So, why not Margery Childe in twentieth-century London?. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
"It was strictly twentieth-century stuff, ex-British Army.". From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
"Your-planet people never read twentieth-century Earth books?". From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
Long enough to lock up almost all of twentieth-century culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
The artist was well inspired to give his picture a twentieth-century setting. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
Economic readjustments constitute the crying need of the twentieth-century city. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Is not that the very essence of the truly triumphant twentieth-century democracy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
They are some of the handiwork of the twentieth-century German military cavemen of. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914] Reference
Yet such a viewpoint overlooked the essential reality of twentieth-century warfare. From Wordnik.com. [On Yankee Station]
As it advanced, twentieth-century physics actually expanded the place for the unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Clayton, Ph.D.: Is Stephen Hawking Right About God?] Reference
In the busy hive of twentieth-century civilization scant space has been provided for drones. From Wordnik.com. [A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece] Reference
"But wait," I say, anticipating twentieth-century cable TV pitchman Billy Mays, "there's more.". From Wordnik.com. [At the Viking Poetry Slam] Reference
What if we had locked up most of twentieth-century culture without getting a net benefit in return?. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
My notion is that the twentieth-century man is morally solvent, though he is temporarily embarrassed. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
If we're preparing kids to compete in a twentieth-century economy, D-quality work is essentially failure. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Tipler: Getting rid of D's is great, if...] Reference
George Ade are perhaps the most interesting authors of fables -- at least to twentieth-century Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
June 2010 was the 304th consecutive month with a land and ocean temperature above the twentieth-century average. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Giddens: Open Letter on Climate Change] Reference
What history and romance there is about Pau is pretty well blotted out by twentieth-century snobbism, it would seem. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Like this twentieth-century pioneer, whose persona still resonates with consumers, from coffee lovers to Kobe Einstein. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2009] Reference
Tatar settlement on Topaz and so been forced to speed up that translation from late twentieth-century Americans to primitives?. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
Strode turned to the officer on his left, who was busy checking the typed scenario against a very twentieth-century stopwatch. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
We both laughed, and there rose in my mind a picture of a twentieth-century house decorated with Aunt Jane's "nine-patches" and. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
There was a third element that now developed in it -- the modern, the twentieth-century, the American, the Rockefeller element. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
Upon the floor was the wretched paper which my Victorian conscience and my twentieth-century caution had prevented me from signing. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21] Reference
No girl's library -- no family book-case can be considered at all complete unless it contains these sparkling twentieth-century books. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
For these icons of twentieth-century liberalism, the first question of politics was how to subject economic power to democratic control. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Sandel: Obama Must Assert Democratic Control Over Economic Forces] Reference
No girl's library -- no family book-case -- can be considered at all complete unless it contains these sparkling twentieth-century books. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
They are a part of the imperfection that is characteristic of this stage of human progress, and especially of the twentieth-century city. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Influences and arguments which sound strange enough in twentieth-century ears were powerful, and likely to be employed with dangerous success in. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
In the back of his mind, he had recalled the battle-cry of some sergeant of the old United States Marines during an early twentieth-century war. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
The nineteenth - and twentieth-century arguments got as nasty, racist, and hyperbolic as anything we're hearing today with regard to Arizona's new law. From Wordnik.com. [Ray Suarez: Red, Brown, and Blue: How our definition of whiteness has changed with each new wave of immigration--and how it needs to change again] Reference
The language of this Pennsylvania Writers 'project of the W.P.A. is obviously twentieth-century, and it contains references to events which had not yet occurred. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
They looked, Forrester thought, as if a truckload of non-objective twentieth-century sculpture had collided with another truck full of old television-set innards. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
West Branch, were both nineteenth-century writers, and, unfortunately, twentieth-century scholars have not considered the Fair Play settlers worthy of their study. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
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