Then, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.

Juvenal, for example, was fond of occasionally creating verses that placed a sense break between the fourth and fifth foot ( instead of in the usual caesura positions ), but this technique —- known as the bucolic diaeresis -— did not catch on with other poets.

This small difference in the Sun's position against the stars causes any particular spot on the Earth's surface to catch up with ( and stand directly north or south of ) the Sun about 4 minutes later each day than it would if the Earth did not orbit ; our day is 24 hours long rather than the approximately 23 hour 56 minute sidereal day.

Clocks were manufactured to display this decimal time, but it did not catch on.

H. habilis probably did steal eggs from nests and may have been able to catch small game and weakened larger prey ( cubs and older animals ).

But the idea did not catch on in large numbers until the language Volapük was created in 1879.

The play was a true lateral ( the ball did not move forward or backward in the pass ), but because the receiver was a step ahead of the passer and reached back to catch the ball it gave the appearance of an illegal forward pass.

They coined their own term, " culturgen ", which did not catch on.

Yount later recalled at a Brewers banquet that he did not have to dive to catch the line drive hit by Murray but figured ending the game with a diving catch would be the icing on the cake for Nieves ' no-hitter.

This notation did not catch on, and would soon be obsolete.

Bradshaw never did see Swann's catch or the touchdown since Coles ' hit to Bradshaw's helmet knocked him out of the game with a head injury.

The term did not catch on in the literature, however, until Otto Seeck used it in 1897.

However, these first two themes did not catch the public's attention, and as Willkie's support sagged he turned to criticism of Roosevelt's lack of preparedness in military matters.

He did this in order to march on the Hungarian line of communications and catch them in their rear while they were raiding northeast of Augsburg.

However, he chose to fix the atomic weight of oxygen as 100, an innovation that did not catch on.

Later, an employee of Stoddard's American Music, Arthur S. Denny, attempted to market an " Improved Kalliope " in Europe, but it did not catch on.

The Europeans never did catch on and were frequently viewed by the natives as welchers on the implied pledge of alliance they'd entered into by accepting the gifts.

However, the show did not catch on and the second season was not commissioned.

The term did not catch on, and fell into disuse soon after its ( re ) introduction, so normally there is no confusion with the original usage.

" Johnston did catch a serious cold and died one month later of pneumonia.

A disadvantage to this mechanism was that chadless tape, once punched, did not roll up well, because the protruding flaps of paper would catch on the next layer of tape, so it could not be rolled up tightly.

Rail suburbs did not catch on in the area, however, and the community stagnated somewhat as automobiles replaced trains and streetcars as the primary means of commuting.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

He did not reply, going on toward the back.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

She was nude to the waist and her tumbled abundance of black hair did not conceal the knife slashes on her back.

It operated on, by and for the people individually just as did the Federal Constitution.

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

Under her father's influence it did not occur to Henrietta that she might write on subjects outside the Jewish field, but she did begin writing for other Anglo-Jewish papers and thus increased her output and her audience.

But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

Then she rounded on Weston and cried, `` You always did Wright's dirty work!!

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.

Finally, Mama did mention to Mrs. Coolidge that she felt sorry for the little dogs, and then Mrs. Coolidge decided to leave the radio on for them while she was gone, even though her husband disapproved of the waste of electricity.

We did not dare speak to so exalted a being, but Norton aimed his camera and shot him, so to speak, on the rise, the split second between the halt and the turn.

No load of sin had been laid on my shoulders, nor did earnest effort enable me to become conscious of one.

His soldiers on the whole did not celebrate so mildly.

I say the late seventeenth century because Racine ( whom Lessing did not really know ) stands on the far side of the chasm.

The power of every ecclesiastical organization has always rested on the miracle, and the clergy have always proved their divine commission as did Elijah ''.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.