31.   A retrospective of Mexican art from the past century could not pretend to be complete without an excursion into the delightfully off-kilter world of magic realism.

32.   A prosperous agricultural town that once had the largest Jewish population in Portugal, Castelo de Vide seems unchanged from centuries past.

33.   Britain suffered a disaster every decade of the past century.

34.   But Cave said the political environment has changed in the past century.

35.   But Gramm said that, given enormous advances in metallurgy over the past century, surely more could be done.

36.   But over the past century, rising incomes permitted more workers to save for old age.

37.   But the worlds of medicine and prayer have been far apart for the past century.

38.   By this standard, the Balkan dead of the past century have been singularly undernourished.

39.   Combines episodic narrative with a philosophical overlay to evaluate the often horrifying century just past.

40.   Coming changes could scarcely be more sweeping than those of the past century.