That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

You can wait, of course, until you arrive in Europe before renting your car.

In fact, we had one birth before the end of the course, and another student had to take the final examiantion a week early, just to be on the safe side.

Diane was needed as a material witness in the case and New York police searched three continents before they found her in their own back yard -- in a swank hotel, of course.

I'd had patients who'd refused surgery before, of course, but never one who didn't show, in one way or another, the reason why.

Of course we have before us the example of the great races at the galactic center ; ;

He completed the course ( 1, 178 km or 732 miles ) in 48 hours and 47 minutes, finishing nearly six hours before the runner-up.

The crusaders, whose objective had been Egypt, were persuaded to set their course for Constantinople before which they appeared in June 1203, proclaiming Alexios IV as Emperor and inviting the populace of the capital to depose his uncle.

Ambroise is surprisingly accurate in his chronology ; though he did not complete his work before 1195, it is evidently founded upon notes which he had taken in the course of his pilgrimage.

Just over three hours before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the crew performed a final course correction burn, changing their velocity by.

As a result, it could be argued that there is a moral imperative for an agent to inform himself as much as possible about a situation before judging the appropriate course of action.

Three years before Davis ' lectures, Henry Edward Armstrong taught a degree course in chemical engineering at the City and Guilds of London Institute.

When the sample is treated in the course of an analysis, the phase or the phases containing the analytes of interest is / are referred to as the sample whereas everything out of interest separated from the sample before or in the course of the analysis is referred to as waste.

Instead of refuelling and waiting for the wash of this run to completely subside, Campbell decided to make the return run immediately, to beat it before it had been reflected back onto the course.

North of Isna ( 160 km north of Aswan ), the plateau on both sides of the valley rises to as much as 550 m above sea level ; at Qina ( some 90 km north of Isna ) the 300-m limestone cliffs force the Nile to change course towards the southwest for about 60 km before it turns northwest for about 160 km to Asyut.

Of Louise little is known after her early salacious life in Paris, but in due course she lived for a time in a convent in Savoy before her death in 1726.

Of course, the shot of the actor was years before the other shots and he never " saw " any of the items.

A meal often consists of three courses, hors d ' œuvre or entrée ( introductory course, sometimes soup ), plat principal ( main course ), fromage ( cheese course ) and / or dessert, sometimes with a salad offered before the cheese or dessert.

Le dîner ( dinner ) often consists of three courses, hors d ' œuvre or entrée ( appetizers or introductory course, sometimes soup ), plat principal ( main course ), and a cheese course or dessert, sometimes with a salad offered before the cheese or dessert.

For example, marine GPS receivers often have a " man overboard " function, which instantly creates a waypoint in the receiver for the boat's position when enabled and then begins displaying the distance and course back to that position.

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The SuperTuxKart HUD displays the character's speed, position, and amount of nitro, while also displaying the map of the course in the lower-left corner.

All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.

That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.

At this point, of course, the issue has become complicated by a development unforeseen by Lappenberg and Kemble.

One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

The consequences, of course, have been dreadful: reckless expansion has led to overpopulation, pollution of the earth and depletion of its natural resources.

And this, of course, is exactly what Madison Avenue has been accused of doing albeit in a primitive way, with its `` hidden persuaders '' and what the space merchants accomplish with much greater sophistication and precision.

These are, of course, the same people whose support he has only now rejected to seek the independent vote.

The American Institute of Interior Designers has published a recommended course for designers and a percentage layout of such a course.

Since the course, one member has lost her husband.

Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.

On the other hand, in a more favorable vein, general business activity should receive some stimulus from rising Federal spending, and the reduction in business inventories has probably run a good part of its course.

Beyond a certain point, of course, no woman can be dominant -- nature has seen to that.

Of course, nationalism has really outlived its usefulness in a country as world-oriented as ours, and its continued existence reflects one of the major culture lags of the twentieth-century United States.

He is, of course, a segregationist, but he says he has never made an `` anti-Negro '' speech.

Over the years, enlivened chiefly by disputes about the relative merits of Maine and Idaho potatoes, the menu has pursued its drab all-American course.

Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.

One of our foremost jurists, David Dudley Field, has gone so far as to call this provision `` the greatest achievement ever made in the course of human history ''.

And of course Larkin has just the thing they want.

Equally penetrating in its fashion is the following remark by a lady in the course of a literary conversation: `` So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it ''.

As soon as the fox has taken hold on most of the populace he imports more wharf rats, who, of course, say they are the aggrieved victims of an extermination campaign in the city.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.