School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

His first move was to send Hino to the village to spend a few days.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

Push-ups are essential, but few have the strength for them at first.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

In the first few experiments Af was passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and absorbed twice with 50 - 100 mg sweet clover tissue powder.

Emotional maturity is the result of many factors, the principal ones being the experiences of the first few years of the child's life.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

During the first few days of wearing the appliance and immediately following each adjustment, Susan may have a slight discomfort or soreness, but after a short time this will disappear.

Hudson's first error of the fourth voyage occurred only a few miles down the Thames.

But his first few days with Troop H were full of surprises, beginning with First Sergeant Robert Early.

wetting a wart with this saliva on wakening the first thing in the morning was supposed to cause it to disappear after only a few treatments, and strangely enough many warts did just that.

I have previously described how, during the week of the murder, Bridget spent the first few hot days scrubbing and ironing clothes.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

Very few committees ever looked past the first few photos.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

He realizes after the first few cases that the disease is bubonic plague and is aware of the seriousness of the situation.

They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.

The national currency, the dram, suffered hyperinflation for the first few years after its introduction in 1993.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era, I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization.

Similar literary exercises were the common doings of a Christian humanist of the first two decades of the sixteenth century.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

Their second title, and the first to be received through a championship game, came in, two decades before the first Super Bowl game was played.

For the first few decades of indirect fire, the firing data were often calculated by the observer who then adjusted the fall of shot onto the target.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

Many of his works were published posthumously in the first decades after his death.

In baseball's earlier decades, a runner on second base could " steal " first base, perhaps with the intention of drawing a throw that might allow a runner on third to score ( a tactic famously employed by Germany Schaefer ).

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was not fully appreciated for another four decades.

In France, a steady linking of all the river systems — Rhine, Rhône, Saône and Seine — and the North Sea was boosted in 1879 by the establishment of the Freycinet gauge, which specified the minimum size of locks so that canal traffic doubled in the first decades of the 20th century.

The White Sox were a strong team during their first two decades, winning the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed " the Hitless Wonders ", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

After losing a dismal 103 games in 1966, the Cubs brought home consecutive winning records in ' 67 and ' 68, marking the first time a Cub team had accomplished that feat in over two decades.

Although they had their best season in decades at 92 – 70, they lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place while the Mets exploded past them by winning 39 of their last 50 games.

They developed in the socio-economic and political cleavages that existed during the first three decades of the 19th century, and had the support of the business, professional and established Church ( Anglican ) elites in Ontario and to a lesser extent in Quebec.

As the law of corporations was articulated by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Marshall, over the first several decades of the new American state, emphasis fell, in a way which seems natural to us today, upon commercial corporations.

The first decades after the Nationalists moved the seat of government to the province of Taiwan are associated with the organized effort to resist Communism known as " the " White Terror ", during which about 140, 000 Taiwanese were imprisoned for their real or perceived opposition to the Kuomintang.

This was actually the formal name of a person, used by older people to address him, and the one he would use the most in the first decades of his life ( as the person grew older, younger generations would have to use one of the courtesy names instead ).

The 2011 one being the first post-war census in three decades.

Guest's biggest role of the first two decades of his career is likely that of Nigel Tufnel in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.

The country's first democratic elections in four decades were held on 30 July 2006 with a run-off between current president Kabila and his rival Bemba held on 29 October 2006.

Day released My Heart in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2011, her first new album in nearly two decades, since the release of The Love Album, which, although recorded in 1967, was not released until 1994.