To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

For fifty years his guns and ham-like fists shot holes through and battered the daylights out of the enemies of law and order in the frontier towns of the West.

He also spoke of `` the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years in unrequited toil ''.

It had been here fifty years.

She turned and walked stiffly into the parlor to the dainty-legged escritoire, warped and cracked now from fifty years in an atmosphere of sea spray.

The severe yet harmonious vases of the previous fifty years, the Strong Geometric style of the late ninth century, display as firm a mastery of the principles underlying Geometric pottery ; ;

Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.

Giffen filed a petition for permission to emancipate four slaves ( all more than fifty years old ) with the St. Martin's Parish Police Jury.

Hoping to cut down on such works, Udall had proposed that a politician be at least fifty years departed before he is memorialized.

Ulyate made no comment but his face showed what he thought of poking ropes over lions' heads with poles, and of course these were the lions of fifty years ago, not the gentler ones of today, and this one was angry, with good reason.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

I have, within the past fifty years, come out of all uncertainty into a faith which is a dominating conviction of the Truth and about which I have not a shadow of doubt.

Most such printed sources have been updated for intervals of only about every fifty years ( e. g., J1900, J1950, J2000 ).

Within fifty years from his death his societies could claim 50, 000 members.

He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.

Notably, this was introduced more than fifty years before payment for attendance at assembly meetings.

By the early 5th century Britain had been Roman for over three hundred and fifty years.

The British thus gained a respite, and peace lasted at least until the time Gildas was writing: that is, for perhaps forty or fifty years, from around the end of the 5th century until midway through the sixth.

For example, cold weather crops like rye, oats, wheat, and apples are expected to decline by about 15 % in the next fifty years and strawberries will drop as much as 32 % simply because of projected climate changes of a few degrees.

Nowadays the castle still belongs to the Academy of Science to which it was bequeathed in 1895 on condition of its producing within fifty years a catalogue of half-a-million stars.

Encouraged, however, by letters signed by the rabbis of Argentière and Lunel, and particularly by the support of Kalonymus ben Todros, the nasi of Narbonne, and of the eminent Talmudist Asheri of Toledo, Ben Adret issued a decree, signed by thirty-three rabbis of Barcelona, excommunicating those who should, within the next fifty years, study physics or metaphysics before their thirtieth year of age ( basing his action on the principle laid down by Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed part one chapter 34 ), and had the order promulgated in the synagogue on Sabbath, July 26, 1305.

Acrylic paints have only been in use for approximately fifty years ; within that time they have yet alter in ways seen in oil paints.

The other doors, probably about forty to fifty years later, are enriched with bas-reliefs, landscapes, figures and elaborate interlaced borders.

His grandson, Morihiro Hosokawa, became prime minister fifty years later.

It was left incomplete at the time of Melzi's death more than fifty years later, with only a small amount of the material on anatomy included in Leonardo's Treatise on painting, published in France in 1632.

He was succeeded by Maximinus Thrax, the first of a series of weak emperors, each ruling on average only 2 to 3 years, that ended fifty years later with the Emperor Diocletian ordered split between the Eastern and Western Roman Empires.

Feeling his end approaching, Cyril put on the monastic habit and died fifty days later ( 14 February 869 ).

Although he was stunned by the upheaval by participants in the Annual Reminder in 1969, he later observed, " By the time of Stonewall, we had fifty to sixty gay groups in the country.

However, it appears that some contemporary and later writers, such as the Christian author Lactantius, and Sextus Aurelius Victor ( who wrote about fifty years later and from uncertain sources ), misunderstood the Tetrarchic system in this respect, believing it to have involved a stricter division of territories between the four emperors.

This painting was either restored or completed more than fifty years later by Filippino Lippi.

Nearly fifty years later, the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, allowing the vice president to assume the presidency any time the president was rendered incapable of carrying out the duties of the office.

Band morale was low, and Westerberg later stated: " We'd much rather play for fifty people who know us than a thousand who don't care ".

His death " shook the nation almost as much as Winston Churchill's fifty years later ".

About fifty years later, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan asked for help from the Persians, so the Persians sent all of their criminals as an army to Yemen.

* October 10 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School ( later renamed the United States Naval Academy ) opens with fifty midshipmen and seven professors.

In other mathematical work, he re-discovered the " Gibbs phenomenon " in the theory of Fourier series ( which, unbeknownst to him and to later scholars, had been described fifty years before by an obscure English mathematician, Henry Wilbraham ).

There are no established stories of a royal house at Mycenae later than the Atreids, and this could reflect the fact that not much more than fifty or sixty years seem to have separated the fall of Troy VIIa ( the likely inspiration of Homeric Troy ) and the fall of Mycenae.

Silver-footed Thetis ( Ancient Greek: ), disposer or " placer " ( the one who places ), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ( whose name suggests the " first ", the " primordial " or the " firstborn ").

Vasari says that Raphael eventually had a workshop of fifty pupils and assistants, many of whom later became significant artists in their own right.

The Life of Edward the Confessor, written fifty years later, claimed that when Emma was pregnant with him, all Englishmen promised that if the child was a boy they would accept him as king.

Almost fifty years later, Lawrence v. Texas struck down Texas sodomy laws.

One hundred and fifty years later, in the times of Mauregato, the hymn O Dei Verbum rendered St. James as " the golden head of Spain, our protector and national patron " and a mention is made of his preaching in the Iberian Peninsula during the first decades of Christianity.

This structure was demolished to make way for the present one, which was built in 1917 and gained notoriety fifty years later when it was the location of a gunfight between land rights activists and authorities.

Nebuchadnezzar I of the Babylonian empire plundered Susa around fifty years later.