21.   The voice is low and slow and slurred now, but in the ways that count, it is the voice of sports in the American century.

22.   They call it the American century.

23.   This survey of dance in the century will explain and illustrate the theme of dance in the American century.

24.   Through much of the American century just ended, tall buildings helped New York and the nation establish a bold persona on the world stage, optimistically and exuberantly.

25.   Very different mandarins ruled in Washington, D.C., at the apex of the American century.

26.   We were born into what was declared to be the beginning of the American century.

27.   With persistence and courage, we shaped the last century into an American century.

28.   World War I also marked the beginning of the American century.

29.   A nondescript park downtown here is named after US General John Pershing, who tamed the Muslim lands in the southern Philippines at the dawn of the American century.