Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

In fact, modern scholarly opinion in the main has not retreated all the way back to the destructive scepticism of the first half of the nineteenth century.

That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

But he painted some of the boldest and most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its fascination.

He has become in this half century the grand old man of American history.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

These local variations were to become ever sharper in the next century and a half.

the pottery of the first half of the eighth century is commonly called Ripe Geometric.

`` The attempt to save the Square's historic value '', he declares, `` came half a century too late ''.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

It is to this same tradition that most of the creative figures in the last century and a half of American theology also belong.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

And this is why so many scientists a half a century ago were agnostics or atheists.

Significantly, the initiation and leadership of a major proportion of the reform movements, especially those in the first half of the nineteenth century, came from men and women of New England birth or parentage and from either Trinitarian or Unitarian Congregationalism.

The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.

The paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrations all reflect the manners, costumes, and mores of America in the first half of the present century.

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

Kurosawa has commented on the lasting sense of loss he felt at his brother's death and the chapter of his autobiography that describes it — written nearly half a century after the event — is titled, " A Story I Don't Want to Tell.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

: Leucippus ( first half of 5th century BC )

With the Academies in Europe ( second half of 16th century ) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.

Less than half the sum has been spent, since the Interama board pinched pennies during that period of painstaking negotiations.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

it is also their mathematical mean, since it is equal to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which equal 10.

This has led to a dramatic depletion in numbers since the latter half of the 19th century, and ' ormering ' is now strictly regulated in order to preserve stocks.

This star was seen to possess an apparent motion similar to that which would be a consequence of the nutation of the Earth's axis ; but since its declination varied only one half as much as in the case of γ Draconis, it was obvious that nutation did not supply the requisite solution.

Nearly a half century since its premiere, the series remains in syndication on MeTV.

The fact that in equivalent baseband models of communication systems, the signal spectrum consists of both negative and positive frequencies, can lead to confusion about bandwidth, since they are sometimes referred to only by the positive half, and one will occasionally see expressions such as, where is the total bandwidth ( i. e. the maximum passband bandwidth of the carrier-modulated RF signal and the minimum passband bandwidth of the physical passband channel ), and is the positive bandwidth ( the baseband bandwidth of the equivalent channel model ).

The Orioles finished the first half of the 2012 season with a winning record for only the second time since 1998, with a record of 45-40 before the All-Star break.

In the century and a half since then, taxonomists have increasingly worked to make the taxonomic system reflect evolution.

It originally ranged primarily in the western half of North America, but it has adapted readily to the changes caused by human presence and, since the early 19th century, has been steadily and dramatically extending its range.

The film is divided into two parts: the first half focuses on the hopes and idealism before May 1968, and the second half on the disillusion and disappointments since those events.

Ever since the shift to the three segment format, it has been a running joke to refer to the last segment as " the third half " of the program.

Carly Fiorina, initially seen as HP's savior when she was hired as CEO back in 1999, had seen the company's stock price drop to less than half since she assumed the position, and her job was said to be on shakey ground before the merger announcement.

In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres.

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

Roughly half of these advisors have since died, including some of the Outline's chief architects: Rene Dubos ( d. 1982 ), Loren Eiseley ( d. 1977 ), Harold D. Lasswell ( d. 1978 ), Mark Van Doren ( d. 1972 ), Peter Ritchie Calder ( d. 1982 ) and Mortimer J. Adler ( d. 2001 ).

This kind of medieval mappa mundi illustrates only the reachable side of a spherical Earth | round Earth, since it was thought that no one could cross a clime | torrid clime near the equator to the other half of the globe.

All muzzleloaders manufactured since the second half of the 19th century use percussion caps except those built as replicas of the flintlock or earlier small arms.

Patsy Custis's death in 1773 from epilepsy enabled Washington to pay off his British creditors, since half of her inheritance passed to him.

A few of Rossini's operas remained popular throughout his lifetime and continuously since his demise ; others were resurrected from semi-obscurity in the last half of the 20th century, during the so-called " bel canto revival.

United States undergraduate physics curriculum, since many students who plan to continue to graduate school apply during the first half of the fourth year.