Still, until well into the 20th century, Berikon was a rural village, populated by just 900 inhabitants in 1950, before a sudden boom of construction activity occurred.

In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ) and appeared in other classic films such as Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) and The Day the Earth Stood Still ( 1951 ).

Davis was one of the four journalists who portrayed themselves in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, and he was the host and narrator of the ABC television series, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse ( 1950 – 52 ), which won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series.

His films included Meet Me in St. Louis ( 1944 ), Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ), All About Eve ( 1950 ), The Day the Earth Stood Still ( 1951 ), Rawhide ( 1951 ), Howard Hawks ' Monkey Business ( 1952 ), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers ( 1956 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ) and Seven Days in May ( 1964 ).

Still a binge drinker, Wills became increasingly unreliable in the late 1940s, causing a rift with Tommy Duncan ( who bore the brunt of audience anger when Wills's binges prevented him from appearing ).

Still, even when used in this second sense, the word is often restricted to apply only to societies that have attained a particular level of advancement — especially the founding of cities.

Still, when Napoleon arrived in Cairo in 1798, the city's population was less than 300, 000, forty percent lower than it was at the height of Mamluk — and Cairene — influence in the mid-14th century.

Elfman cited his first time noticing film music being when he heard Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still as an eleven-year-old and being a fan of film music since then.

Still others, such as fear of mice and insects, may be unique to humans and developed during the paleolithic and neolithic time periods ( when mice and insects become important carriers of infectious diseases and harmful for crops and stored foods ).

Carlotta amuses everyone with a tale of how her dramatic solo was cut from the Follies because the audience found it humorous, but somehow the number works when she sings it today (" I'm Still Here ").

Still believing the situation is fictional, Jason orders the Thermians to fire upon Sarris's spaceship and then insists on returning home, but when they send him through space to Earth, he finally realizes the events were real.

Still, Otto formed marital ties with the east, when he married the Byzantine princess Theophanu.

Still, Genscher was one of the FDP's driving forces when, in 1982, the party switched sides from its coalition with the SPD to support the CDU / CSU in their Constructive Vote of No Confidence to have Helmut Schmidt replaced with Helmut Kohl as Chancellor.

'" Still, many believe that it is unclear exactly what Reagan knew and when, and whether the arms sales were motivated by his desire to save the U. S. hostages.

Still, the Battle of Hlobane Mountain offers just a glimpse of an alternative mobile scenario, where the manoeuviing Zulu " horns " cut off and drove back Buller's column when it was dangerously strung out on the mountain.

Still more settlers came in the late 1960s and 1970s, when the government paid handsome bonuses to workers participating in a program to relocate Soviet industry close to the extensive coal, gas, and oil deposits of Central Asia.

Still, the powerless government had its use — when World War I began, several Western powers and Japan wanted China to declare war on Germany, in order to liquidate the latter's holdings there.

Still, in the midst of all the island's chaos, it should be noted that Ralph has a tendency to be polite and logical in the tensest of moments ; for example, when the children are obliged to investigate Castle Rock, Ralph takes the lead despite being afraid of " the beast ".

Still others were apprehended when they made elementary mistakes during their operations.

" Still, though all Canadian nationals were as equally British subjects as their British counterparts prior to the implementation of the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1947, the idea of Canadian-born persons being appointed governor general was raised as early as 1919, when, at the Paris Peace Conference, Canadian prime minister Robert Borden consulted with Prime Minister of South Africa Louis Botha and the two agreed that the viceregal appointees should be long-term residents of their respective dominions.

Still, Bagot's work would prove important as a secondary source when the Foreign Office revisited the matter nearly three decades later.

Still forks were not commonly used in Western Europe until the 16th century when they became part of the etiquette in Italy.

Still another important chapter in the story of the Revolution was written on May 5, 1783, when General Washington received Sir Guy Carleton at the DeWint House, where they discussed the terms of the peace treaty.

And they say Solon loved ; and that is the reason, I suppose, that when afterwards they differed about the government, their enmity never produced any hot and violent passion, they remembered their old kindnesses, and retained " Still in its embers living the strong fire " of their love and dear affection.

Still, the number of earls remained the same until 1337 when Edward III declared that he intended to create six new earldoms.

Still, they show considerable curiosity when allowed to walk freely, especially in familiar and safe terrain.

Still, she thought she would continue when the war was over.

Still others suggest that poverty line misleads as it measures everyone below the poverty line the same, when in reality someone living on $ 1. 2 per day is in a different state of poverty than someone living on $ 0. 2 per day.

Still, interpolation search may be useful when one is forced to search certain sorted but unindexed on-disk datasets.

* Hayes, William, The Progressive Education Movement: Is it Still a Factor in Today ’ s ’ Schools?

* 1895 – William Grant Still, American composer ( d. 1978 )

William Still, often called " The Father of the Underground Railroad ", helped hundreds of slaves to escape ( as many as 60 a month ), sometimes hiding them in his Philadelphia home.

* William Still

* Hendrick, George, and Willene Hendrick ( 2003 ) Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad As Told by Levi Coffin and William Still.

* Underground Railroad, 1872, by William Still, from Project Gutenberg ( classic book documenting the Underground Railroad operations in Philadelphia )

* The William Still National Underground Railroad Foundation

Still of Allyson Ames and William Shatner, with English subtitles over the French subtitles of the sole film copy found in France.

Still undeterred, Shearer risked some of her savings on a consultation with Dr. William Bates, a pioneer in the treatment of incorrectly aligned eyes and defective vision.

Still from Within Our Gates, portraying the lynching of Jasper Landry ( William Stark ) and his wife ( Mattie Edwards )

The Gilbert Clock Company, located along the Still River north of town, was founded in 1871 by William L. Gilbert ( 1806 ‑ 1890 ) and became one of the largest clock companies in the world at the turn of the century.

* William Grant Still, African American classical composer

A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is Alfred Frankenstein's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900.

Still in desperate need of a male heir, the next year he married the 23-year-old Palatine princess Maria Anna of Neuburg, a daughter of Philip William, Elector of the Palatinate, and sister-in-law of his uncle Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

* May 11 – William Grant Still, composer ( died 1978 )

William Grant Still was named arranger and later musical director.

The first generation of abstract expressionists included Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Phillip Guston, Ad Reinhardt, James Brooks, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Mark Tobey, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Jack Tworkov David Smith, and Hans Hofmann, among others.

Handy, where William Grant Still served in an A & R and Repertoire capacity ) and Columbia.

William Grant Still was orchestrator and Fats Waller the pianist as Johnson was contractually obliged to conduct his and Waller's hit Broadway show Keep Shufflin.

William Grant Still ( May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978 ) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions.

William Grant Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi.

He was the son of two teachers, Carrie Lena Fambro Still ( 1872 – 1927 ) and William Grant Still ( 1871 – 1895 ), who was also a partner in a grocery store and performed as a local bandleader.

His father William Grant Still Sr. died when his infant son was 3 months old.