They'd peddled the soap virtually alone, and without much success, until about a year ago, when -- with the addition of `` SX-21 '' to their secret formula and the inauguration of a high-powered advertising campaign -- sales had soared practically into orbit.

He was not enthusiastic over the newly acquired Claude Lorrain, but reminisced with pleasure over a Poussin exhibit he had been able to see in Paris a year ago.

A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.

Weeks ago he saw a business upturn in the second quarter of this year while his colleagues in the Cabinet were shaking their heads in disagreement.

`` So you're looking for a woman who married a man who might have lived here a year ago and might have been poisoned.

The item said Mr. and Mrs. Black had moved to Jackson, his home town -- so the lovely Lisa had been with him a year ago.

Years ago when I asked her to put me in Social Security, so's I wouldn't have to be working now, Miss Julia threatened to fire me -- all because it would mean a few more dollars a year to her ''.

He declared on March 25 that the United States had erred a year and a half ago by `` encouraging the removal '' of Prince Souvanna.

Solly Hemus announced a switch in his starting pitcher, from Bob Gibson to Ernie Broglio, for several reasons: 1 Broglio's 4-0 won-lost record and 1.24 earned-run mark against Pittsburgh a year ago ; ;

Farmers are so eager for new machinery that they're haggling less over prices than they did a year ago, dealers report.

With dealer stocks of new equipment averaging about 25% below a year ago, the affects of the rural recovery are being felt almost immediately by the country's farm equipment manufacturers.

On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.

Said Leatherneck Shoup: `` A year ago I took the grips of the plow in my hands.

A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

A year ago the Negro Radio Association was formed to spur research which the 30-odd member stations are sure will bring in more business.

Montag then remembers a man he once met in the park a year ago: Faber, a former English professor.

About 90 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period, the Indian Plate began moving north at about 15 cm / year ( 6 in / yr ).

We recorded his track in Los Angeles in maybe two takes about a year and a half ago.

The Xindi arc, started over a year ago in " The Expanse ," ended with the third episode, " Home ," which mostly dealt with Captain Archer's ethically and morally questionable actions during the yearlong mission in the Expanse.

Reporting by The Village Voice was positive, describing " the out-front resistance that grew out of the police raid on the Stonewall Inn one year ago ".

: When Bartlett's approached me in — I forget what year, five or six years ago — I got a call from the editor.

* August 11 – William Corder is hanged at Bury St. Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago.

* Undated – Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar-almost double the 263 needed eight months ago and dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1929 and even the 47 needed in December of that year.

Avenatti claims the state's investigation was shoddy, saying, “ Investigators from the state were told by various groundskeepers over a year ago that they had been repeatedly told to throw bones away, and yet for some reason, the state didn ’ t adequately follow up .”

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

`` Don't forget, here was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for almost a year of willfully attempting to present an incorrect report.

It was a merry if somewhat soggy Christmas for me that year.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

He rose at 4:00 A.M. the year round and was apt to stride through camp crowing like a cock to wake his men.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.

Nothing was going to be done this year to celebrate Garibaldi's bold and unsuccessful defense of Rome.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.