Betekenis van:
twentieth century

twentieth century
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    • the century from 1901 to 2000

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    1. He is lost in the twentieth century.
    2. Antibiotics were discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century.
    3. Picasso is considered the greatest painter of the twentieth century.
    4. In the course of the twentieth century all this changed.
    5. It may safely be said that he is the greatest pianist in the twentieth century.
    6. We are living in the latter half of the twentieth century.
    7. The building of the Eiffel Tower marked the arrival of the twentieth century.
    8. Genocides of the twentieth century killed more people than all the wars.
    9. There is no telling how far science may have progressed by the end of the twentieth century.
    10. Briefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.