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Twentieth in sentence

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Images like this, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, have been seared into our consciousness during the twentieth century and have given us a new understanding of who we are, where we've come from and the times we live in.
During the twentieth century, we witnessed the atrocities of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Rwanda and other genocides, and even though the twenty-first century is only seven years old, we have already witnessed an ongoing genocide in Darfur and the daily horrors of Iraq.
The tiny, little blue bar in the lower left-hand corner plots the corresponding statistic from United States and Europe in the twentieth century, and includes all the deaths of both World Wars.
The twentieth century was that century where, at least for those places we know the best, culture moved from this read-write to read-only existence.
Eve Ensler: You know, I think Carl Jung once said that in order to survive the twentieth century, we have to live with two existing thoughts, opposite thoughts, at the same time.
Quick aside: It's worth noting that the first big war of the twentieth century began with an act of terrorism.
Fortunately, we have probably one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century that underpins that pattern.
But in the twentieth century, a Japanese folder named Yoshizawa came along, and he created tens of thousands of new designs.
Was a beloved pianist, maybe the great cult pianist of the twentieth century.
The Digital Highway arrived in America's living rooms late in the twentieth century.
Despite these possible omissions and her untimely death, what survives is one of the most extraordinary bodies of work by a twentieth century poet.
This is a way in which modernism infiltrated this country and became perhaps the most popular, or promiscuous typeface, of the twentieth century.
That was the media landscape as we had it in the twentieth century.
And here is the twentieth century answer.
I went to see a friend of mine, and he made me wait in his apartment in Malabar Hill on the twentieth floor, which is a really, really upmarket area in Mumbai.
The use of landscape is particularly uninspired - we never lose the feeling we are watching twentieth century actors wandering in a supposedly medieval landscape.
This also had two of the most annoying characters I have ever come across in the young boy on the spaceship and the redneck from the twentieth century.
Critters 4 ranks as one of the greatest films of the twentieth century.
I strongly recommend this to anyone interested in seeing one of twentieth century's major film landmarks.
It turned out to be the body of what many consider one of the greatest American architects of the twentieth century, Louis I. Kahn.
What will be Prospero in the twentieth century, what is his life?
As a recreational golfer with some knowledge of the sport's history, I was pleased with Disney's sensitivity to the issues of class in golf in the early twentieth century.
For,indeed the three of these have made a sort of celluloid-electronic mythology for a punchy, war phobic mid twentieth century world.
The film also deals directly with the class tensions of the early twentieth century and touches upon the profound anti-Catholic prejudices of both the British and American establishments.
This neo-film noir is one of a genre of late twentieth century American films that all seem to involve corrupt characters, fast cars, a ribbon of highway and, of course, plenty of guns wielded by people who appear never to have taken a gun safety course.
'The AristoCats (1970),' directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, was the twentieth film in Disney's official canon, and is a romantic musical comedy revolving around a family of aristocratic cats living in Paris, France in 1910.
The historical atmosphere, the young girl looking for love, the amazing background of music hall and the voyage into the lesbian world of London early twentieth century make this an exceptional movie.
I've just finished seeing the film for the first time in it's entirety (although I watched some parts when it was first shown in Britain in the mid-90's), I truly believe it to be a masterpiece of late twentieth century cinema.
I mean, this is one of the great stories of the twentieth century: an unknown man takes advantage of the unsuspecting airline industry and GETS AWAY with millions in ransom without hurting anyone or bungling the attempt.
More than any other film, this one brings a human face to the historical drama of early twentieth century "progress."
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