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1920s en · NOUN

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1. (plural, plural-only) The decade from 1920 to 1929.
   • Their business model of the 1920s and 1930s, which had catapulted the business to undreamt-of heights, had then turned into something of a ball and chain. 2011, John Bradley, Cadbury's Purple Reign: The Story Behind Chocolate's Best-Loved Brand:
   • The history of fish-farming in nondesert areas here, mostly in the Galilee region near the sea, dates back to the late 1920s, before Israel was established as a state. 2007 January 2, Dina Kraft, “From Far Beneath the Israeli Desert, Water Sustains a Fertile Enterprise”, in The New York Times:
   • In the 1920s, the golly was used as a trademark for Robertson's Marmalade, and a little cut-out paper figure was popped into the stone jars between a circle of greaseproof paper and the lid. 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 163:

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Synonyms

twenties · referring to the rapid economic expansion and modernization of the period · 20s · Roaring Twenties · '20s