Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donnell began his World War II career with a bitter delaying action, in which he and a handful of other U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to India. He became operations officer of the Tenth Air Force in India and later leader of the Twentieth Air Force's first B-29 raid on Tokyo...
This paradox of the Twentieth Century--the mushrooming of good and evil side by side--is easily illustrated. On the one hand, it has been a century of extraordinary material and scientific progress, of a remarkable lengthening of the human life span, of a widening of access to the world's cultural heritage from the very few to many more. It has been a half century of the emancipation of women, of the growth of democracy, of Wilsonian idealism and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights...
...friend has made a saving suggestion: "Why don't you write a book about yourself in the twentieth century-like you wrote one about yourself in the eighteenth?" By page 352, Shireen has slipped some paper into a typewriter and made a start. If Shireen has sense enough to make her central character a beautiful doll named Kathleen Winsor, it should be a bestseller...
Alec Bright was eleventh, Irv Fisk twelfth, Jim Lawson thirteenth, Rod Nordbloom fourteenth, Gordon Abbott fifteenth, Len Wilson seventeenth, and Dwight Black twentieth. Nineteen members of each team competed...
English 160, English and American Drama of the Twentieth Century, leads the list with an enrollment of 107 students. This is the second year that English 160 has taken first place...