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The day before, the squadron to which the Potomac was assigned had shift to the command of Commodore Matthew Perry.
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The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.
Unlike so many of the power-starved intellectuals in underdeveloped nations of our own day, they commanded both prestige and influence before the Revolution started.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
His letter of October 26 named two of the men about whom Quiney had written to Shakespeare the day before.
But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.
The day before Election Day, to which we are entitled as a legal holiday, we were informed to report to our respective polls to work as `` workers of the party ''.
Couldn't take them near a river, though, or they'd squawk like a turkey cock the day before Thanksgiving ''.
If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.
If A taxpayer dies, the executor, administrator, or legal representative must file the final return for the decedent on or before the 15th day of the 4th month following the close of the deceased taxpayer's normal tax year.
Returns of estates or trusts are due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of the tax year.
Do buy meat the day or the day before you intend to cook it.
One day over a year before, there had been a cocktail party in an apartment of a downtown hotel.
Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.
Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.
`` Come on, let's hurry down before they lock up for the day ''.
She had assumed before then that one day he would ask her to marry him.
These included, as one, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Payne, who had checked in a little after noon the day before, and had not checked out together.
The next day, Sunday, the hangover reminded Haney where he had been the night before.
This deprived him of liberty in Hong Kong, but he told Boats McCafferty that Hong Kong was a book he had read before, and the Navy would always bring him there again, some day.
I, who until that day before had been Mrs. Salter's friend, her equal, was the servant now.
Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.
day and squadron
Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.
It has also been suggested that the island may not have been discovered until 30 July 1503 by a squadron under the command of Estêvão da Gama and that da Nova actually discovered Tristan da Cunha on the feast day of St Helena.
With the return of the fresh squadron under Prince Rupert the English now got more ships, yet the Dutch decided the battle on the fourth day, breaking the English line several times.
This gave Codrington time to catch up, and the British squadron, after a whole day of fighting the wind, arrived off Papas on the evening of 4 October.
On the first day Monck, sailing in the van with George Ayscue's white squadron behind him and Thomas Teddiman's blue squadron forming the rear, surprised the Dutch fleet at anchor near Dunkirk.
The previous day the damaged Hollandia had been sent home together with the Gelderland, Delft, Reiger, Asperen and Beschermer to guard the three captured English vessels ; now also the damaged Pacificatie, Vrijheid, Provincie Utrecht and Calantsoog had to return and only a handful of the rear squadron remained.
Thus enforced with 23 ' fresh ' ships and so numbering in between 60 to 65 men-of-war and 6 fireships, the English attacked in line on the fourth day with Sir Christopher Myngs now in charge of the van, Rupert of the center, and Monk of the rear squadron.
Decker identifies himself and his squadron and informs the American officers that the day is March 5, 1917.
On September 24, 1918, now a captain, he was named commander of the squadron, and on the following day, he claimed two more German planes, for which he was belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor in 1931 by President Herbert Hoover.
A larger British squadron — consisting of the battlecruisers and, the armoured cruisers, and, and the light cruisers and — had arrived in the port only the day before.
The carrier-based night-fighter squadron, nicknamed the " Tomcatters ," remained active under various designations continuing through the present day and Felix still appears on both the squadron's cloth jacket patches and aircraft, carrying his bomb with its fuse burning.
On Sunday a squadron of heavily armed soldiers arrived from Doncaster and the day after, another 180 infantrymen arrived from Plymouth.
After " two thirds of the day " had elapsed a squadron of the elite Persian cavalry broke through the Roman right flank, composed of Belisarius ' Ghassanid allies, with surprising force such that the Ghassanids were accused of treachery after they fled.
He would soon develop a routine of flying the first sortie of the day and then handing the squadron to a subordinate while he stayed on the ground to do paperwork.
HMX-1 was the first helicopter squadron to provide rapid transportation of U. S. Presidents, a mission they have continued to carry out to the present day.
The next day, all the captains in the squadron donned full dress and white trousers and were formally presented to the Dowager Queen, after which Napier and Stirling escorted her to the royal Palace of Necessidades, where they were received by Queen Maria II.
296 Squadron and 297 Squadron both moved in on 14 March 1944 with their Armstrong Whitworth Albemarles before 296 squadron added the Handley Page Halifax V to their inventory and moved to RAF Earls Colne on 29 September 1944 and 297 squadron moving to the same place a day later.
When Admiral d ' Estaing's squadron arrived in Narragansett Bay on 29 July 1778, she,, and were all burnt the next day to prevent the French from capturing them.
Targets were a closely guarded secret, revealed only to the squadron commanders involved a day or two before the nightly missions and subject to change due to unexpected weather.
On this very day, Putiatin arrived in the harbor of Nagasaki with his squadron, composed of the mothership Pallada and four other vessels.
The Squadron reformed at RAF Andover in January 1923 as a day bomber squadron equipped with Airco DH. 9As, quickly moving to RAF Bircham Newton in Norfolk.
A day after leaving the China Fleet the Surprise spots Linois's squadron cruising the Indian Ocean.
A pursuit unit, the 94th " Hat in the Ring " Aero Squadron ; a day bombardment squadron, the 166th ; and four observation squadrons ( 1st, 12th, 88th, and 9th Night ) were initially assigned.
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