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n. 1 The decade consisting of the years 1900 through 1909. 2 The century consisting of the years 1900 through 1999.
Usage examples of "nineteen hundreds".
Because of the low clouds hanging over the area, though, Kirk's view was limited to most of a San Francisco that had apparently not changed very much since the late nineteen hundreds, even though the Greater Quake in the middle of the twenty-first century had leveled the old city and most of the surrounding area.
In the nineteen hundreds a man would have to make use of a typewriter, radio, telephone, teletypewriter, newspaper, reference library, encyclopedias, office files, directories, plus messenger service and consulting lawyers, chemists, doctors, dieticians, filing clerks, secretaries—.
It had a very large, hand-carved wooden altar that was made in Poland and shipped over here in the early nineteen hundreds.