He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

They'd peddled the soap virtually alone, and without much success, until about a year ago, when -- with the addition of `` SX-21 '' to their secret formula and the inauguration of a high-powered advertising campaign -- sales had soared practically into orbit.

This year, on a night cool with the front of September moving in, but with plenty of summer still about, the Podgers were holding a neighborhood gathering in the Pod.

There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching to him last year.

Here he sketched, sitting in their flowing gowns of linen and silk, young girls not yet twenty, some about to be married, some married a year or two.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

In sum, I look for another good year for the electronics industry in 1961, with total sales increasing about 7% to $10.8 billion, despite the uncertainties in the business outlook generally.

This year, Americans will discover previously unheard of refinements in trailers that will be exhibited in about one hundred of our nation's national, regional and local boat shows.

You can forget about screens, and leave the storm windows up all year around.

Every year about this time National Gargle Your Cooling System week rolls around.

Present data indicate an accretion of about Af tons per year over the entire globe, or about Af.

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.

After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.

Nosebleed could be stopped by wrapping a red woolen string about the patient's neck and tying it in a knot for each year of his life.

Here, at the Ravine Lodge, President Dickey acts as host every year to about a hundred freshmen who are being introduced by the Dartmouth Outing Club to life on the trails.

He expressed the opinion the city could hire a CD director for about $3,500 a year and would only have to put up half that amount on a matching fund basis to defray the salary costs.

Government attorneys, Leavitt said, have questioned him closely about `` five or six loans '' totaling about $40,000 which the liquor company made to Stein in the last year.

This year-to-year decline for Dallas County closely follows the national trend -- estimated sales of domestic cars in the U.S. for first three months of 1961 were about 1,212,000 or 80 per cent of the total in the first quarter a year earlier.

For the year to date, sales of the company's farm equipment dealers still lag about 5% behind 1960.

With dealer stocks of new equipment averaging about 25% below a year ago, the affects of the rural recovery are being felt almost immediately by the country's farm equipment manufacturers.

For example, farm equipment shipments of International Harvester in August climbed about 5% above a year earlier, Mr. Keeler reports.

Agriculture Department economists estimate the Government this year will hand farmers $1.4 billion in special subsidies and incentive payments, well above the record $1.1 billion of 1958 and about double the $639 million of 1960.

) But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee -- and that he was the only man who could do anything effective.

The travel time of sound in tissue is about 1500 meters per second ; ;

This appellation continued to exist for about 1500 years till 630 BC, as stated in Assyrian chronicles.

These scripts are thought to derive from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet ( dated to about 1500 BC ), which is thought to derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The Venetian artist Jacopo de ' Barbari, whom Dürer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Dürer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.

Instruments on Galileo detected a fireball which reached a peak temperature of about 24, 000 K, compared to the typical Jovian cloudtop temperature of about 130 K, before expanding and cooling rapidly to about 1500 K after 40 s. The plume from the fireball quickly reached a height of over 3, 000 km.

The use of crossbows in European warfare is again evident from the Battle of Hastings until about the year 1500.

It became mature about the 1500 BC.

Smoothed historical measurements of ΔT using total solar eclipses are about + 16800 s at the year − 500 ( 501 BC ), + 10600 s at 0 ( 1 BC ), + 5700 s at 500 ( AD ), + 1600 s at 1000, and + 180 s at 1500.

Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.

Between the 4th and 16th centuries, the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about March 21 in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March.

The letter ð was used throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, but gradually fell out of use in Middle English, practically disappearing altogether by 1300 ; þ survived longer, ultimately being replaced by the modern digraph th by about 1500.

For example, both the Egyptians and the Babylonians were aware of versions of the Pythagorean theorem about 1500 years before Pythagoras ; the Egyptians had a correct formula for the volume of a frustum of a square pyramid ;

Lequien ( I, 1123 ) mentions only six Greek bishops, the first as being present at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, when the see was united to that of Coela ( Coelia or Coele ), the last about 1500.

The new King, James II, pardoned religious dissenters jailed for failure to attend the established church, leading to the release of about 1500 Friends.

In England, the practice of using marks of cadency arose to distinguish one son from another: the conventions became standardized in about 1500, and are traditionally supposed to have been devised by John Writhe.

The first known people were Indo-Iranians, but their date of arrival has been estimated widely from as early as about 3000 BC to 1500 BC.

The city of Balkh ( Bactra ) was founded about this time ( c. 2000 – 1500 BC ).

There has been a gradual increase in brain volume ( brain size ) as the ancestors of modern humans progressed along the timeline of human evolution, starting from about 600 cm < sup > 3 </ sup > in Homo habilis up to 1500 cm < sup > 3 </ sup > in Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.

A religious rite having this effect was attributed to the physician Dhanvantari, founder of the Vedic tradition, in about 1500 BCE.

Scribes in medieval Europe ( about AD 800 to 1500 ) wrote principally on parchment or vellum.

It reduces the Earth's magnetic field inside by about 1500 times.