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Example sentences for: twentieth-century
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(One might add in passing that the twentieth-century, establishmentarian feathers ruffled by D. H. Lawrence with Lady Chatterley's Lover were less the result of Mellors' seducing a member of the aristocracy than his not addressing her properly.)
When it comes to the driving force behind the late twentieth-century industrial transformation, lean retailing is at the forefront of that revolution.
One can be sure that the purposes of early twentieth-century officials, ever concerned about swelling immigration patterns, were not benign.
The early twentieth-century success of Wanamaker’s and other department stores illustrates that the keys to effective retailing are providing customers with a variety of desirable products, procuring those products at a low enough cost to make a profit, marketing them well, and charging prices that reflect customers’ willingness to pay.
Now, critics declare him a cerebral modernist who eschewed convention: He used "a nineteenth-century vocabulary but speaks with a twentieth-century voice" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). The revisionists rate him one of the century's great composers.