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was and mid-fifties
In the post-war period between the mid-fifties and sixties, the Leningrad school of painting was approaching its vertex.
By the mid-fifties, Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd could no longer sustain an independent existence and in 1956 it was absorbed into the Heinemann group.
Osler, who had a well-developed humorous side to his character, was in his mid-fifties when he gave the speech and in it he mentioned Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period ( 1882 ), which envisaged a College where men retired at 67 and after a contemplative period of a year were ' peacefully extinguished ' by chloroform.
Webb was in his mid-fifties when actor / director Otto Preminger chose him over the objections of 20th Century Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck to play the elegant but evil radio columnist Waldo Lydecker, who is obsessed with Gene Tierney's character in the 1944 film noir Laura.
By the mid-fifties Allard was struggling.
Eventually a weary Eames, who was in his mid-fifties when the controversy began and who had served Hingham as first militia captain, a selectman, and Deputy in the General Court, threw in the towel and moved to nearby Marshfield where he again served as Deputy and emerged as a leading citizen, despite his brush with the Hingham powers-that-be.
What disturbed Goehr was mainly his perception that by the mid-fifties, serialism had become a cult of stylistic purity, modelling itself on the twelve-tone works of Anton Webern.
Hoffman's poetry collection Journey to the End ( which includes the poems that Lamantia read at the Six Gallery ) was published by City Lights in 2008, bound together with Lamantia's own Tau, a poem-cycle also dating from the mid-fifties.
The facility is the second Palmer Station ; " Old Palmer " was about a mile to the northwest adjacent to the site of the British Antarctic Survey " Base N ", built in the mid-fifties.
It wasn ’ t until Baishi was in his mid-fifties that he was considered a mature painter.
Cura's business was at its peak in the mid-fifties, his business having doubled overnight following the launch of ITV in 1955.
From the mid-fifties there was a significant drop in gate receipts as television became more and more popular.
Its popularity waned after the mid-fifties, and by the 1970s was largely forgotten.
In 1947, two of the three sisters ( Kitty left the trio and was replaced by the Italian singer Maria Bria ) moved to South America, where their artistic career continued until the mid-fifties.
In the mid-fifties though, Blue Note was a struggling label, hit by the record industry's changeover to the 12 " LP format, but the popularity of the organ / soul jazz craze, driven by the innovative work of Jimmy Smith, ensured that the label survived.
In his mid-fifties he was probably well-established as a successful banker who dealt with a wide variety of Pompeians.
In a typical year, the winning score is in the mid-fifties, though in 2009 it was as low as 51 and in 2010 and 2011 as high as 59.
Gildo was born Ludwig Franz Hirtreiter in Straubing, Bavaria ; in the mid-fifties he adopted the stage name Alexander Gildo, later shortening it to Rex Gildo.
Carl Haas, from Chicago, was Elva agent in the midwest of the United States from the mid-fifties through the nineteen sixties.
A domestic musicians ' union ban on visiting American jazz musicians, initiated in the mid-thirties ( Fats Waller had to visit the UK as a ' variety ' act in 1938 ) was gradually relaxed from the mid-fifties onwards.

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He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.
Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.
And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.
Then he was on his way at a gallop.
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
I was nearly thirty at the time.
only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.
Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.
Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.
`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

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