A quarter inch this way or that for the hardbake, or the toffee, or the barley sugar, or the sardines, or the bitters, or the condensed milk, or the stationery, or the needles -- what could it mean??

The terms mulatto and colored were widely used until the second quarter of the 20th century, when they were considered outmoded and generally gave way to the use of negro.

; Location: Oceania, island in the North Pacific Ocean, about a quarter of the way from the Philippines to Hawaii, U. S. A.

In the last quarter of the Twentieth Century the belief that government ( ruling in accordance with the interests of the people ) ought to directly involve itself in the day to day workings of an economy declined in popularity amongst the center left, especially social-democrats who became influenced by ' third way ' ideology.

Another thing, when you put on the gorilla head, you can only turn your head maybe a quarter of the way.

Being an Exact and True account ( by way of Journal ) of the various actions of infernal Spirits or ( Devils Incarnate ) Witches or both: and the great Disturbance and Amazement they gave to George Walton's family at a place called Great Island in the county of New Hampshire in New England, chiefly in throwing about ( by an Invisible hand ) Stones, Bricks, and Brick-Bats of all sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Utensils, as came into their Hellish minds, and this for space of a quarter of a year.

His oikoumenè spanned 180 degrees of longitude from the Blessed Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the middle of China, and about 80 degrees of latitude from Shetland to anti-Meroe ( east coast of Africa ); Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe, and an erroneous extension of China southward suggests his sources did not reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

The quarterback began each play a quarter of the way back, the halfbacks began each play side by side and halfway back, and the fullback began each play the farthest back.

Two controversial penalties early in the fourth quarter paved the way for the Steelers to score 14 unanswered points.

Before he can get halfway there, he must get a quarter of the way there.

During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership ( 1965 – 1989 ), much of the historic part of the city was demolished and replaced with Socialist realist development such as the Centrul Civic ( the Civic Centre ), including the Palace of the Parliament, where an entire historic quarter was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's megalomaniac constructions.

Without ECC, noise would have made up roughly a quarter of an received image, while the ECC encoded the data in a redundant way which allowed to reconstruct the sent image data at the reception.

After the 1492 Alhambra decree, which resulted in the majority of Granada's Jewish population being expelled, the Jewish quarter ( ghetto ) was demolished to make way for new Catholic and Castilian institutions and uses.

Electrical lengthening is the modification of an aerial which is shorter than a whole-number multiple of a quarter of the radiated wavelength, by means of a suitable electronic device, without changing the physical length of the aerial, in such a way that it corresponds electrically to the next whole-number multiple of a quarter of the used wavelength.

In the last quarter of the 20th century, Egyptian music was a way to communicate social and class issues.

During the Japanese reign of terror in Nanking – which, by the way, continues to this day to a considerable degreethe Reverend John Magee, a member of the American Episcopal Church Mission who has been here for almost a quarter of a century, took motion pictures that eloquently bear witness to the atrocities committed by the Japanese .... One will have to wait and see whether the highest officers in the Japanese army succeed, as they have indicated, in stopping the activities of their troops, which continue even today.

The OED in support of its explanation of the " quarter " in origin referring to the way the staff was made points to an early attestation of the term, dated to 1590,

The two most prominent capes along the Pacific coastline of the peninsula are Punta Eugenia, located about halfway up the coast, and Cabo San Lazaro, located about a quarter of the way north from Cabo San Lucas.

The order of importance was the other way round, when the Boston quarter of Skirbeck developed at the head of the Haven, which lies under the present Market Place.

Webbville thrived until 1828 when Beveridge and other Marianna settlers went to Tallahassee and enticed the Florida Legislature with free land, construction of a courthouse, a public square and $ 500 to purchase a quarter section of land to be sold at public auction as a way to finance the new government, if the county seat was moved to Marianna.

On November 9 in a home game against Denver, the team scored 54 points in the 3rd quarter alone, shooting 20 – 21 in the process, on the way to a 144 – 113 rout of the Nuggets.

What is called the lower road from Bath to Wells goes through High Littleton but Rugburn old house is a quarter of a mile east of the village and about half way between it and Mearns coal pit.

When the Jefferson Highway was first located through Eufaula the only way of crossing the South Canadian River, about four miles below the town, was by means of a rather uncertain ferry, and the citizens of Eufaula, feeling the great need of a good bridge across the river, incorporated-The Jefferson Highway Bridge Company, and at a cost of almost a quarter of a million dollars, built the present splendid structure of steel and concrete, forty feet above low water ; affording a 365 day crossing throughout the year.

Wynooche Valley Road, the road north from Montesano which follows the course of the Wynoochee River, is the access way to the southern quarter of the Olympic National Park.

He went into the Jewish quarter, wanting to draw Hebraic faces so that he could reach a visual understanding of how Christ might have looked.

Although the pause in the advance of general business activity this year has thus far been quite modest, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the softening process will continue into the first quarter of 1961 and possibly somewhat longer.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

If the square mile is divided into quarters, each quarter has a side length of mile ( 880 yards ) and is square mile in area, or 160 acres.

In the 2nd quarter, though, Eli Manning connected with Hakeem Nicks for a short touchdown pass to make it 7-2 Giants heading into the 2nd half.

U-27 was lying off Nicosians port quarter and firing into it when Baralong appeared on the scene, flying the ensign of the United States as a false flag.

Oceans are at present CO < sub > 2 </ sub > sinks, and represent the largest active carbon sink on Earth, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air.

The first British frigates carried 28 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-four 9-pounder guns ( the remaining four smaller guns were carried on the quarter deck ) but soon developed into fifth-rate ships of 32 or 36 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-six 12-pounder guns, with the remaining six or ten smaller guns carried on the quarter deck and forecastle.

Both the US liquid and imperial gallon are divided into four quarts ( quarter gallons ), which in turn are divided into two pints.

The new arrivals included many middle-class families who moved into towns and established small businesses and workshops — although lack of economic opportunities meant that approximately a quarter later left Palestine.

Due to the regular encoding of the MOV-instruction ( using a quarter of available opcode space ) there were redundant codes to copy a register into itself ( MOV B, B, for instance ), which was of little use, except for delays.

Despite diminishing government financial support over the past quarter century, MIT launched several successful development campaigns to significantly expand the campus: new dormitories and athletics buildings on west campus ; the Tang Center for Management Education ; several buildings in the northeast corner of campus supporting research into biology, brain and cognitive sciences, genomics, biotechnology, and cancer research ; and a number of new " backlot " buildings on Vassar Street including the Stata Center.

There are many tactics where machine pistols come into play, including room clearing, personal defense, close quarter battle and door breaching.

When the time is running continuously, the 32-bit time code is broken into 8 4-bit pieces, and one piece is transmitted each quarter frame.

The Gospels were likely translated into Latin as early as the last quarter of the 2nd century in North Africa ( Afra ).

Growth fell by 3. 4 % in the fourth quarter of 2008 from the previous quarter, the first negative quarterly growth in 10 years, with year on year quarterly growth continuing to be negative into 2009.

Facing the 13 – 0 Colts on the road, the Chargers took a 16 – 0 lead into the third quarter of the game, but the Colts responded with 17 points of their own to take a one-point lead in the fourth quarter.

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".

The Cathedral was converted into a mosque and the quarter on the Ortygia island was gradually rebuilt along Islamic styles.

New England took the quickest lead in Super Bowl history with Tony Franklin's 36-yard field goal 1: 19 into the first quarter after a Chicago fumble.