Meaning of 1930s | Babel Free

Definitions

The decade from 1930 to 1939.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“In addition to glazed ceramics we have⟳, for the first time, actual remnants of wood — not simply imprints in the earth like⟳ those found at An-Yang. The first discovery of these woods was an accident, occurring at railroad excavations of the early 1930s in the South China province of Hunan, at the city of Ch’ang-Sha.”

“Note⟳ the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.”

“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.”

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