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In recent years, Cogswell's short story " The Wall Around the World " ( 1962 ) was rediscovered and received much attention, due especially to the many similarities between its protagonist and Harry Potter: Like Potter, Cogswell's Porgie is an orphan boy living with his aunt and uncle, who learns magic in school, flies on a broomstick and is constantly persecuted by a nasty cousin ( who is in this case, however, part of the magical community ).
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In recent years he has traveled widely in Europe, conducting in Italy, France, Austria, and Switzerland.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.
In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.
Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.
In recent years, we have come increasingly to recognize that ideas have a history and that not the least important chapters of this history have to do with thematic or conceptual aspects of literature and the arts, although these aspects should be studied in conjunction with the history of philosophy, of religion, and of the sciences.
In recent years, however, a wind of change seems to be blowing through early English historical circles.
Citing the advances of Communist power in recent years, Sir Anthony observed: `` This very grave state of affairs will continue until the free nations accept together the reality of the danger that confronts them and unite their policies and resources to meet it ''.
-- I, too, congratulate the American Legion, of which I am proud to have been a member for more than 40 years, on the recent state convention.
It occurred to me that you might be interested in some thoughts which I expressed privately in recent years, in the hope of clearing up a certain confusion in the public mind about what foreign policy is all about and what it means, and of developing a certain compassion for those who are carrying such responsibilities inside Government.
On this basis, our already substantial budget for research and development has been further increased in recent years in order to finance the continuing engineering and design work essential to Leesona's future growth in sales and earnings.
As in many other industries, rising costs and intense competition, both domestic and foreign, have exerted increasing pressure on earnings of the textile industry in recent years.
Factory stocks in recent months have been the highest they have been in three years, while those at retail are below 1959.
For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;
In recent years many counties and the U. S. Forest Service have taken aerial photos which show features in detail and are very good for planning use.
There has been an intensification of price-consciousness in recent years ; ;
and much more commonly in recent years, the engineer who found that other duties interfered with -- or eliminated -- his engineering contributions.
In recent years gagwriters have discovered this brand of blunder and thus the misplaced modifier has acquired a new habitat in the gagline.
In recent years, this burden ( which includes allowances for revenue deficiencies in the passenger business and in less-than-carload freight traffic!!
With the development of nuclear technology, isotopic materials, and machine radiation sources in recent years, the possibilities of applying ionizing radiation to the preservation of foods attracted the attention of investigators in the United States and throughout the world.
Contrary to the thinking of 30 to 40 years ago, when all malocclusion was blamed on some unfortunate habit, recent studies show that most tooth irregularity has at least its beginning in hereditary predisposition.
One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.
The other charge was that America's political position in the world has progressively deteriorated in recent years.
Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.
The great advances made in recent years in Communist strength and in our own capacity to destroy require an educated citizenry in the Western world.
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In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.
For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.
Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.
Climate change may occur over long and short timescales from a variety of factors ; recent warming is discussed in global warming.
The most recent, the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, which occurred approximately 65. 5 million years ago ( Ma ), was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species in a geologically short period of time.
Includes a short history of the Grand Guignol genre and photographs of recent productions
Nevertheless, until comparatively recent years, a short stroll up the Old Finglas Road brought you rapidly into open countryside.
On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.
In recent years the rivalry with Minnesota has become more prominent, with the Twins ' consistent standings atop the division, as well as the relatively short drive between the two clubs in which many fans from Minnesota make the trip and heavily populate Royals home games versus the Twins.
IT contractors are selected for their relevant experience, supported by recent references, and are usually taken on for short periods ( up to 6 months at a time, with renewals if competent ).
" In a similar fashion to Jonze's recent work with Arcade Fire, he has directed both " short and epic-length videos " to partner with the single.
In its early decades, the magazine sometimes published two or even three short stories a week, but in recent years the pace has remained steady at one story per issue.
During the first Peel series, each episode would end with a short, comedic scene of the duo leaving the scene of their most recent adventure in some unusual vehicle.
Regular plenary sessions of the General Assembly in recent years have initially been scheduled to be held over the course of just three months, however additional work loads have extended these sessions to last on through just short of the next session.
Singer worked either as an executive producer or producer on eight of Herzog ’ s documentaries starting with “ Lessons of Darkness ” in 1991, “ The Wild Blue Yonder ” – won the International Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, 2006 and including two of the most recent “ La Boheme, short ”, 2009, and “ Into the Abyss ”/” Death Row ”, 2011.
The most recent short film A Matter of Loaf and Death was likewise nominated in 2010, but lost to Logorama.
In the most recent short he is a baker.
An ' Iced capp ' or ' Icecap ', short for ' Iced Cappuccino ', has in recent years become a very widespread summer beverage in Canada.
In recent years, an unofficial short version of the anthem is sung during Belgian National Day on July 21 yearly, combining the words of the anthem in all three of Belgium's official languages, similar to the bilingual version of O Canada.
In recent years, a controversy has developed between supporters of short and long format three-day events.
However, this claim has not held true in several recent studies that compared injuries sustained in classic and in short format competitions over equivalent courses.
A 2009 book Pioneers of Industrial Organization traces the development of the field from Adam Smith to recent times and includes dozens of short biographies of major figures in Europe and North America who contributed to the growth and development of the discipline.
It also had a short lived ( 7 episode ) online television show, prior to the recent surge in videocasting and podcasting, called Seattle Wireless TV.
In recent years, some schools have eliminated skirts and kilts, in favour of dress pants for girls, or replaced skirts with culottes or a garment called a skort which is a skirt that has an attached short on the inside for modesty.
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