The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

However, the healthy inventory position of the textile industry lends support to the broadly expressed belief that improvement in that industry can be expected by the second half of 1961.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

During the Seventies the projections show a more pronounced rise to an annual rate of 1,338,000 in the second half of that decade.

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

At that time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism will be staged.

The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.

Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

Wait for me, Laban, I'll be dressed in half a second ''!!

It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.

With the Academies in Europe ( second half of 16th century ) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.

As a theologian Alain de Lille shared in the mystic reaction of the second half of the 12th century against the scholastic philosophy.

In the second half of 1226, Andrew lead his armies to Halych on the request of his youngest son, Andrew.

In the second half of 1231, Andrew led his armies to Halych and managed to ensure his youngest son's rule in the principality.

FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second European front in the war and reached a critical level in the late 1940s, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings.

MKS was adopted internationally during the 1940s, defining the second as 1 / 86, 400th of a mean solar day.

Turkmenistan's major gas deposits were discovered in its central and eastern areas in the 1940s and ' 50s, and in the 1980s the republic became the second largest producer of gas in the Soviet Union, behind the Russian SFSR.

After the war many players returned to their teams, while the major event of the second half of the 1940s was the 1945 signing of Jackie Robinson to a players contract by Branch Rickey the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

It was the second year of the 1990s, and is usually considered the final year of the Cold War that had begun in the late 1940s.

Christopher Golden's 2000 novel Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row depicts Spike killing a Slayer named Sophie in the 1940s, contradicting the two Slayers whom Spike is later established to have killed ; the second Slayer Spike killed was established as New Yorker Nikki Wood.

* Frank Sinatra recorded three studio versions of the song ; the first as a single for Columbia in the 1940s, the second, in 1959 for the album No One Cares, and lastly, in 1984 for the album L. A. Is My Lady.

This is the second of the Disney package films of the 1940s.

In the 1930s to 1940s Otter Creek was the second largest community in Levy County with a population approaching 1, 000.

* Billy Herman ( July 7, 1909 – September 5, 1992 ) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball during the 1930s and 1940s.

* Stanley R. Tiner, American journalist lived with his parents in Cotton Valley in the second half of the 1940s before moving to Shreveport.

Kerouac's road-trips with Cassady in the late 1940s became the focus of his second novel, On the Road.

A second series of four episodes was transmitted in February 2010, with the 1910s, 1920s, 1940s & early steam trains as the subjects of each episode.

In the 1940s, Santos did not win any state titles, but from the second half of the decade, when former goalkeeper Athié Jorge Cury became its president, began to show signs of great promise.

Postmodernity has been said to have gone through two relatively distinct phases, the first beginning in the late 1940s and 1950s and ending with the Cold War ( when analog media with limited bandwidth encouraged a few, authoritative media channels ) and the second beginning at the end of the Cold War ( marked by the spread of cable television and " new media " based on digital means of information dissemination and broadcast ).

In the 1930s and 1940s, Nearing and his eventual second wife, Helen Knothe, lived in Winhall in rural Vermont, where they had purchased a rather large forest tract for $ 2200 and a moderate sized farm for $ 2500.

In the early 1940s, Weil used the first definition ( over an arbitrary base field ) but could not at first prove that it implied the second.

The local, state and federal governments have investigated the viability of building a second major airport in Sydney since the 1940s.

During the second half of the 1940s, 1950s and ' 60s Corona and its neighbor, East Elmhurst, was home to legendary African American musicians, civil rights leaders and athletes including Malcolm X aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Dr. Ophelia Devore, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Shavers, Ella Fitzgerald, jazz vocalist, composer and recording artist Norman Mapp, Nat Adderley, Frankie Lymon,

During the 1940s O ' Keeffe had two one-woman retrospectives, the first at the Art Institute of Chicago ( 1943 ), and the second in 1946 at the Museum of Modern Art ( MOMA ) in Manhattan, the first retrospective MOMA held for a woman artist.

A significant minority of Chanthaburi citizens are native Vietnamese, who came there in three waves-first in the 19th century during an anti-Catholic persecution in Cochin China, a second wave came in the 1920s to 1940s fleeing from French Indochina, and a third one after the communist victory in Vietnam in 1975.

The idea of an indoor shopping center with a hotel was envisioned in the 1940s by oilman Glenn H. McCarthy where a second phase was to include the Shamrock Hotel ; this concept was scrapped right after the Hilton Hotel franchise took over the Shamrock in 1955.

The idea for < i > On The Road </ i > formed during the late 1940s ; it was to be Kerouac's second novel.

In his 1994 book " My Singing Teachers ," Torme cited Patty Andrews, lead singer of The Andrews Sisters, the most successful show business act of the 1940s ( second only to Bing Crosby ), as one of his favorite vocalists, saying, " They had more hit records to their credit than you could count, and one of the main reasons for their popularity was Patty Andrews.