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By the time the boats return, news reaches the family that the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.
`` By God '', Waddell said, `` we don't want to upset the boy at this time of all times.
By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.
) By the time the streetcar pulled away, he had fallen in love with Paula.
By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.
By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.
By this time, as we shall see, the Tories were already planning to `` punish '' Steele for his political writing by expelling him from the House of Commons.
By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.
By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.
By the time they reach that age, however, Aristotle no longer worries about the evil influence of comedies.
By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.
By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.
By that time, perhaps something better can be done ''.
By that time we should be in a much better position to determine the value of that aircraft as a weapon system.
By this time Henri's entire chest-back-lat-shoulder area is pumped-up to almost bursting point, and Claude takes time to do a bit more pectoral-front deltoid shaping work.
By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.
By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true.
By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.
Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.
By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.
By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.
By this time there is little doubt but what election plans were complete.
By the very nature of the situation, it is the union which has been able to select the time and place to bring pressure upon management.
By the time pupils reach the sixth grade, their ethical and moral standards are fairly well developed ; ;
By and boats
By the mid 19th century, many boats had been built with iron or steel frames but still planked in wood.
By the 1930s boats built of all steel from frames to plating were seen replacing wooden boats in many industrial uses, even the fishing fleets.
By the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, TBDs were " large, swift, and powerfully armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other torpedo boats.
By the 1880s, these had evolved into small ships of 50-100 tons, fast enough to evade enemy picket boats.
By 2002 the Falklands ' economy was booming, with income from tourism and the sale of squid fishing licences as well as from indigenous fishing companies with locally registered boats.
By the 17th century, wooden wagonways were common in the United Kingdom for transporting coal from mines to canal wharfs for transshipment to boats.
By the turn of the 20th century, the term no longer included mines and booby-traps as the navies of the world added submarines, torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers to their fleets.
By World War II torpedo boats were seriously hampered by higher fleet speeds ; although they still had a speed advantage, they could only catch the larger ships by running at very high speeds over very short distances, as demonstrated in the Channel Dash.
By 1889 the first 6 electric charter boats were working on the Thames and in the 1893 Chicago World Fair 55 carried more than a million passengers.
By purchasing green electricity it is possible to operate electric boats using sustainable or renewable energy.
* By the use of any power vehicle or power boats for herding or driving animals, including use of aircraft to land alongside or to communicate with or direct a hunter on the ground.
By December 1918, Holt Thomas claimed in an advertisement that Airco was the largest aircraft company in the world and was building aeroplanes, engines and propellors in large numbers, as well as airships and flying boats.
By war's end, more of the Elco boats were built than any other type of motor torpedo boat ( 326 of their boats were built ).
By the early nineteenth century, horse-drawn canal boats were traveling all the way upstream to Charlottesville, Charlottesville.
By 1832, Lewis Weiss began building boats for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company and the Morris Canal & Banking Company.
By 1828, boats were traversing of " tolerable good and safe navigation " of the Roanoke River between Brookneal and Salem.
By 1929, three passenger boats left the Indianola dock for Seattle every day, and the 1930s brought more connections to the outside world.
By 1797 the aqueduct was open, carrying the canal above the river, and boats were now able to travel the from Preston to Tewitfield.
By the latter part of the 19th century it was common practice to paint roses and castles on both narrow boats themselves and their fixtures and fittings.
By 1823, as a result of pressure from carriers, boats were allowed to use the navigation at any time during the week, but the company refrained from authorising use on Sundays as they could not " consent to so great a Deviation from established Custom ".
By the 1950s, the southern section was un-navigable by canal boats, as several of the locks could not be operated, and some of the small pounds between the locks of the Wilmcote flight were dry.
By the 1880s, there was dissatisfaction among the users that the rates for traffic were higher than on the railways, and the canals were failing to modernise, as steam boats were banned, despite them having been in use for 50 years on the neighbouring Aire and Calder Navigation.
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