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to mid-twentieth century”? “Early-to-mid twentieth century”? “Early-to-mid-twentieth century”? A... twentieth century,” “in the mid-twentieth century,” and, by extension, “in the early to mid-twentieth ...: “early twentieth-century history,” “mid-twentieth-century history,” and “early-to-mid-twentieth ...

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early twentieth century” but “during the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries”? A. Exactly. Please see CMOS 7.8....

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-twentieth” in “mid-twentieth century” hyphenated? Shouldn’t it be closed up as “midtwentieth century” or...advise an en dash: “mid–twentieth century.” But we decided as of the fifteenth (2003) that this was...just too fussy. The hyphenated form lends itself better to compound modifiers, as in “mid-twentieth ...

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expressions like “in the early twentieth century.” What is the maximum number of years (five, ten... twentieth century”? A. The word “early” will always be an approximation. But we like your idea of...

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nineteenth century” or “at the turn of the twentieth century”? Most of the writers I’ve edited use the...beginning of the twentieth century,” or “at the end of the nineteenth century,” or “in the years...

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“the turn of the nineteenth century” or “the turn of the twentieth century”? It seems that since the...the “turn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth”—i.e., the change from 1900 to 1901 (or...

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FAQ Item Capitalization Q. Is it okay to capitalize Modernist when speaking of the twentieth ...

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running text which refers to the twentieth century. Since the quote is from the New York Times, it...

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b.c. to the twentieth century,” which I had copied from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art web page...

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twentieth century, typewriters ensured that manuscripts were typically prepared in a fixed-width typeface...

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