The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

I have just seen Debonnie and Prompt Time work a mile in 2:34, last quarter in :35.3.

With the March pickup, dealers are optimistic that the April-June quarter will equal or top last year.

Steam powered conveyor lifts began being used for loading and unloading ships some time in the last quarter of the 19th century .< ref name =" Wells1890 ">.

Abu Salih the Armenian, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, makes one early reference to this belief that they possessed the Ark.

Even in the last pre-crisis year, 2008, the Bulgarian economy was growing rapidly at 6. 0 %, despite significantly slowing down in the last quarter.

The global financial crisis started to apply downward pressure on growth and employment in the last quarter of 2008.

Blake further argued that Disraeli's imperialism " decisively orientated the Conservative party for many years to come, and the tradition which he started was probably a bigger electoral asset in winning working-class support during the last quarter of the century than anything else ".

Bouldering's documented origins may be found in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy in the last quarter of the 19th century.

It is unknown when Habakkuk lived and preached, but the reference to the rise and advance of the Chaldeans in 1: 6-11 places him in the middle to last quarter of the 7th century BC.

To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 meters or a quarter mile or less and must last for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more.

Although Croatian economy had showed signs of recovery in the last quarter of 2010 and officially exited recession in the first quarter of 2011, economic indicators suggest that the recovery may be sluggish with the economy expected to grow by 1. 5-1. 8 % in 2011.

During the last quarter of the 19th century many experiments were done to determine what cathode rays were.

In the last quarter of the 8th century BC there is a steady increase in artifacts found at the settlement site in Delphi, which was a new, post-Mycenaean settlement of the late 9th century.

Elf-shot ( or elf-bolt or elf-arrow ) is a word found in Scotland and Northern England, first attested in a manuscript of about the last quarter of the 16th century.

In the last quarter of the 20th century, the base was used to house Cuban and Haitian refugees intercepted on the high seas.

Anagnostis Agelarakis based on recent archaeo-anthropological discoveries of the earliest monumental polyandrion ( communal burial of male warriors ) at Paros Island in Greece, unveils a last quarter of the 8th century BC date for a hoplitic phalangeal military organization.

Samhain was the first and the most important of the four quarter days in the medieval Irish and Scottish calendar and, falling on the last day of autumn, it was a time for stock-taking and preparation for the cold winter months ahead.

The $ 512 billion economy expanded 4. 4 % in the first quarter from a year earlier and last month, the IMF revised its 2009 forecast for the country to 3-4 % from 2. 5 %.

This has led many scholars to conclude that the appellation Catholic Church with its ecclesial connotation may have been in use as early as the last quarter of the 1st century.

As the power of the Iroquois waned during the last quarter of the 17th century, several other, mainly Anishinaabe Native American tribes, displaced them from the territories they claimed on the north shore of the lake.

Below one fills in one-quarter of the rows with T, then one-quarter with F, then one-quarter with T and the last quarter with F. The next column alternates between true and false for each eighth of the rows, then sixteenths, and so on, until the last propositional constant varies between T and F for each row.

If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.

Fiscal year taxpayers have until the last day of the first month following the close of the fiscal year ( farmers until the 15th day of the 2d month ).

He bogeyed the 15th by missing a short putt and finally scrambled through the last three holes without further mishap for a 2-over-par 74 and a 72-hole total of 280.

Benjamin, their eighth child, was Josiah Franklin's 15th child and tenth and last son.

In March 2012, Britannica's president, Jorge Cauz, announced that it would not produce any new print editions of the encyclopaedia, with the 2010 15th edition being the last.

The last flight out for official personnel was June 15th, 2004.

In the last few decades of the 15th century, in order to play Renaissance polyphony on a single instrument, lutenists gradually abandoned the quill in favor of plucking the instrument with the fingertips.

* 1867 – The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-established civil government of Japan

* November 22 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan ( b. 1837 )

Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last of the Tokugawa shoguns loses control to the Meiji Emperor.

* October 28 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate ( d. 1913 )

" The letter of 15th September, 1924, which has been attributed to me, is from the first to the last word, a forgery.

It is estimated that at most, the last true Assassin probably died in the early 15th century, prompting the brotherhood to fade into history as a result of lost tradition, customs, and ideals.

The Welsh launched several revolts against English rule, the last significant one being that led by Owain Glyndŵr in the early 15th century.

The wines of Aix were originally planted by veterans of the Roman legions in the 1st century BC, and were promoted in the 15th century by René I of Naples, the last ruler of Provence.

To promote the new album, Prince was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on February 4, 2006, seventeen years after his last SNL appearance on the 15th anniversary special and nearly 25 years since his first appearance on a regular episode in 1981, making Prince the only SNL musical guest to have that long of a gap between appearances.

However, there is no credible evidence that chastity belts existed before the 15th century ( more than one hundred years after the last Crusade ), and their main period of apparent use falls within the Renaissance rather than the Middle Ages.

The last recorded coronation ceremony in what would become Spain occurred in the 15th century ; since then, the monarchs were not crowned, but proclaimed.

In 1960, Priestley published Literature and Western Man, a 500-page survey of Western literature in all its genres, including Russia and the United States but excluding Asia, from the second half of the 15th century to the present ( the last author discussed is Thomas Wolfe ).

The domain was finally extinguished in the 15th century with the death of the last princess of Baux, Alice of Baux.

Rocky finally takes out Drago in the 15th and last round to the shock of the Soviet Politburo watching the fight.

( also known as Keiki ; October 28, 1837 – November 22, 1913 ) was the 15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.

This market had been emerging over the last half of the 15th century in Italy, and was much better established in the Netherlands, but Giorgione was the first major Italian painter to concentrate his work on it to such an extent — indeed soon after his death the size of paintings began to increase with the prosperity and palaces of the patrons.

In the last 30 years of the 15th century it passed through 15 Latin editions.

The club's form in the 2007 – 08 season was better than during their last season in the Premier League, as they finished 15th with 39 points.