That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

It, along with Nara, was untouched by the war -- and is now a beautiful example of the loveliness of prewar Japan.

The total of German war dead was 8 % to 10 % out of a prewar population of 69, 000, 000, or between 5. 5 million and 7 million people.

Food production in 1946 – 48 was only two-thirds of the prewar level, while grain and meat shipments – which usually supplied 25 % of the food – no longer arrived from the East.

Al-Libi has been identified as the primary source of faulty prewar intelligence regarding chemical weapons training between Iraq and al Qaeda that was used by the Bush Administration to justify the invasion of Iraq.

His prewar writing career was not mentioned in the book's publicity, and people were allowed to assume that it was a first novel from a previously unknown writer.

In June 1982, a Village Voice report by Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith accused Kosiński of plagiarism, claiming that much of his work was derivative of prewar books unfamiliar to English readers, and that Being There was a plagiarism of Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — a 1932 Polish bestseller by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.

Food production was only two-thirds of the prewar level in 1946-48, while normal grain and meat shipments no longer arrived from the East.

Another estimate of Portuguese casualties by the US War Dept in 1924 was 7, 222 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 220, 000, 82, 000 caused by food shortages and 138, 000 by the Spanish Flu

He was educated at Reed College, studying under David H. French, and graduated in 1950 after a stint in prewar Korea.

Farms were in disrepair, and the prewar stock of horses, mules and cattle was much depleted ; two-fifths of the South's livestock had been killed.

Bushidō in the prewar period was often emperor-centered and placed much greater value on the virtues of loyalty and self-sacrifice than did many Tokugawa-era interpretations.

Although production of prewar models continued, a new model, the Tatra T600 Tatraplan was designed — the name celebrating the new Communist planned economy and the aeroplane inspiration ( Colloq.

A fair successor to the prewar cars, it was also driven by a rear-mounted, air-cooled V8 and had the company's trademark aerodynamic styling.

For an extended period of time — prewar through the early 1950s — the Pontiac was a quiet, solid car, but not especially powerful.

Partially because of this, the situation in most Republican-held areas slowly began to revert largely to its prewar conditions ; in many ways the " revolution " was over well before the triumph of the Franco forces in early 1939.

According to the 1921 census, the town had a Jewish community consisting of 757 people, or 61. 9 percent of its total population It was a typical shtetl, a small town with a very significant Jewish community, one of many such towns in prewar Poland.

The town was rebuilt, but never reached its prewar glory or population.

However, the firm was given the allocation at cost of a Glasgow bookseller and occasional prewar publisher, Alan Jackson.

This was used for 1944 – 46-dated cents, after which the prewar composition was resumed.

Douglas Jardine, the English captain ( and, like all England captains of the prewar era, a " gentleman amateur " leading a team partly made up of working-class professionals ), determined that Bradman was vulnerable to short-pitched bowling, and adopted " fast leg theory ".

During prewar and early war field exercises, it was noticed that these troops, when issued the rifle, often found their individual weapon too heavy and cumbersome.