Even though congress had authorized the building of the transcontinental railroad in 1862, it was only extended as far as Nebraska City by the start of the summer of 1867.

Though attracted to research as a career, he was discouraged by his own perceived ignorance after attending a microbiology congress that summer.

In the summer of 1956 Asger Jorn invites Constant to Alba, Piëmonte Italy, for a congress dedicated to ' Industry and the Fine Arts ' initiated by ' Mouvement pour un Bauhaus Imaginiste ' ( International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus.

An extra session of congress was called in the summer of 1841 for a restoration of the American system.

But a revolutionary congress met that summer in Savannah and elected delegates to the Second Continental Congress.

Due to national security concerns, other members of congress later revoked the privilege by the summer of 2003.

The congress also decided that another congress would convene in the summer of 1990 to decide the future of the party.

Although the Province of Georgia had managed to remain relatively neutral before these events, radicals in the Georgia provincial congress came into power during the summer of 1775 and progressively stripped Georgia's Royal Governor, James Wright, of his powers.

) To underline its opposition to Russian nuclear weapons as well as those of the West, the Committee held a demonstration in Red Square, Moscow, at an international congress of the World Peace Council in the summer of 1962 calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons and attacking the Soviet system.

When General Brown came into office, plans were already well in hand for the Army's fifth international congress in London, and the General gave masterful leadership and direction to the proceedings over a period of 10 days in the summer of 1978.

But in the summer of 1921, Zeth Höglund, together with Fredrik Ström and Hinke Bergegren, represented Sweden in the third congress of the Comintern held in Moscow, and Höglund worked hard to make the Swedish party accept the Twenty-one Conditions for membership in the Communist International, including changing the name from Sweden ’ s Social Democratic Left Party to the Swedish Communist Party.

Today, over 3, 600 teenagers and volunteers attend the German TeenStreet congress each summer.

Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

He was determined to spend an industrious summer.

At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.

The theme of glorious summer coming after a long winter of discontent and repression was, he has told us, congenial to his artistic sense.

As summer cooled into fall and winter, even so the relationship between the two men continued to grow colder by the day, and by December of 1834 it was icy.

All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

By early summer, he wrote from Laramie that he was suffering from the wound inflicted in the ambush and was in a bad way financially, so Pels sent him a draft for $100, warning that it was still not wise for him to return.

When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.

-- For a second month in a row, Multnomah County may be short of general assistance money in its budget to handle an unusually high summer month's need, the state public welfare commission was told Friday.

National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.

She is vacationing at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and in his welcoming remarks, the President said he was representing her.

So had Miss Shawnee Rakestraw, full of criticisms about the changes here, giving thanks that her dear old father had gone to his Heavenly Rest last year, saying how much she enjoyed her boarding house in town in inclement weather, was looking forward to Quinzaine Spa this summer.

It made him pretty hot under the collar, after the idea Miss Sis had given him, to be told by Miss Kiz that her holy spa was all reserved for this summer and next, if you please, and that much as she regretted it, they would be unable to entertain Mrs. Robards and the children.

Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

The book was used as a lobbying tool by the AFL-CIO and members of the US Congress during the summer of 2005 when Congress was debating ratification of the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

In 1995, U. S. representatives Bill McCollum of Florida and Gary Ackerman of New York distributed the documentary to every member of the House of Representatives, accompanied by a letter urging them to watch the film before the House began debating anti-terrorism legislation that summer.

He spent the summer of that year touring Essex and Somerset on a bicycle, explaining the Act at public meetings.

In the summer of 1606, laws against recusancy were strengthened ; the Popish Recusants Act returned England to the Elizabethan system of fines and restrictions, introduced a sacramental test, and an Oath of Allegiance, requiring Catholics to abjure as a " heresy " the doctrine that " princes excommunicated by the Pope could be deposed or assassinated ".

The Act established Head Start, which had originally been started by the Office of Economic Opportunity as an eight-week summer program, as a permanent program.

During the summer of 1948 the Cabinet discussed repealing the Act ; however, no firm decision was made.

In Ireland, since the Standard Time ( Amendment ) Act, 1971, Ireland has used UTC + 1 in summer ( officially " standard time ",, though usually called " summer time ") and UTC + 0 in winter ( officially " winter time ").

In early spring and summer the reserve is the habitat of 23 species of dragonfly, including the rare Norfolk hawker which is protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and listed in the British Red Data Books on Insects as Category 1 ( endangered ).

Just as the Civil Rights Act passed into law in 1964, his group The Impressions produced music that became the soundtrack to a summer of revolution.

Baldwin returned to the United States in the summer of 1957 while the Civil Rights Act of that year was being debated in Congress.

Hearings in both the U. S. Senate and the House continued through the summer of 1973 on both new bills and amendments to the Mineral Leasing Act.

In the summer of 1920, the British government proposed the Government of Ireland Act 1920 ( which passed into law on 3 May 1921 ) that envisaged the partition of the island of Ireland into two autonomous regions Northern Ireland ( six northeastern counties ) and Southern Ireland ( the rest of the island, including its most northerly county, Donegal ).

Some merchants found The Shoplifting Act overly severe, jurors often deliberately under-valued the cost of items stolen so convicted shoplifters would escape death, and reformist lawyers advocated for the Act's repeal, but The Shoplifting Act was supported by powerful people such as Lord Ellenborough, who characterized penal transportation as " a summer airing to a milder climate " and the archbishop of Canterbury, who believed that strong punishment was necessary to prevent a dramatic increase in crime.

Due to the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, the Welsh Church Act 1914 was passed together with the Suspensory Act 1914, meaning that the Welsh Church Act would not be implemented for the duration of the war.

She appeared at several festivals in England during the summer, and for her performances was nominated for two UK Festival Awards, as " Best Headliner " and " Feel Good Act of the Summer.

Another alternative was " All-hallown summer ", as All Hallows ' (= All Saints ') Day is November 1, hence Halloween is October 31 ; the expression is used in Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1 Scene 2.

In summer 1964, the Freedom Summer was occurring in Mississippi and ( on July 2 ) President Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Seattle's open housing forces took a blow when, on May 15, 1965, just before the summer of the Voting Rights Act and the Watts Riots, an airplane crash killed Sidney Gerber and city council member Wing Luke.

" He denied New York's argument that the Bakeshop Act was a necessary health measure, claiming that the " average bakery of the present day is well ventilated, comfortable both summer and winter, and always sweet smelling.

In the summer of 1958, a bill was finally passed in Congress and on September 4, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the National Cultural Center Act which provided momentum for the project.

This envisaged a seasonal scheme with a back-up steam turbine to generate electricity in the summer, but the overall cost was considered too great and the Act was shelved.

In the summer of 1971, the National Assmebly of Quebec passed Bill 50, an Act establishing the Société de développement de la Baie James ( SDBJ ), a Crown corporation tasked with the development of natural resources as well as the general administration of the James Bay territory.