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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.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
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.
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
only -- it did not.
Not only did the ideal entrepreneur not produce the greatest good for the greatest number, he ended by destroying himself, by giving birth to monopoly capitalism.
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.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.
This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.
Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.
He could only watch with a sort of gentle dismay while his body did these quick, appalling, and efficient things.
She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.
The window looked out on the Place Redoute -- it was the only window of the apartment that did.
He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.
Unstained sections mounted in buffered glycerine or sections treated only with NS or Af did not show such green fluorescence.
While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.
He did not really listen to others, had little interest in their ideas, and wanted to have his own way -- which was the only right way.
There is only one sense in which it is valid to talk about Hardy's development: he did develop toward a more consistent and more effective control of that tone which we recognize as uniquely his.
Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.
wetting a wart with this saliva on wakening the first thing in the morning was supposed to cause it to disappear after only a few treatments, and strangely enough many warts did just that.
The actions of Bridget should be examined, since she was there and opportunity did exist, if only to establish her innocence.
Since the A.L.A.M. holdings embraced only about twenty-five per cent of motor vehicle patents, the denial of rights to independent companies did not retard technical progress in unlicensed sectors of the industry.
The moment the sea closed over Nick, some atavistic sense warned him that he would survive in this alien element only if he did not panic.

only and Fuzhou
A significant difference between the two separate Chinese provincial communities in Manhattan's Chinatown is that the Cantonese part of Chinatown not only serves Chinese customers but is also a tourist attraction, whereas the Fuzhou part of Chinatown caters less to tourists.
* July 1, 2004: Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Taizhou, Fuzhou ( urban area only ), Xiamen, Quanzhou
Enthroned as emperor at Fuzhou on 14 June 1276, his only era took the name of Jǐngyán ( 景炎 literally: bright flame ).
From that time on, but only for another twenty or so years, the name of the city of Fuzhou – or Foochow-became well recognised in England.

only and immigration
After the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed, which greatly restricted immigration and allowed processing at overseas embassies, the only immigrants to pass through the station were displaced persons or war refugees.
Ellis Island saw detention peak at 1, 500, but by 1952, after changes to immigration law and policies, only 30 detainees remained.
For arrivals, the train runs only from the West Hall to the East Hall, where all passengers must disembark for immigration, customs, and baggage claim.
The only major harbour is James Bay at Jamestown, Saint Helena, which has customs and immigration buildings.
" His doctoral thesis argues against oriental immigration, summed up in the following comments from an earlier 1908 report King authored while he was Deputy-Minister of Labour: " That Canada should desire to restrict immigration from the Orient is regarded as natural, that Canada should remain a white man's country is believed to be not only desirable for economic and social reasons but highly necessary on political and national grounds.
Only the Secretary of Labor could issue warrants for the arrest of alien violators of the Immigrations Acts, and only he could sign deportation orders following a hearing by an immigration inspector.
During the summer of 1972, he prepared to resign and changed his mind only because of fears of a renewed wave of immigration from Uganda after the accession of Idi Amin, who had expelled Uganda's Asian residents.
Even in Canada and other developed nations, the loss of human capital is considered a problem that can only be offset by further draws on the human capital of poorer nations via immigration.
In other cases, minorities were subject to legal and extra-legal persecution and their only option was immigration to their ancestral home country.
Many Americans feared a floodgate scenario with a large and sudden increase of the refugee population, but the 50, 000 cap would only account for 10 % of immigration flow to the U. S. and would allow one refugee for every 4, 000 Americans, small numbers compared to those of countries like Canada, France and Australia.
The Jewish opinion was divided as Jewish immigration was limited to only 12, 000, and the Twentieth Zionist Congress ultimately rejected the proposal as well.
Even though the White Paper states its commitment to the Balfour Declaration, it imposed very substantial limits to both Jewish immigration ( restricting it to only 75, 000 over the next 5 years ), and Jewish ability to purchase land.
In the early years of the FN, immigration policy was only a minor issue for the party, although it did call for immigration to be reduced.
The 1960s and 1970s saw a second population boom, caused by immigration from poorer regions of Spain: however this was not matched by construction of the necessary amenities and it was only in the 1990s that public investment resulted in additional schools, leisure facilities and housing.
" He concludes his chapter on the film with the following comment: " In short, what emerges from The Italian is an unusually complex view of tenement life and multiethnic immigration in America, and the film consequently retains its value not only as social history but also as a work of art.
Nominations other than for the International Album of the Year may only be awarded to Canadians who have lived in Canada during the final six months of the eligibility period, and are deemed Canadian by birth, passport or immigration status.
In 2061, with Boone dead and exploding immigration threatening the fabric of Martian society, Bogdanov launches a revolution against what many now view as occupying TransNat troops operating only loosely under an UNOMA rubber-stamp approval.
The late 19th century saw industrialization, immigration, and urbanization that fed the Industrial Revolution, and the heart of industrial domination and innovation was in the Great Lakes states of the Midwest, which only began its slow decline by the late 20th century.
From the start, it was the airport's only international concourse, containing its own immigration and customs facilities.
Toponyms not only illustrate ethnic settlement patterns, but they can also help identify discrete periods of immigration.
Founder Francis G. Newlands was an " avowed racist " who in 1912 mounted his presidential campaign on a platform that called for a constitutional amendment to disenfranchise black men and limit immigration to whites only.
" Boyer sent agents to black communities in the United States to convince them that Haiti was a sovereign state and open to immigration only for blacks.

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