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Early in 1940, he was trained for a commission after, whilst working in a kitchen, answering the question of an inspecting brigadier with a Greek proverb ; on several occasions, he told colleagues that he expected to be at least a major-general by the end of the war.
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Thomas was an accomplished writer of prose poetry, with collections such as Potrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ) and Quite Early One Morning ( 1954 ) showing he was capable of writing moving short stories.
Early on, Munk was a strong opponent of the German Occupation of Denmark ( 1940 – 1945 ), although he continually opposed the idea of democracy as such, preferring the idea of a " Nordic dictator " who should unite the Nordic countries and keep them neutral during periods of international crisis.
Early in 1940, with the prospect of immediate invasion, the possibilities of the petrol bomb gripped the imagination of the British public.
Early on during Asimov's original world-building of the Foundation universe, he established within the first published stories a chronology placing the tales approximately 50, 000 years into the future from the time they were written ( c. 1940 ).
Wrote jazz historian Gary Giddins in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 1903 – 1940:
Early in 1940, the corporate organization of Mutual became even more inclusive, as described by scholar Cornelia B.
Early models were powered by compressed air and the first aircraft to be fitted with such a system was the Heinkel He 280 prototype jet-engined fighter in 1940.
Early in 1940, Greiser is on record challenging Hermann Göring over efforts to delay the expulsion of Łódź Jews to Poland.
Early broadcast radio receiver -- wireless Truetone model from about 1940
The position of Parker ( 1940 ) and his followers is that there is only one Hebrew gospel, the Gospel of the Hebrews but that there were several editions of this one gospel in the Early Church.
Early in 1940, he spoke before a meeting of the Labour and Socialist International in Brussels and described the early stages of the Nazi persecution of Polish Jewry.
Early in 1940, the Paris Group decided on theoretical grounds that heavy water would be an ideal moderator.
Early famous residents included Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Agatha Christie ( 1940 – 46 ), László Moholy-Nagy, Adrian Stokes, Egon Riss and Arthur Korn.
His lectures on Buddhist psychology at the University of Patna were published in 1939 as The Psychological Attitude of Early Buddhist Philosophy, and his lectures at Shantinekan as Psycho-Cosmic Symbolism of the Buddhist Stupa in 1940.
Early 1940 model Oldsmobiles with Hydra-Matic Drive could be started with the transmission selector lever in any position.
Early in the 1940 season, he began to experience problems controlling the accuracy of his pitches.
Early funding was meager, but in 1940, scientists at Columbia University and the University of California were able to demonstrate the weapons potential of the isotope uranium-235 and the newly-discovered element plutonium.
Early in the war ( 1939 – 1940 ), Müller made a number of trips to the Vatican under the identity " X.
* Kitzinger, Ernst, Early Medieval Art at the British Museum, ( 1940 ) 2nd edn, 1955, British Museum
Early in 1940, the question of air defense of the Alaska Territory came into the limelight when President Roosevelt pointed out in his message to Congress requesting funds for fortification of Guam and Wake Islands and other strategic points in the Pacific that airfields were needed in Alaska.
Early in 1940, Macon's Chamber of Commerce began a campaign to bring war industries and defense installations to the City.
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Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.
Early equipment was very flimsy ; ;
the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).
It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).
Early in her life she had discovered that where there were men, there was money, and with the two came luxury and liquor.
Early in 1822 he was at Fort Garry offering to bring in pork, flour, liquor and tobacco.
Early in the war it was not uncommon for planters' sons to retain in camp Negro `` body servants '' to perform the menial chores such as cooking, foraging, cleaning the quarters, shining shoes, and laundering clothes.
Instead Sergeant Early was quiet, sharp and confident.
There was no weapon Early could not take apart and reassemble blind-folded.
But for all his erudite confidence, Sergeant Early was right out of the Garryowen mold.
Sergeant Early let the new CO know just how lucky he was to be in the best troop in the best regiment in the United States Army.
Early in the nineteenth century the State of New Hampshire was casting about for a way to found its own state university.
Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.
" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.
Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.
Early Adelaide was shaped by religious freedom and a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties, which led to the moniker " City of Churches ".
The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul.
Early guncotton was unstable however, and burned very fast and hot, leading to greatly increased barrel wear.
She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.
The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.
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