Century in sentence

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This sort of geometry revolutionized mathematics when it was first discovered in the 19th century.

And kindergarten was actually a very formalized system of education, established by a man named Friedrich Froebel, who was a crystallographer in the 19th century.

In the last century, we expected material innovation to come from the likes of DuPont, Dow, BASF.

So buried in signage are these structures, that it often takes a moment to distinguish the modern specially constructed taxpayer from its neighbor: the small commercial building from an earlier century, whose upper floors have been sealed, and whose groundfloor space now functions as a taxpayer.

It was not until the 14th century that an Italian painter recognized the lap as a Grecian temple, upholstered in flesh and cloth.

The first half of the 20th century was an absolute disaster in human affairs, a cataclysm.

It was only in the second half of the 20th century that we slowly began to pull ourselves out of this abyss.

And perhaps most remarkably, at the beginning of the 21st century, really for the first time in modern history, growth extended to almost all parts of the world.

But at the end of the 20th century, the beginning of the 21st century, we saw growth in Africa.

But it is going to happen in this century.

The real tragedy of the last century is this: if you think about the world's population as a giant computer, a massively parallel processor, then the great tragedy has been that billions of our processors have been off line.

But in this century China is coming on line.

We will see an Einstein in Africa in this century.

1500 to 1800: maybe a little bit of economic growth, but less in a century than you expect to see in a year today.

Twentieth century: a little bit over two percent.

Twenty-first century could easily be 3.3, even higher percent.

Now let's imagine that you were an economist in 1929, trying to forecast future growth for the United States, not knowing that the economy was about to go off a cliff, not knowing that we were about to enter the greatest economic disaster certainly in the 20th century.

In fact in the second half of the 20th century growth was even higher than anything you would have predicted based upon the first half of the 20th century.

The woman who faced this interrogation was born in the mid-17th century.

At that time, Mexico had been a Spanish colony for over a century, leading to a complex and stratified class system.

Or maybe if I want to be more 21st century, I could say that they're different harmonic resonances of a superstring.

In the 12th century, the wealthy maritime republic of Pisa set about turning its cathedral square into a magnificent landmark.

But construction halted at the fourth story for nearly a century as Pisa descended into prolonged warfare.

Because, starting in the 2060s, with the ability to record the neural activity in the brains of patients with these different mental diseases, rather than defining the diseases on the basis of their symptoms, as we had at the beginning of the century, we started to define them on the basis of the actual pathology that we observed at the neural level.

So for example, in the case of ADHD, we discovered that there are dozens of different diseases, all of which had been called ADHD at the start of the century, that actually had nothing to do with each other, except that they had similar symptoms.

So it was kind of incredible, in retrospect, that at the beginning of the century, we had been treating all those different diseases with the same drug, just by giving people amphetamine, basically is what we were doing.

Well, for the last century, we've organized ourselves around fossil fuels, arguably, the most valuable material system we have ever known.

In the 4th century BCE, a banker’s son threw the city of Sinope into scandal by counterfeiting coins.

In the Roman province of Syria in the 2nd century CE, the satirist Lucian described the Cynics of his own time as unprincipled, materialistic, self-promoting hypocrites, who only preached what Diogenes had once actually practiced.

9th century Arabic writings describe boiling fermented liquids to vaporize the alcohol in them.

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