We cannot truthfully say of anyone who has succeeded in entering deep into his sixties that he was never old.

Giselle was reluctant but Alex succeeded in persuading her to come back in five minutes and the door was shut again.

It was with the assistance of one of the members of this expedition, Lauritz Esmarch, that Oersted succeeded in producing light by creating an electric discharge in mercury vapor through which an electric current was made to flow.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

She was succeeded by Clarence Goyette.

The Colonial Light and Power Company was succeeded by the Vermont Hydro-Electric Corporation, which in turn was absorbed by the Central Vermont Public Service Corporation.

He succeeded almost too well, because once she rose as if to charge, and he half wheeled his horse -- he was within fifty feet -- but she sank back.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

Even before it was formally dissolved in 1912, the A.L.A.M. was succeeded by the Automobile Board of Trade, the direct lineal ancestor of the present-day Automobile Manufacturers Association.

They succeeded in eluding the curious at the hotel, but there was no chance of avoiding them at the nightclub.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.

He was succeeded as Emperor by his adopted son ( also stepson and former son-in-law ) Tiberius.

He was succeeded as bishop of Milan by Simplician.

Ahab was succeeded by Ahaziah and Jehoram who reigned over Israel until Jehu's revolt of 842 BC.

In October 2007, the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, Iowa, notified its staff that the casino was closing and they were going to be laid off.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787, which was no longer a small frontier settlement but a small town, and much more to Allen's liking than the larger community that Bennington had become.

He was buried four days later in the Green Mount Cemetery in Burlington.

Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, to a family of modest means.

Born in Burlington, Iowa, on May 15, 1874, Mason was the eldest son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey and Mary Josephine Mason Remey, the daughter of Charles Mason, the first Chief Justice of Iowa.

The concept was quickly seen as successful, and was expanded to other railroads operating out of Chicago, including the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chicago and Rock Island, Pennsylvania and the Erie.

Noyce was born on December 12, 1927, in Burlington, Iowa.

The galleria is covered by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for 19th-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade in London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels and the Passazh in St Petersburg.

The case was brought by three same-sex couples who applied for and were denied marriage licenses in the towns of Milton, Shelburne and South Burlington.

The D & RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in what is arguably the world's most famous passenger train, the California Zephyr, which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ( CB & Q ) from Chicago to Denver and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California ( with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco ).

After Fortune magazine exposed the manufactured mismanagement in 1974, Louis W. Menk, chairman of the Burlington Northern Railroad, remarked that the story was undermining the scheme to dismantle Amtrak.

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork PC ( 25 April 1694 – 15 December 1753 ), born in Yorkshire, England, was the son of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Earl of Cork.

Burlington was called ' the Apollo of the Arts ' and never took more than a passing interest in politics despite his position as a Privy Councillor and a member of the House of Lords.

Lord Burlington, also known as " the architect Earl ", was instrumental in the revival of Palladian architecture.

In the meantime, in 1723 he adapted the palazzo facade in the illustration for the London house of General Wade in Old Burlington Street, which was engraved for Vitruvius Britannicus iii ( 1725 ).

Burlington's first project, appropriately, was his own London residence, Burlington House, where he dismissed his baroque architect James Gibbs when he returned from the continent in 1719 and employed the Scottish architect Colen Campbell, with the history-painter-turned-designer William Kent for the interiors.

The courtyard front of Burlington House, prominently sited in Piccadilly, was the first major executed statement of neo-Palladianism.

In the 1720s Burlington and Campbell parted, and Burlington was assisted in his projects by the young Henry Flitcroft, " Burlington Harry "— who developed into a major architect of the second neopalladian generation — and Daniel Garrett — a straightforward palladian architect of the second rank — and some draughtsmen.

For the rest of his life Burlington was " the Apollo of the arts " as Horace Walpole phrased it — and Kent his ' proper priest.

In 1739, Burlington was involved in the founding of a new charitable organisation called the Foundling Hospital.