As much as any woman of the twentieth century, Madam Walker paved the way for the profound social changes that altered women's place in American society.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
