Diplomatic is another area for which the dawn of the twentieth century marks the beginning of modern standards of scholarship.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

The early years of the twentieth century seem very far away.

Whereas the eighteenth century had been a time in which man sought justice, the nineteenth and twentieth have been centuries in which men are satisfied with law.

'' He finds it equally `` remarkable that their critical diagnosis and prognosis should have so much in common among themselves and with the critics of the twentieth century ''.

Thus, if we are to observe American folklore in the twentieth century, we will do well to establish the relationships between folklore, nationalism and imperialism at the outset.

One boy said querulously about Orthodox Jews: `` It's the twentieth century, and they don't have to wear beards ''.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

In the twentieth century its influence grew, as did that of the Protestantism of the nineteenth-century immigration.

Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

In the twentieth century, academic disciplines often have been institutionally divided into three broad domains.

Toward the turn of the twentieth century, a number of anthropologists became dissatisfied with this categorization of cultural elements ; historical reconstructions also came to seem increasingly speculative to them.

The twentieth century saw a burgeoning of technological applications of the large body of scientific knowledge that was by then in place.

Amber and extracts were used from the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece for a wide variety of treatments through the Middle Ages and up until the early twentieth century.

The strategic site has been a prohibited zone in the twentieth century.

Andrew Carnegie ’ s political and economic focus of during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was the defense of laissez faire economics.

Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists ; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family.

Early in the twentieth century psychologist Carl Jung developed some concepts concerning astrology, which led to the development of psychological astrology.

Another view, as important to the philosophy of art as " beauty ," is that of the " sublime ," elaborated upon in the twentieth century by the postmodern philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.

By the end of the twentieth century " Negro " had come to be considered inappropriate and was rarely used and perceived as a pejorative.

Many were in common use, but had become unacceptable in normal discourse before the end of the twentieth century.

He should not be confused with Pope John XXIII of the twentieth century.

During the second half of the twentieth century the Montpellier basin underwent one of the most rapid population increases experienced anywhere in France.

The mill underwent several changes in management in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

A reasonably large number of countries underwent regime change in the aftermath of the global conflicts of the twentieth century.

In the late twentieth century, Irish society underwent rapid social change.

During the early part of the twentieth century Theravada Buddhism underwent a revival in Thailand under the leadership of outstanding teachers whose intentions were to raise the standards of Buddhist practise throughout the country.

Tynecastle underwent substantial changes in the early twentieth century.

Throughout the twentieth century the firm underwent a number of mergers, including William Younger's Brewery and later with Newcastle Breweries to form Scottish & Newcastle.

It underwent significant restoration works in the second decade of the twentieth century, when the pitch of the roof was raised and the internal space was remodelled.

Syncopated rhythm is a common characteristic in jazz music that was adapted to jazz dance in the early twentieth century and has remained a significant characteristic.

Particularly significant in this respect were two groups of critics and writers who were associated with Vanderbilt University in the early twentieth century: the Fugitives and the Agrarians.

It is recognized as a significant philosophical work of the twentieth century.

In the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the United Kingdom treated China as part of its unofficial Empire employing Chinese in its merchant marine in significant numbers.

The first significant foray into psychosurgery in the twentieth century was conducted by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz.

By the turn of the twentieth century, a proportionately small yet socially significant cross-section of China's traditional elite ( i. e. landlords and bureaucrats ), found themselves increasingly skeptical of the efficacy and even the moral validity of Confucianism.

Progress in mathematical logic in the first few decades of the twentieth century, particularly arising from the work of Gödel and Tarski, had a significant impact on analytic philosophy and philosophical logic, particularly from the 1950s onwards, in subjects such as modal logic, temporal logic, deontic logic, and relevance logic.

The only twentieth century building of significant architectural interest in the area is Stockwell Bus Garage.

Long a tiny farming community, Daleville saw significant expansion during the mid-to-late twentieth century with the establishment and enlargement of Fort Rucker, the U. S. Army's primary aviation training post.

Lacking a flowing stream that would have provided water power, Richland never developed significant industry and remained a sleepy farm community until the late twentieth century.

Amongst other poets of the second half of the twentieth century, the names of Roland Mathias ( 1915 – 2007 ), Leslie Norris ( 1921 – 2006 ), John Ormond ( 1923 – 90 ), Dannie Abse ( 1923-), Raymond Garlick ( 1926-), Peter Finch ( 1947-) and Paul Groves ( 1947-) have a significant place.

While the second half of the twentieth century saw the serious decline of Welsh heavy industry, along with serious unemployment and the hardship and suffering that came with it, it also saw significant cultural gains with regard to a separate Welsh identity within the British Isles, starting with the appointing of a Secretary of State for Wales in 1964, and the establishment of a Welsh Office in Cardiff the following year.

Amongst other poets of the second half of the twentieth century, the names of Roland Mathias ( 1915 – 2007 ), Leslie Norris ( 1921 – 2006 ), John Ormond ( 1923 – 1990 ), Dannie Abse ( born 1923 ), Raymond Garlick ( born 1926 ), Peter Finch ( born 1947 ), and perhaps also Paul Groves ( born 1947 ) have a significant place.

In the twentieth century wars brought significant destruction to Ostend.

Remarkably, the other twenty-one problems have all received significant attention, and late into the twentieth century work on these problems was still considered to be of the greatest importance.

Towards the later part of the twentieth century, there was significant confusion between female ejaculation and urinary incontinence.

In the twentieth century, early examples of cable-stayed bridges included A. Gisclard's unusual Cassagnes bridge ( 1899 ), in which the horizontal part of the cable forces is balanced by a separate horizontal tie cable, preventing significant compression in the deck, and G. Leinekugel le Coq's bridge at Lézardrieux in Brittany ( 1924 ).

Several restorations since 1958 to address structural damage have resulted in the extensive replacement of tiles, mosaics, ceilings, and walls such that " nearly everything that one sees in this marvelous building was put there in the second half of the twentieth century ", but without significant change to its original form and structure.

A debate, centered around the apparently significant ​​ Jewish origin of Antioquians, took place from mid-nineteenth century to the twentieth century.

The years of British administration of the Gold Coast during the twentieth century were an era of significant progress in social, economic, and educational development.

From beginnings in missionary schools, the early part of the twentieth century saw significant advances in many fields, and, although the missions continued to participate, the government steadily increased its interest and support.

Although just a single track, improvements were needed in the first half of the twentieth century to accommodate the significant number of tourists that wished to travel to the Somerset coast.

In those cases, the US Army helped transform militaristic dictatorships into pillars of liberal democracy — one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century.

One of the very significant German writers is the Lutheran Kurt Koch whose work has influenced much of both evangelical and charismatic thought in the late twentieth century.