-- I, too, congratulate the American Legion, of which I am proud to have been a member for more than 40 years, on the recent state convention.

For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.

Contrary to the thinking of 30 to 40 years ago, when all malocclusion was blamed on some unfortunate habit, recent studies show that most tooth irregularity has at least its beginning in hereditary predisposition.

A study of major denominational membership statistics over a twenty-year period revealed the appalling fact that nearly 40 per cent of those who joined the Church were lost to the Church within seven years.

He was 25 years old, and paid $ 40.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

A mosquito and a fly in this Baltic amber necklace are between 40 and 60 million years old

In 1937, Wilson and Smith could count 40 alcoholic men they had helped to get sober, and two years later they counted 100 members, including one woman.

Over a 40 years period there would be a difference greater than 780, 000 miles.

After its creation by Moses, the Ark was carried by the Israelites during their 40 years of wandering in the desert.

Katczinsky was a cobbler in civilian life ; he is older than Paul Bäumer and his comrades, about 40 years old, and serves as their leadership figure.

It stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from its completion in 1931.

* Children and the Vietnam War 30 – 40 years after the use of Agent Orange

Thus it was the Aeginetans who, within 30 or 40 years of the invention of coinage in Asia Minor by the Ionian Greeks or the Lydians ( c. 630 BC ), introduced coinage to the Western world.

In 1680 Jean Picard, in his Voyage d ’ Uranibourg, stated, as a result of ten years ' observations, that Polaris, or the Pole Star, exhibited variations in its position amounting to 40 ″ annually.

John Flamsteed, from measurements made in 1689 and succeeding years with his mural quadrant, similarly concluded that the declination of the Pole Star was 40 ″ less in July than in September.

* 1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.

After about 40 years, however, Capp's interest in Abner waned, and this showed in the strip itself ," according to Don Markstein's Toonopedia.

Modern solar cells last about 40 years, which makes them a reasonable investment in some areas.

New conservation techniques were inspired by the disaster, but even 40 years later hundreds of works still await restoration.

All pop music is love and theft, and in 40 years of records whose sources have inspired volumes of scholastic exegesis, Dylan has never embraced that truth so warmly.

According to the Tarnovo Constitution, all men between 21 and 40 years of age were eligible for military service.

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987, 40 years after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line.

Over the last 40 years biochemistry has become so successful at explaining living processes that now almost all areas of the life sciences from botany to medicine are engaged in biochemical research.

An exception to this general tendency is his Latin treatise " De falconibus " ( later inserted in the larger work, De Animalibus, as book 23, chapter 40 ), in which he displays impressive actual knowledge of a ) the differences between the birds of prey and the other kinds of birds ; b ) the different kinds of falcons ; c ) the way of preparing them for the hunt ; and d ) the cures for sick and wounded falcons.

* Prophecies → Passages of Isaiah 40 – 66 refer to events that did not occur in Isaiah's own lifetime, such as the rise of Babylon as the world power, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the rise of Cyrus the Great, which is taken as evidence of later composition.

Evidence of this existence is based on the discovery of dinosaur remains in the Hell Creek Formation up to above and 40, 000 years later than the K – T boundary.

Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

This proved valuable human capital for the 24, 000 alumni who later served in the military and the 40, 000 who left the reservations for war jobs in the cities.

Some years later it was learned that they had licensed it to Apple for something like $ 40, 000.

Two years later, however, he came out of retirement and in 1973 recorded several albums, scoring a Top 40 hit with "( Theme From ) New York, New York " in 1980.

By the later stages of the Eighty Years War the Dutch had switched entirely from the heavier ships still used by the English and Spanish to the lighter frigates, carrying around 40 guns and weighing around 300 tons.

Caesar's invasion may well have led to the loss of some 40, 000-70, 000 scrolls in a warehouse adjacent to the port ( as Luciano Canfora argues, they were likely copies produced by the Library intended for export ), but it is unlikely to have affected the Library or Museum, given that there is ample evidence that both existed later.

Reportedly, 40, 000 Goths were brought by Constantine to defend Constantinople in his later reign, and the Palace Guard was mostly composed of Germans, as the quality of the native Romans troops kept declining.

A year later he signed with Scotti Brothers Records and issued the moderately successful album, Gravity, in 1986, which included Brown's final Top 10 pop hit, " Living in America ", marking his first Top 40 entry since 1974 and his first Top 10 pop entry since 1968.

Some early reports described the tsunami wave as being 40 meters ( 130 feet ) high, but later reports claimed it was 3 m ( 10 ft ).

Similar research was carried out by Ignat Ignatov almost 40 years later.

Electric locomotives, because they tend to be less technically complex than diesel-electric locomotives, are both easier and cheaper to maintain and have extremely long working lives, usually 40 to 50 years: the last unit of the Italian E626 class, introduced in 1928, was retired 71 years later, in 1999.

After an unsuccessful pro-Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, Trotsky was arrested on 7 August 1917, but was released 40 days later in the aftermath of the failed counter-revolutionary uprising by Lavr Kornilov.

God later commanded Moses to inscribe two other tablets, to replace the ones Moses smashed, so Moses went to the mountain again, for another period of 40 days and nights, and when he returned, the commandments were finally given.

Tony escaped the scene, but was tracked down with police dogs 40 minutes later in an airbase parking lot.

** Panzer General, SSI ( 1994 ), video game ; strategic simulation game: Sea Lion ' 40 and Sea Lion Plus ( the latter with prestige points used to take over Gibraltar allowing Italian naval assistance ) scenarios are available given major victories in early operations, or the Sea Lion ' 43 after initial delays and later major victories in North Africa or Russia.

Chuck Klein repeated the feat nearly 40 years later to the day, on July 10, 1936, at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field.

This new 2. 5 liter configuration engine is the predecessor of the 944 platform ( s ) and the later quick 944S 16V M44 / 40 power-plant.

People with a family history of schizophrenia who suffer a transient psychosis have a 20 – 40 % chance of being diagnosed one year later.

The technical standard known today was largely created by IDEG ( later WP4 ) as the two recommendations GSM 03. 40 ( the two point-to-point services merged ) and GSM 03. 41 ( cell broadcast ).