We all need modern Churchills to lead us from the clinging, flabby, consensual thinking of the late twentieth century and to bind our nations with a single-minded effort to wage a difficult war.
He was the twentieth in the competition.
Challenging the official history which often makes women invisible, Atwood focuses on the victimization of women by the major events during the twentieth century.
He's almost a mythological figure who can sanction, who can authorize this revolution in women's writing that Virginia Woolf is beginning to prophesy here early in the twentieth century.
A tenth of all A-levels are in art and design, or drama, film and media studies-but only a twentieth of those taken by students who gained places at top universities.
Longevity is the flip side of mortality, as Jews who survived the twentieth century do not need reminding.
One twentieth of the total output was exported.
And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.
This vaccine depends, according to Emmanuel Hanon, who helped develop it, on an oil-in-water-emulsion adjuvant so good that only a twentieth of the normal amount of antigen is needed.
Saul Bellow (1915 — 2005), the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, stands out as one of the giants among American novelists of the middle decade of the twentieth century.
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