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A half-century later, both of these performances still drew wide praise.
A half-century later, Newry flourished as the Allegheny Portage Railroad began to carry passengers from Hollidaysburg across the Alleghenies to Johnstown.
Although reduced in size from the L Outfit, the No. 10 Outfit became Meccano's flagship set and remained relatively unchanged until it was discontinued a half-century later in 1992.
Although Tocqueville emphasized the egalitarian nature of early 19th century America, Bryce was dismayed to find vast inequality a half-century later, stating " Sixty years ago, there were no great fortunes in America, few large fortunes, no poverty.
Conacher was later named Canada's athlete of the half-century.
A half-century later, on removing the houses, Federico Halbherr and his crew begn to discover the remains of an extensive palace complex.
Several decades later the Hungarian scholar Edward Rehatsek left an English translation, but one not published until over a half-century later.
A half-century later, one of them ( George MacDonald Fraser, later author of the Flashman novels, then a nineteen-year-old lance corporal ) recalled :" But the biggest boost to morale was the burly man who came to talk to the assembled battalion … it was unforgettable.
British claims were slowly lost with the increasing number of pioneers traveling to Oregon along the Oregon Trail, and 8 years later, the Oregon Treaty was signed with Britain, ending the half-century claims to Oregon and the Oregon Coast by the British.
His chief works are A Discourse of Government relating to Militias ( 1698 ), in which he argued that the royal army in Scotland should be replaced by local militias-a position of republican virtue which was to return a half-century later and foreshadowed the thinking of Adam Ferguson in lauding martial virtues over commercially minded polite society which he thought unmanly.
Also in 1951, on September 28, Van Brocklin threw for 554 yards, breaking Johnny Lujack's single-game record of 468, a mark that still stands more than a half-century later.
A half-century later, a history was written by Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ and published in The Clongownian school magazine during the 1980s ; that same decade, Peter Costello wrote Clongowes Wood: a History of Clongowes Wood College 1814-1989, published by Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1989 ).
Although both economists concluded from their theories that at the heart of the business cycle ( and economic crisis ) was government monetary policy, their disagreement would not be solved in their lifetimes, and indeed, it was inherited by the policy debates between the Keynesians and monetarists beginning a half-century later.
The Peterborough Examiner's lead editorial of 14 January 2009 says this: " Rohmer, one of Canada's most colourful figures of the past half-century, was a World War II fighter pilot, later a major-general in the armed forces reserve, a high-profile lawyer and a successful novelist and biographer.
A half-century later, the museum that bears his name was opened to the public in April 1977.
A poor batsman, Carr never made a half-century, and in his later years his batting declined even further ; in his last significant season ( 1913 ) he scored only 95 runs in 17 innings.
Almost a half-century later, in 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company was given exclusive trading rights to all North American lands draining into Hudson Bay – about 3. 9 million km² ( 1. 5 million sq mi – an area larger than India ).
A half-century later, in the year 6 A. H., the region became Muslim.
Lent wrote, " The first half-century of the comics spawned many kid strips, but only one could be elevated to the status of classic ... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson ..." Comics artist Jerry Robinson said,

half-century and low
< center > Red circles show the location and size of many dead zones. Black dots show dead zones of unknown size. The size and number of marine dead zones — areas where the deep water is so low in dissolved oxygen that sea creatures can ’ t survive — have grown explosively in the past half-century.
After scoring 82 runs including a half-century in the first Test against the West Indies in October, Nafees endured a run of low scores across Tests and ODIs that jeopardised his place in the team.

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He made his comeback a memorable one with a match winning hundred over Guyana, followed by a dismissive undefeated half-century in the second innings, scored at over two runs per ball.
Morocco is a fairly stable economy with continuous growth over the past half-century.
In eight first-class matches after his Test campaign was over, Benaud added a further half-century in addition to the century against Pearce's XI, and took 22 more wickets, including 4 / 20 against the Gentlemen of England.
The Bulgarian victory over the Byzantines marks the end of the half-century political instability in Bulgaria.
His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.
The large retrospectives devoted to Miró in his old age in towns such as New York ( 1972 ), London ( 1972 ), Saint-Paul-de-Vence ( 1973 ) and Paris ( 1974 ) were a good indication of the international acclaim that had grown steadily over the previous half-century ; further major retrospectives took place posthumously.
Neihart went through a series of booms and busts over the next half-century.
The residents of the area gained full U. S. citizenship and slowly assimilated into American life over the next half-century.
This went against the last half-century of precedent that Canterbury had jurisdiction over the four Welsh sees, a precedent that dated back to Anselm's days when Anselm had consecrated Urban as Bishop of Llandaff in 1107.
As a result, over the next half-century the Synod's membership doubled.
Probably due to competition from other media, the number of daily newspapers in the U. S. has declined over the past half-century, according to Editor & Publisher, the trade journal of American newspapers.
Whitman made over two hundred appearances in various movies and television shows over a half-century span between 1951 and 2000.
Nader Vossoughian has written that " The Fountainhead ... has shaped the public's perception of the architectural profession more than perhaps any other text over this last half-century.
When Photisarath died in the following year, after a fatal accident while hunting wild elephants, Setthathirat succeeded him and joined together the two kingdoms -- which were soon embroiled in Siamese-Burmese wars that devastated much of the region over the next half-century.
Reasons for this can be found in the pattern of settlement across the province over the previous half-century.
He set up a sawmill in what is now South Norwood, the part of town to which the first concentration of families, almost all of whom were farmers, migrated over the next half-century.
In 1960, McGraw-Hill published My First Fifty Years in Politics, by Joe Martin as told to Robert J. Donovan, a lively and detailed account of Martin's role in American politics over a half-century.
This arrangement paved the way for the eventual loss of the region to the Magyars, although that happened over the half-century following Petar's death.
In 1998, with the approval of the State Council, the new Zhejiang University was established as a combination of four major universities that had grown up in Hangzhou over the previous half-century, namely Zhejiang University, Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Agricultural University and Zhejiang Medical University.
This event was marked by the release of a DVD, which showed highlights of the BBC's television coverage of significant events over the half-century, as well as changes in the format of the BBC television news ; from the newsreel format of the first BBC Television News bulletins, to the 24-hour, worldwide news coverage available in 2004.
Werther entered the repertoire at the Opéra-Comique in 1903 in a production supervised by Albert Carré, and over the next half-century the opera was performed over 1, 100 times there, Léon Beyle becoming a distinguished interpreter of Werther.

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