] There is one farther field of twentieth century progress to be reviewed, the industrial.

  • Their rifles are of a type similar to the magazine rifles of twentieth century Pan-America, but carrying only five cartridges in the magazine, in addition to the one in the chamber.

  • And here was the imperious administration of the Twentieth Century giving me only half a day's halt in this town!

  • The Twentieth Century trusts to the zeal, intelligence, activity and tact of its correspondent, who can draw on its bankers to any extent he may deem necessary.

  • A special correspondent of the Twentieth Century will know how to make it interesting.

  • Chautauqua specialists who have discovered some deflection in the political and social woof and warp declare, amid salutes of fluttering handkerchiefs, the righteousness of twentieth century standards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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