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名詞

1920s pl (plural only)

1. The decade from 1920 to 1929.
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 163:

     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.

   • 2007 January 2, Dina Kraft, “From Far Beneath the Israeli Desert, Water Sustains a Fertile Enterprise”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

   • 2011, John Bradley, Cadbury's Purple Reign: The Story Behind Chocolate's Best-Loved Brand:

     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.

同意語

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

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