Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Ford Prefect" ¶ 6
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Post and war
The advantage of Britain's new colony in providing a non-Russian source of flax and hemp for naval supplies was referred to in an article in Lloyd ’ s Evening Post of 5 October 1787 which urged: “ It is undoubtedly the interest of Great-Britain to remain neutral in the present contest between the Russians and the Turks ” and observed, “ Should England cease to render her services to the Empress of Russia, in a war against the Turks, there can be little of nothing to fear from her ill-will.
Aldington never completely recovered from his war experiences, and may have continued to suffer from the then-unrecognised phenomenon of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
After the war he made a name for himself as a comedy actor, notably on radio in Waterlogged Spa, alongside Eric Barker and Puffney Post Office in which he played a hapless old postman with the catch-phrase " It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you tears them up ".
Services are held at 11 a. m. at war memorials and schools in suburbs and cities across the country, at which the " Last Post " is sounded by a bugler and a one-minute silence is observed.
By this time Clifford clearly disagreed with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who believed, according to The Washington Post, " that the war was being won by the allies " and that it " would be won if America had the will to win it.
Post war it built robust military STOL utility aircraft such as the Pioneer and larger Twin Pioneer.
Post war French roads were very different from pre-war ones.
Particularly since the 1960s, there has been some controversy concerning the 346 British and Imperial troops — including 25 Canadians, 22 Irish and 5 New Zealanders — who were shot for desertion, murder, cowardice and other offences during the war, some of whom are now thought to have been suffering from combat stress reaction or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (" shell-shock ", as it was then known ).
Twenty-six year old Winston Churchill, famous for his escape from a Boer prisoner of war camp and his journalism for the Morning Post, successfully stood as a Conservative candidate in Oldham, where Chamberlain spoke on his behalf.
A more recent account, by Sally Jenkins ( of the Washington Post ) and John Stauffer ( chair of the Program in the History of the American Civilization and professor of English and of African and African American studies at Harvard University ), which developed from a screenplay, draws on what they claim to be more extensive research to emphasize the extent to which, in the view of those authors, Knight ended Confederate control of Jones County during the war, and the extent of Knight's Unionist and anti-racist sympathies, both during the war and during Reconstruction.
Early European settler life, the iron ore and bauxite industries, Civil War strife, Post war recovery, the Great Depression era, early textile industries and notable figures are depicted through interactive exhibits in the permanent gallery space.
In a 1944 article, the Saturday Evening Post, in discussing the boom created by the Milan Arsenal during World War II, predicted Milan would become a " ghost town " when the war was over.
Post war investigations were held for the Russian naval leadership during those battles, in which Tōgō had either destroyed or captured, into the reasons behind their utter defeat.
Tim Pat Coogan declared what he dubbed " editorial war " on the government after a, now notorious, interview between Bernard Nossiter of the Washington Post and O ' Brien in August 1976 regarding the passage of the Emergency Powers Bill.
Post war the US added a form of remote guidance to the Tallboy to create the Tarzon, a 12, 000-pound bomb deployed in the Korean War against an underground command center near Kanggye.
* 2010: Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post, " for his rich, beautifully written series on Iraq as the United States departs and its people and leaders struggle to deal with the legacy of war and to shape the nation ’ s future.
His coverage of the war, particularly the Sabra and Shatila massacre, won him the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting ( shared with Loren Jenkins of The Washington Post ).
Post war restrictions on capital expenditure delayed the construction of the vehicular tunnel, but work started on the smaller tunnels for pedestrians and cyclists in 1947.
Critchfield defended his actions when the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1999 made it public knowledge, disputing that Gehlen himself was a war criminal but admitting to a Washington Post reporter that " there's no doubt that the CIA got carried away with recruiting some pretty bad people ".
Following the war the museum had to be closed for repairs and a number of temporary tenants, such as the College of Technology and the Post Office used museum space as their own buildings were being reconstructed.
Since the launch of the National Post as another English-language national paper in 1998, some industry analysts have proclaimed a " national newspaper war " between The Globe and Mail and the National Post.
