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The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.
In recent years, it has been run over a week's time as a group stage followed by knock-out stages.
The IJK is an event of concerts, presentations, excursions, and recreation, usually of one week's duration and attended by a few hundred young people from many different countries.
The show often opened with a deadpan delivery by Horne of " the answers to last week's questions "-questions which had never been asked, and which were laced with ( what were for BBC Radio at that time ) incredible double entendres and sexual innuendo, such as
John Milton, in L ' Allegro tells " how the drudging Goblin swet / To earn his cream-bowle duly set " by threshing a week's worth of grain in a night, and then, " stretch'd out all the chimney's length, / Basks at the fire his hairy strength.
For weekly rep, and for a typical 3 act play with a wise director, the actors ' week would start Tuesday and go as follows: Tuesday: Notes on last night's opening from the director, then a sitdown readthrough of the next play with some discussion by the director, on-the-feet blocking of the moves for Act I with few questions from the actors, and there are performances of last week's play each night.
Times have changed, the practice of a new play every week and a week's rehearsal doesn't happen, and today the practice of " rep " is more likely to be seen in large cities in the manner applied by such well-known established companies as Birmingham Rep in the Midlands of England which states in its programmes: "" The REP " presents a season with each play generally having an unbroken run of between three and six weeks.
In the early 1950s, diving regulators made by Siebe Gorman cost £ 15, which was an average week's salary.
Eumenes is put to death by Antigonus after a week's captivity.
Initial candidates were selected by the rent collectors during their weekly rounds and a committee decided on the final prizes which ranged from ten shillings consolation prizes up to £ 20 ( an average week's rent in 1953 was about £ 1 18 /- (£ 1. 90 )) for the first prize in each ward, plus a notice placed in the centre of the lawn for the benefit of passers-by.
The network explained the decision by stating that because that week's episode did not arrive in time to be previewed, it would not be shown.
On the last night June 18, they were joined on stage by that week's opening act The Doors.
The network explained the decision by stating that because that week's episode did not arrive in time to be previewed, it would not be shown.
The Cyclists ' Touring Club advertised a week's all-in tour, staying at hotels recommended to it by other cyclists, for £ 3 10s.
The week's performance was highlighted by a third-round 64 that consisted of eight birdies and no bogeys.
Although the Graf Zeppelin stamps are today highly prized by collectors as masterpieces of the engraver's art, in 1930 the recent stock market crash meant that few were able to afford these stamps ( the $ 4. 55 value for the set represented a week's food allowance for a family of four ).
Bond, however, is saved by nurse Patricia Fearing and later retaliates against Lippe by trapping him in a steam bath, resulting in the Count's second-degree burns and a week's stay in hospital.
" followed by a commercial for the next week's sponsor before the end titles would be shown, ( Wildroot Cream Oil and Johnson and Johnson sponsored alternate episodes ) the end credits start with the opening sequence, with Sandy Becker mentioning the sponsors name again, and the sponsors product appearing on screen through the end titles which are shown over the shot of the tree.
When they had wearied themselves by exercise, the revellers returned to the replenished board ; and not seldom the feast, designed to begin and end in a day, was protracted into a demoralising debauch of a week's or even a month's duration.
The coordinator's airfare and a week's hotel stay were paid for by the production.
Some sources erroneously name the pilot as " A Roof Over My Head ", which was actually the title of the previous week's Comedy Special, written by Barry Took ( which also led to a series ).
Each week at the end of the show, a town ( selected on the prior week's show by an audience member throwing a dart at a rearranged map of the United States ) is honored as the Town of the Week.
On her show ( which only lasts the duration of the sketch itself ) she has multiple guests, usually celebrities of the time played by other cast members of SNL or by the actual celebrities themselves ( usually whoever is guest-hosting that week's SNL episode, appearing as themselves ), who appear to be interviewed by her.

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only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.
The truth in their conflicting concepts was expounded by statesmen of the calibre of Webster and Calhoun, and defended in the end by leaders of the nobility of Lincoln and Lee.
If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.
He fought to the end to preserve it as a `` government of the people, by the people, for the people ''.
The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.
My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;
For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.
They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.
They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.
`` I think by the end of next week he could get out in the air a little.
If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.
Research and development activities undertaken by the Secretary shall be coordinated or conducted jointly with the Department of Defense to the end that developments under this Act which are primarily of a civil nature will contribute to the defense of the Nation and that developments which are primarily of a military nature will, to the greatest practicable extent compatible with military and security requirements, be available to advance the purposes of this Act and to strengthen the civil economy of the Nation.
I again proposed a reduction in the Army National Guard and Army Reserve -- from their present strengths of 400,000 and 300,000, respectively, to 360,000 and 270,000 by the end of the fiscal year 1961.
Multiplication, subtraction, and addition can then be accomplished as they appear in the equation by starting at the left end of the equation and working toward the right.
And what better way to end a day than by dining with artists and gourmets in a squat but charming fisherman's village on the Mediterranean??
Spectra were also obtained from a sample in a spherical container which was made by blowing a bubble on the end of a capillary glass tube.
The development of the Andrena larvae is very rapid, so that by the end of spring they have already pupated and become adults.
For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.
The consuming public has used up a good part of these liquid assets, or they have been drained by the rising price level, and we have apparently gotten to the end of the line in making consumer or home mortgage terms easier.
They continued to arrive until the end of December, 1960, by which time a total of 1,343 returns were received representing 26.8 per cent of the 5,014 questionnaires sent out.
Both Cook's and Russell's lives were threatened by the Mexicans following the killing, but the company officers felt that in the end, it would serve to quiet them despite their immediate emotion.

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