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TEXT 31 The 20th century Times mortuary 时代的殓房（陈继龙 编译） Jun 1st 2006 From The Economist print edition WHAT was the 20th centurys most distinctive feature? It is a historians parlor game[1], but there can be no definitive answer. For some, it would be getting men to the moon, discovering penicillin, splitting the atom or some other great scientific a________①. For others, it would be the fastest and most sustained period of economic growth in history. Or the end of the age of empires, which had dominated the politics and economics of the world for centuries. For Niall Ferguson, however, only th