Fraser's tenure at the helm of the Post was marked by further budget cuts, restructuring, and staff layoffs, while doubts continued about the long-term future of the money-losing paper in its commercial war with the Globe and Mail.
Post war players include Albert ( Shirt ) Hambelton, Reg Cook, Graham Farrar, Roger Tait, Ted Baker, Paul Ravalich Tawera Nikau ( Rangiriri ) and as of late Wairangi Koopu ( Taniwharau ) and also Lance Hohaia ( Taniwharau ).

Post and design
The Post Office released a second and third Sherman issue of 1895, both almost identical to the first issue, with slight changes in the framework design and color.
In Britain postcards without images were issued by Post Office, and were printed with a stamp as part of the design, which was included in the price of purchase.
In April, 2005 the Oklahoma City Skate Park at Wiley Post Park was renamed the Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park to recognize Mat Hoffman, an Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area resident and businessman that was instrumental in the design of the skate park and is a 10-time BMX World Vert champion.
Helped design the " You Are Not Forgotten " POW / MIA flag that still flies in front of all U. S. Post Offices, most firehouses and police stations, all major U. S. Military installations as well as most veterans organization chapters in the United States. Served as the Leagues liaison to the White House, the United Nations and the Paris Peace Talks.
Scott's most ubiquitous design was for the General Post Office.
The U. S. Postal Service | U. S. Post Office in Fouke is of log cabin design.
The Post Office is considered among the finest of Depression Era design, built under the W. P. A.
Most of Nokesville mostly consists of farms and wooded lands with the " Village " between Aden Road and Nokesville Road ( SR 28 ) on Fitzwater Drive which consists of a U. S. Post Office, Carter Bank and Trust, Herf Jones Rings, Custom Designers Inc. a graphic design studio, McGlothlin Properties Realtors, Jacobs and Co.
The red telephone box was the result of a competition in 1924 to design a kiosk that would be acceptable to the London Metropolitan Boroughs which had hitherto resisted the Post Office's effort to erect K1 kiosks on their streets.
The organisers invited entries from three respected architects and, along with the designs from the Post Office and from The Birmingham Civic Society, the Fine Arts Commission judged the competition and selected the design submitted by Giles Gilbert Scott.
The Post Office chose to make Scott's winning design in cast iron ( Scott had suggested mild steel ) and to paint it red ( Scott had suggested silver, with a " greeny-blue " interior ) and, with other minor changes of detail, it was brought into service as the Kiosk No. 2 or K2.
Upon the privatisation of Post Office Telephones ' successor, British Telecom ( BT ), the KX100, a more utilitarian design, began to replace most of the existing boxes.
Most countries treat unofficial overprints the same way the United States Post Office does: the USPS Domestic Mail Manual states that stamps " overprinted with an unauthorized design, message or other marking " are not valid for postage.
The original design of the " Post " was created by Lucie Lacava, a design consultant based in Montreal.
Both the Evening Echo and Evening Post won design awards during the late 1960s and early 1970s, but it was the Evening Echo that took the major writing honours, with John Marquis being voted Provincial Journalist of the Year in 1974 and Melanie Phillips being named Young Journalist of the Year in 1975.
* Post to sci. electronics. design
The design by Cram and Goodhue won an architectural competition to build the new Saint Thomas Church, winning over entries by George Browne Post ( 1837 – 1913 ) and Robert W. Gibson.
Wittet had already worked on the design of the General Post Office and in 1911 would design one of Mumbai's most famous landmarks, the Gateway of India.
Despite this, Stone's design was well received in editorials in The Washington Post, Washington Star, and quickly approved by the United States Commission of Fine Arts, National Capital Planning Commission, and the National Park Service.
The Memphis Group was an Italian design and architecture group started by Ettore Sottsass that designed Post Modern furniture, fabrics, ceramics, glass and metal objects from 1981-1987.
The former Collingwood Post Office was built between 1891 and 1892 in the Victorian Mannerist style, to the design of John Marsden and is similar to Rupertswood, with its tall tower.
When the Watergate East opened in 1965, The Washington Post called these areas opulent and evocative of the best in Italian design.

0.556 seconds.