" They're the kind of twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, Jack Kerouac's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 1920s, ' 30s and ' 40s.

During the Cretan summer, average temperatures reach the high 20s-low 30s Celsius ( mid 80s to mid 90s Fahrenheit ), with maxima touching the upper 30s-mid 40s.

It belongs to the swing family of American vernacular dances that arose in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.

( A well-known example is the " initials " used by Forrest J. Ackerman in his fanzines from the 30s and 40s, namely " 4sj ".

The very earliest accounts of belief are contained in these texts, such as early Christian creeds and hymns, as well as accounts of the Passion, the empty tomb, and Resurrection appearances ; some of these are dated to the 30s or 40s CE, originating within the Jerusalem Church.

In jazz big bands, popular during the 30s and 40s, the guitarist is considered an integral part of the rhythm section ( guitar, drums and bass ).

Captive killer whale lifespans are typically significantly shorter, usually less than 25 years ; however, numerous individuals are alive in their 30s, and a few have reached their 40s.

During the late 1920s, ' 30s, and ' 40s, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein's formalism was developed by a group of philosophers in Vienna and Berlin, who formed the Vienna Circle and Berlin Circle into a doctrine known as logical positivism ( or logical empiricism ).

Record sales picked up appreciably by the late 30s and early 40s, with greater improvements in fidelity and more money to be spent.

She displayed a number of artworks in exhibitions during the 30s and early 40s, and her first solo exhibition was held in 1943.

A rare form of this disease, known as Adult-Onset or Late-Onset Tay – Sachs disease, usually has its first symptoms during the 30s or 40s.

Thus, what came out in the media: from newspapers, magazines, TV, and the movies, was a product of the stereotypes of the 30s and 40s — though garbled — of a cross between a 1920s Greenwich Village bohemian artist and a Bop musician, whose visual image was completed by mixing in Daliesque paintings, a beret, a Vandyck beard, a turtleneck sweater, a pair of sandals, and set of bongo drums.

Sheep that had been bought at from 30s to 40s per head are now sold at less than 2s.

The approaching Zulu force was vastly larger ; the uDloko, uThulwana, inDlondo amabutho ( regiments ) of married men in their 30s and 40s and the inDlu-yengwe ibutho of young unmarried men mustered 3, 000 to 4, 000 warriors, none of them engaged during the battle at Isandlwana.

The Walton family characters would have been in their 30s – 40s by then, as well as John and Olivia being in their 60s.

Thousands were employed to build boxes for shipping fruit and vegetables in the 1920s, 30s and 40s.

Average temperatures vary between 54 and 76 F ( 12 and 24 C ) with highs reaching the upper 80s F ( lower 30s C ) and winter lows in the 40s F ( below 10 C ).

Brandon's winters sometimes have low temperatures in the 30s for more than 4 days while Tampa can have low temperatures in the 40s and 50s in that same period of time.

In January, the morning low temperatures are often in the 30s and 40s, but the cloudless sunny weather typically warms the dry air up to near 70 by the afternoon.

From the ' 20s and ' 30s through the ' 40s the drugstore was owned by " Bud " Windsor.

Somerset's climate is warm during summer when temperatures tend to be in the 80's and mild during winter when temperatures tend to be in the 30s and 40s.

With an elevation of 1, 400 feet, Marion's climate is fairly warm during summer, when temperatures tend to be in the 80s and 90s, and moderately cold during the winter, with temperatures typically in the 30s and 40s.

However, as the park grew it became a small amusement park where local people could enjoy rides, a large swimming pool built in the ' 30s, music ( including string bands in the ' 40s ) and as the hosting ground for many company picnics.

It ranges from the 50s and 40s with lows of 30s.

Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).

Donald Campbell was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, and his second wife, Dorothy Evelyn née Whittall.

Later, in the 1920s and 30s, the eugenic policy of sterilizing certain mental patients was implemented in a variety of other countries, including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, and Sweden ,< ref name =" wsws ">

The union was a difficult one, since Mary was already in her late 30s and Philip was a Catholic and a foreigner, and so not very welcome in England.

This was later rejected in the 1820s and 30s following more refined measurements of atomic mass, notably by Jöns Jacob Berzelius, which revealed in particular that the atomic mass of chlorine was 35. 45, which was incompatible with the hypothesis.

Lin, having grown up as an Asian minority, has said that she " didn't even realize " she was Chinese until later in life, and that it was not until her 30s that she had a desire to understand her cultural background.

He was somewhat older, in his early 30s, than the others.

The height of the machines using Motorola CPUs was reached with the IRIS 3000 series ( somewhere around 1989, models 3010 / 3020 / 3030 and 3110 / 3115 / 3120 / 3130, the 30s both being full-size rack machines ).

Gale was early-to-mid 30s during her tenure, in contrast to female characters in similar series who tended to be younger.

The abolition of slavery in America led to the breakdown of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which was already suffering from the abolition of slavery in most of Europe in the late 1820s and ' 30s.

However, as the economy was the main issue, Bush's campaign floundered across the nation, even in strongly Republican areas, and Clinton maintained leads with over 50 percent of the vote nationwide consistently, while Bush typically saw numbers in the upper 30s.

( Decades later, the first major book about ' 30s gangsters was titled The Dillinger Days.

In the early 30s Tolkien decided that the proto-language of the Elves was Valarin, the tongue of the gods or Valar: " The language of the Elves derived in the beginning from the Valar, but they change it even in the learning, and moreover modified and enriched it constantly at all times by their own invention.

Although this was an oft-used layout throughout the 1920s and 30s, it was superseded soon enough, by improvements in structural design that made monoplane designs more practicable.

Additionally, he is reported to be in his late 30s, whereas the narrator of The IPCRESS File was born in 1922 or 1923 ( making him in his 50s ), and thus implying that this protagonist is different from that of the earlier novels.

Starting in the mid 1920s and running into the late 30s in the United States, Sikorsky produced an extensive family of amphibians ( the S-34, S-36, S-38, S-39, S-41, S-43 ) that were widely used for exploration and as airliners around the globe, helping pioneer many overseas air routes where the larger flying boats could not go, and helping to popularize amphibians in the US.

In the 30s and 40s, the word was widely used in the propaganda of the ' Third Reich '.

These were widely used on race tracks throughout Europe and the US in the 1920s and 30s.

One of the most popular petrol engines was the 1. 5-litre four-cylinder Type 4ED engine, widely used by Frazer Nash and Lea-Francis during the 1920s and 30s.