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Twentieth
Twentieth meaning
The ordinal form of the number twenty.
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For example, nineteenth-century and twentieth-century may be written as nineteenth- and twentieth-century.
Twentieth century and the nuclear interactions In the twentieth century, the search for a unifying theory was interrupted by the discovery of the strong and weak nuclear forces (or interactions), which differ both from gravity and from electromagnetism.
Twentieth century In early twentieth century, the philosophy of mathematics was undertaken to develop mathematics as an airtight, axiomatic system in which every truth could be derived logically from a set of axioms.
Wolves were extirpated in Slovakia during the first decade of the twentieth century and, by the mid-twentieth century, could only be found in a few forested areas in eastern Poland.
According to Wikipedia, the phrase has been in use since at lease the middle of the twentieth century.
At the turn of the twentieth century, there were more than a dozen macaroni factories, several Italian bakeries, and a multitude of importers and small grocers in the neighborhood.
But no the twentieth day of May each year since 2018 has been designated by the United Nations.
But the French “didn’t quite understand Britten, and he didn’t quite understand them,” said Paul Kildea, the author of “Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century”the artistic director of Musica Viva Australia, in a phone interview from Melbourne.
Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society, which campaigns to protect Britain’s iconic post-1914 buildings, lamented the loss of the Watford Gap.
Despite modernisation, economic growth and rising proportions of employed women in the twentieth century, for a long period of time the earnings gap between women and men hardly closed.
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, several builders or property owners had the name of the Cross they were located in inscribed on the topmost piece of masonry.
Each week examines a major movement in twentieth-century art and addresses specific themes, contexts and artists.
He insisted that the current Palestinian predicament “amounts juridically to a situation of apartheid” — the Afrikaner term for the enforced legal segregation of South Africa’s Black majority by a white minority regime for most of the twentieth century.
He specialises in twentieth century art and has published on various aspects of British and European modernism.
I have long said that Pat Buchanan’s role in the second half of the twentieth century was simple: He was there, and he wasn’t insane.
In addition to Spielberg and Universal Pictures, Crichton had offers from Columbia/Tri-Star with "Superman" director Richard Donner, Warner Bros. with "Batman" director Tim Burton, and Twentieth Century Fox with "Gremlins" director Joe Dante.
In the early twentieth century, asbestos was often used to imitate real snow on film sets because it was waterproof, fireproof, didn't melt and was easy to handle.
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror.
Luis Echeverria, 100. A former Mexican president who tried to forged himself as a progressive world chief however was blamed for a few of Mexico’s worst political killings of the twentieth century.
One of the easiest ways to find the neighborhoods with too few trees and too much heat is to look at a map of where racial redlining prevented residents from benefiting from federal home loans for much of the twentieth century.