Why not make a beginning with a united and disarmed Germany whose neutrality and immunity from nuclear bombing would be guaranteed by the Big Four powers and the United States??

The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.

On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.

The Big Four, helped by Archie's brother Cambell, was a stop-gap collection of Sketch magazine stories, for money when her husband left.

Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.

A brief passage in The Big Four furnishes possible information about Poirot's birth or at least childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: " But we did not go into Spa itself.

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

In " The Big Four " ( 1927 ) Poirot feigned his death and subsequent funeral in order to launch a surprise attack on the Big Four.

Hastings is a man who is capable of great bravery and courage, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by The Big Four and possessing unwavering loyalty towards Poirot.

However, when forced to choose between Poirot and his wife in that novel, he initially chooses to betray Poirot to the Big Four so that they would not torture and kill his wife.

Those films will be: Labours of Hercules ; Dead Man ’ s Folly ; The Big Four ; Elephants Can Remember ; and Curtain.

* 1967 – Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor ( Big Four )

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

The " Big Four " were joint-stock public companies and they continued to run the railway system until 31 December 1947.

It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

It was financed and built through " The Big Four " ( who called themselves " The Associates "): Sacramento, California businessmen Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins.

* TVO Big Ideas: Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions, by Freeman Dyson ( video ) June 1, 2011 at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada

Several banks also have rewards programs, including three of the Big Four banks of the United States -- Wells Fargo being the lone exception, CapitalOne, and Citizens Financial Group.

In Mitchell's teenage years, she is known to have written a 400-page novel about girls in a boarding school, The Big Four.

The 1910 season was marked by one of the most sensational transfers in Victorian football history, when Andy Curran masterminded the clearance of Carlton ’ s famed “ Big Four ” of ‘ Mallee ’ Johnson, Fred Jinks, Charlie Hammond and Frank ‘ Silver ’ Caine to North Melbourne.

* The accountancy market is controlled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and Ernst & Young ( commonly known as the Big Four )

The most successful pulp magazines were Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book and Short Stories described by some pulp historians as " The Big Four ".

but they were going up to the Big House after supper, and she had to put on a clean dress and fix her hair a little.

But at Yalta the conflicting expectations of East and West were merged into an agreement by the Big Three to assist all liberated countries in Europe `` to create democratic institutions of their own choice ''.

With these completed and ice gone from the St. Peter's River ( present-day Minnesota river ) their 250 bushels of wheat, 100 bushels of oats and barley and 30 bushels of peas and some chickens were loaded onto the flat-bottomed boats and rowed up the river to Big Stone Lake, across into Lake Traverse, and down the Red.

By the end of the nineteenth century, in 1893, when the Big Three, Columbia, and Penn were populous centers of learning, Dartmouth graduated only sixty-nine.

Big tapioca pearls ( 波霸 / 黑珍珠 ) were adapted and quickly replaced the small pearls.

Usually the stars were roughly ordered from the head to the feet ( or tail ) of the figure ( as in the Big Dipper ).

A number of public transportation projects were included as part of an environmental mitigation for the Big Dig.

It was also reported that federal safety authorities had questioned the design of the handrails and had recommended crash-testing them before they were originally installed, but these concerns were dismissed by Big Dig project managers at the time.

Contestants are required to evict one of their own on a regular basis ; in the earlier series of Big Brother, contestants were evicted every two weeks, however, as introduced in the UK version, evictions occurred once a week, all of the current series of Big Brother follow this format.

Although The Vanguard folded in 1926, the others were a great triumph and became known as " The Big Five "; they ended Amalgamated Press's near-monopoly of the British comic industry.

By the late 1920s, New York writers other than Fitz Gerald were starting to use " Big Apple " and were using it outside of a horse-racing context.

Light elements, primarily hydrogen and helium, were created in the Big Bang.

Big Bang nucleosynthesis had a brief period during which it could operate, so only the very lightest elements were produced.

It is generally agreed that no heavier elements than boron were produced in the Big Bang.

All of the boys were called " Ike ", such as " Big Ike " ( Edgar ) and " Little Ike " ( Dwight ); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name.

The leading players were Hardy Richardson, Jack Rowe, Deacon White, Charlie Getzein and Hall of Famers " Big Sam " Thompson and Dan Brouthers.

They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

There were numerous critical comments about Blyton: claiming that her vocabulary was too limited, that she presented too rosy a view of the world, even suggestions that little Noddy's relationship with Big Ears was " suspect ", that he was a poor role model for boys because he sometimes wept when frustrated and the laws were politically incorrect.

In the United States the concerts were billed as The Big Night and were their largest to date, with 80, 000 people seeing them at Cleveland Stadium.