No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

`` We are menaced for the first time in the history of the Republic by the open and unblushing effort of a multi-millionaire to purchase the Presidential nomination.

Rangoni's first entrance is a musical shock, a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to what has preceded it.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

Charlie Marble was back and forth on several occasions, first to confer with Andy on the advisability of cancelling the Las Vegas engagement -- they decided it was wise -- and later to announce that a prominent comedian, also an agency client, had agreed to fill the casino's open date.

Dick McAuliffe cracked the first of his two doubles against Lefty Don Rudolph to open the Bear's attack.

The acoustics of the small hall had been misgauged by the artists, so that for the first half of the program, when the piano was partially open, Mr. Jenni's playing was too loud.

His first thought was that Mrs. Kirby, in her mania for color, had dyed a cat and that cat had somehow managed to open the refrigerator door and climb in ; ;

Eventually they built the first perfusion pump, an invention instrumental to the development of organ transplantation and open heart surgery.

AES is available in many different encryption packages, and is the first publicly accessible and open cipher approved by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) for top secret information when used in an NSA approved cryptographic module ( see Security of AES, below ).

* 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

Carnegie helped open the rail lines into Washington D. C. that the rebels had cut ; he rode the locomotive pulling the first brigade of Union troops to reach Washington D. C.

The first mechanically-propelled 2-wheel vehicle may have been built by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, in 1839, although the claim is open to dispute.

In 1931, the castle gardens were first opened to the public, and are now open daily between April and the end of July, after which the Queen arrives for her annual stay.

He tinformed Olga Carlisle that, at the end of The Blind Beauty, he wished to depict " the birth of an enlightened and affluent middle class, open to occidental influences, progressive, intelligent, artistic ..." However, Pasternak fell ill with terminal lung cancer before he could complete the first play of the trilogy.

The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything.

The first new brewery was opened in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, and was the first of nine to open over the course of the next 25 years.

The psychological significance was that this was the first open field battle won by the royal forces, so it increased the morale of the Polish forces and lowered the morale of the Teutonic Knights.

The office originally granted the holder the ability to speak first at session on the topic presented by the presiding magistrate, but eventually gained the power to open and close the senate sessions, decide the agenda, decide where the session should take place, impose order and other rules of the session, meet in the name of the senate with embassies of foreign countries, and write in the name of the senate letters and dispatches.

Intuitively, the process can be pictured as follows: first shrink the real line to the open interval (- π, π ) on the x-axis ; then bend the ends of this interval upwards ( in positive y-direction ) and move them towards each other, until you get a circle with one point ( the topmost one ) missing.

Rockies first baseman Andrés Galarraga won the batting title, hitting. 370 for the season after Manager Don Baylor persuaded Galarraga to change from a standard batting stance into an open one in which he squarely faced the pitcher, allowing him to see incoming pitches properly.

The rules committee considered widening the playing field to " open up " the game, but Harvard Stadium ( the first large permanent football stadium ) had recently been built at great expense ; it would be rendered useless by a wider field.

The building was dedicated in 1954 and is possibly the first financial institution in America to use glass walls and an open floor plan.

In the 1920 presidential election they had that right and many of them did vote for the first time.

That same year, first parliamentary and presidential elections were held.

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

Alcott voted in a presidential election for the first time in 1860.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

Déby won the country ’ s first multi-party presidential elections with support in the second round from opposition leader Kebzabo, defeating General Kamougue ( leader of the 1975 coup against Tombalbaye ).

Cameroon's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.

It set the first eight year presidential term for Pinochet, with a plebiscite in the eighth year, in which only one candidate, nominated by the Junta, would be accepted or not.

On October 17, 2008, Devo performed a special concert at the Akron Civic Theater, their first in Akron since 1978, to promote Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

" The First Ladies " explores the unofficial but important position of first lady and the ways that different women have shaped the role to make their own contributions to the presidential administrations and the nation.

* 1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.

Vinicio Cerezo, a civilian politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democracy Party, won the first election held under the new constitution with almost 70 % of the vote, and took office on January 14, 1986.

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

The order was made by a presidential decree on state television and is the first major diplomatic move made by the new leader.

In 1994, 20 years after independence from Portugal, the country's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held.

In June 2005, presidential elections were held for the first time since the coup that deposed Ialá.

The October 1923 Honduran presidential elections and the subsequent political and military conflicts provided the first real tests of these new treaty arrangements.

The method chosen by Carías to extend his term of office was to call a constituent assembly that would write a new constitution and select the individual to serve for the first presidential term under that document.

Inaugurated on January 27, 2010, Pepe Lobo and his administration focused throughout the first year for foreign recognition of presidential legitimacy and Hondura's reinstitution in the OAS.

Preliminary talks to set up conditions for official negotiations began between leading negotiators from both parties on July 10, and on July 22, the three party leaders met for the first time in Harare to express their support for a negotiated settlement of disputes arising out of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

The Reformasi era following Suharto's resignation, has led to a strengthening of democratic processes, including a regional autonomy program, the secession of East Timor, and the first direct presidential election in 2004.

In 1870 Charles Francis built the first memorial presidential library in the United States, to honor his father.