The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

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.

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.

However, the healthy inventory position of the textile industry lends support to the broadly expressed belief that improvement in that industry can be expected by the second half of 1961.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

During the Seventies the projections show a more pronounced rise to an annual rate of 1,338,000 in the second half of that decade.

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

At that time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism will be staged.

The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.

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.

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

Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

Wait for me, Laban, I'll be dressed in half a second ''!!

It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.

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

As a theologian Alain de Lille shared in the mystic reaction of the second half of the 12th century against the scholastic philosophy.

In the second half of 1226, Andrew lead his armies to Halych on the request of his youngest son, Andrew.

In the second half of 1231, Andrew led his armies to Halych and managed to ensure his youngest son's rule in the principality.

In the second half of the twentieth century, physics laboratories became able to produce nuclei of chemical elements with half-lives too short for an appreciable amount of them to exist at any time.

Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).

In the twentieth century Faroese became the official language and since the Faroes are a part of the Danish realm Danish is taught in schools as a compulsory second language.

Rioplatense Spanish, and particularly the speech of the city of Buenos Aires, has intonation patterns that resemble those of Italian languages, because Argentina has had a continuous large influx of Italian settlers since the second half of the nineteenth century: initially primarily from northern Italy ; then, since the beginning of the twentieth century, mostly from southern Italy.

In the second half of the twentieth century remote control locomotives started to enter service in switching operations, being remotely controlled by an operator outside of the locomotive cab.

Both were governed by both Dutch and British rulers and gained their independence in the second half of the twentieth century.

A survey of economists ranked Friedman as the second most popular economist of the twentieth century behind John Maynard Keynes, and The Economist described him as " the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century … possibly of all of it.

The scientific study of the nervous system has increased significantly during the second half of the twentieth century, principally due to advances in molecular biology, electrophysiology, and computational neuroscience.

In the second half of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century in Russia, painters such as Vasily Polenov, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin and I. E. Grabar were known for painting en plein air.

Since the second half of the twentieth century the associations of race with the ideologies and theories that grew out of the work of 19th-century anthropologists and physiologists has led to the use of the word race itself becoming problematic.

John Macquarrie, described in the Handbook of Anglican Theologians ( 1998 ) as " unquestionably Anglicanism's most distinguished systematic theologian in the second half of the twentieth century ," wrote that " there should be an end to proselytizing but that equally there should be no syncretism of the kind typified by the Baha ' i movement " ( p. 2 ).

Gustav Mahler introduced the practice, common until the middle of the twentieth century, of performing " Leonore No. 3 " between the two scenes of the second act.

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a leading Rabbinical authority for Orthodox Jewry of the second half of the twentieth century.

A second influx of Austronesian immigrants began in the early twentieth century under the Dutch and continues in the Indonesian era.

The coal and shipbuilding industry that once dominated the North East suffered a marked decline during the second half of the twentieth century.

The most revered actor of the second half of the twentieth century in Poland is generally considered to be Tadeusz Łomnicki, who died in 1992 of a heart attack while rehearsing King Lear.

A culture of violence rooted in the deep conflicts that split the countryside under Dutch rule would repeatedly erupt throughout the whole second half of the twentieth century.

On the other hand, at the turn of the twentieth century, new opportunities emerged for the manufacturing sector, due largely to electric power, one among the main innovations of the second industrial revolution.

Most Brethren were well-acculturated by the second half of the twentieth century.

During the twentieth century the department with its traditional industries was adversely impacted by two major world wars and even in the second half of the century experienced relatively low growth, the overall population remaining remarkably stable at around 340, 000 through the second half of the twentieth century, although industrial and commercial developments in the conurbation surrounding Angoulême have added some 10, 000 to the overall population during the first decade of the twenty-first century.