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.

Twentieth century revivals include Robert B. Mantell's 1915 production ( the last production to be staged on Broadway ) and Peter Brook's 1945 staging, featuring Paul Scofield as the Bastard.

Usimare Ramesses III ( also written Ramses and Rameses ) was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty and is considered to be the last great New Kingdom king to wield any substantial authority over Egypt.

* December 3, 1967: The Twentieth Century Limited makes last run.

Although Qing is the last Chinese Dynasty, this did not mean that Classical Chinese poetry ended co-terminously with the end of the imperial period, indeed Mao Zedong of the Communist Party of China was a major exponent and practitioner of Classical Chinese poetry well into the Twentieth Century.

He was the last strong General of the Galactic Empire, Commander of the legendary Twentieth Fleet, who eventually came to be known as " the Last of the Imperials ", and earned this title well.

The last " great " pharaoh from the New Kingdom is widely regarded to be Ramesses III, a Twentieth Dynasty pharaoh who reigned several decades after Ramesses II.

He served from February 27, 1822 to March 3, 1829, during the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses ; during the last three sessions, he was the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture.

That same goal happened to be the 1, 000th goal in the history of the Fédération Française de Football, and the last World Cup goal of the Twentieth Century.

Usermare Akhenamun Ramesses VIII ( also written Ramses and Rameses ) or Ramesses Sethherkhepshef Meryamun (' Set is his Strength, beloved of Amun ') ( at 1130-1129 BC, or simply 1130 BC as Krauss and Warburton date his reign ), was the seventh Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt and was one of the last surviving sons of Ramesses III.

Convinced Temple would successfully move from child star to teenage actress, Zanuck declined a substantial offer from MGM to star Temple as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and cast her instead in Susannah of the Mounties, her last money-maker for Twentieth Century-Fox.

In Twentieth Century Fox's 1997 animated feature, " Anastasia ", the Catherine Palace is depicted inaccurately as the home of the last imperial family.

Cyana Von Ray Morgan, who is Lorq ’ s aunt and a curator at humanity ’ s largest museum, remarks that one-fourth of the displays at her museum are devoted to the Twentieth century, much the way major museums in Europe and the United States for the last hundred or so years might seem — to some — to have devoted a disproportionate amount of their space to Greek and Roman artifacts.

* The last words attributed to the Israeli national hero Yosef Trumpeldor-" It is good to die for our country " ( טוב למות בעד ארצנו ) are considered to be derived from Horace's, and were a frequently used Zionist slogan in the earlier part of the Twentieth Century.

The story is set in a " Year 5 ", generally taken to be year 5 of the so-called Renaissance of Pharaoh Ramesses XI, the tenth and last ruler of the Twentieth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

Over the last quarter of the Twentieth Century P & O diversified into construction management ( through the Bovis companies, which it owned from 1974 to 1999 ), property investment and development, and a variety of service businesses including exhibition and conference centres, but most of these activities were disposed of following the company's decision in March 1999 to concentrate on maritime and transport.

This is the last film that Otto Preminger would make as a director-for-hire for Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s.

However, through its application in the design of some of the last century's most beautifully proportioned and harmonic buildings ( Le Corbusier: Architect of the Twentieth Century, Kenneth Frampton, 2002 ) Le Corbusier's work strongly disputes this.

Before losing itself in the sands of the 19th Century, the grand stream of Italian Renaissance architectural decoration made a last appearance in the Brumidi frescos of the Capitol Rotunda in Washington.

At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.

It is primarily based on the Civil code of 1855, derived from Spanish law and subsequent codes influenced by European law of the last half of the 19th Century.

This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.

For technical reasons connected with their publication in three installments ( the publisher of the third and last installment seems to have been unwilling to start it in the middle of a " Century ," or book of 100 verses ), the last fifty-eight quatrains of the seventh " Century " have not survived into any extant edition.

With the succession of his sons, Severus founded the Severan dynasty, the last dynasty of the empire before the Crisis of the Third Century.

The last Cuneiform scripts in Akkadian discovered thus far date from the 1st Century AD.

20th Century Fox made the last pre-war military film about the U. S. Marine Corps To The Shores of Tripoli.

This is the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th Century.

Jerry Pournelle's " CoDominium " future history assumed that the Cold War would end with the USA and Soviet Union establishing a co-rule of the world, the CoDominium of the title, which would last into the 22nd Century — rather than the Soviet Union collapsing in 1991.

This was the last film for 20th Century Pictures before it merged with Fox Film Corporation to form 20th Century Fox

Harold Macmillan was the last British Prime Minister born in the 19th Century or the reign of Queen Victoria, and the last to have served in World War I.

Since the start of the 21st Century, International / Specialised Expositions may occur between Universal Expositions and last from six weeks to three months in duration, i. e. Expo 2008 in Zaragoza ( Spain ), Expo 2012 in Yeosu ( South Korea ).

Though the United States steel making industry has gone through a decline through the last half of the 20th Century, U. S. Steel's Fairfield Works continues to be a major employer, though not in the levels seen around the 1950s.

The last two big snow events to affect Troy were part of the 2010 Southern Snow event and 1993 Storm of the Century.

During the last half of the 19th Century, East Central Indiana consisted mostly of rural farming communities, including Hartford City.

According to the records of the Maryland Historical Trust, the “ Hamilton House ” was relocated from Lot 74 to Pennsylvania in the last quarter of the 20th Century.

In the last decade of the 19th Century, the community of High Shoals became totally-owned by High Shoals Mills, a textile company founded by Charlotte, North Carolina industrialist Daniel A. Tompkins.

* Menominee River Century Bike Ride, which attracts hundreds of bicyclists the last weekend in June