School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

His first move was to send Hino to the village to spend a few days.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

Push-ups are essential, but few have the strength for them at first.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

In the first few experiments Af was passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and absorbed twice with 50 - 100 mg sweet clover tissue powder.

Emotional maturity is the result of many factors, the principal ones being the experiences of the first few years of the child's life.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

During the first few days of wearing the appliance and immediately following each adjustment, Susan may have a slight discomfort or soreness, but after a short time this will disappear.

Hudson's first error of the fourth voyage occurred only a few miles down the Thames.

But his first few days with Troop H were full of surprises, beginning with First Sergeant Robert Early.

wetting a wart with this saliva on wakening the first thing in the morning was supposed to cause it to disappear after only a few treatments, and strangely enough many warts did just that.

I have previously described how, during the week of the murder, Bridget spent the first few hot days scrubbing and ironing clothes.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

Very few committees ever looked past the first few photos.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

He realizes after the first few cases that the disease is bubonic plague and is aware of the seriousness of the situation.

They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.

The national currency, the dram, suffered hyperinflation for the first few years after its introduction in 1993.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Even so, his ideas helped to found one of the first adult education centers in America, and provided the foundation for future generations of liberal education.

At Schwarzwald Hotel Adler in Häusern, three generations of chefs from the same family have defended the award from the first year the Michelin guide selected restaurants in Germany until today.

This view has the advantage of anchoring Numbers to the Pentateuch as a whole, but an alternative is to see it as structured around the two generations of those condemned to die in the wilderness and the new generation who will enter Canaan, making a theological distinction between the disobedience of the first generation and the obedience of the second.

His illustrated stories such as Histoire de M. Vieux Bois ( 1827 ), first published in the USA in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck or Histoire de Monsieur Jabot ( 1831 ), inspired subsequent generations of German and American comic artists.

In the UK and North America, generations of teenagers have got their first jobs delivering newspapers by bicycle.

This was actually the formal name of a person, used by older people to address him, and the one he would use the most in the first decades of his life ( as the person grew older, younger generations would have to use one of the courtesy names instead ).

No matter how many generations of a digital source is copied, it will still be as clear as the original first generation of digital footage.

Emperor Temmu is the first monarch of Japan, to whom the title tenno was assigned contemporaneously — not only by later generations.

Genesis appears to be structured around the recurring phrase elleh toledot, meaning " these are the generations ," with the first use of the phrase referring to the " generations of heaven and earth " and the remainder marking individuals — Noah, the " sons of Noah ", Shem, etc., down to Jacob.

Nathaniel Morton, the historian of the first years of the settlement, thus opens his subject: " we may not hide from our children, showing to the generations to come the praises of the Lord ; that especially the seed of Abraham his servant, and the children of Jacob his chosen ( Psalm cv.

Malden Island, in the central Pacific, was deserted when first visited by Europeans in 1825, but the unsuspected presence of ruined temples and the remains of other structures found on the island indicate that a population of Polynesians had lived there for perhaps several generations some centuries earlier.

Evolving to sentience from colonies of carnivorous tubeworms living beneath the ocean of an ice moon similar to Europa, the Gw ' oth broke through the ice and first experimented with fire only two generations previous to mastering nuclear fission.

They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations .” Following the Russian Revolution, environmental scientists such as revolutionary Aleksandr Bogdanov and the Proletkul't organisation made efforts to incorporate environmentalism into Bolshevism, and " integrate production with natural laws and limits " in the first decade of Soviet rule, before Joseph Stalin attacked ecologists and the science of ecology, purged environmentalists and promoted the pseudo-science of Trofim Lysenko.

The first is the midwifery was not a profession to which freeborn women of families that had enjoyed free status of several generations were attracted ; therefore it seems that most midwives were of servile origin.

* The VU0 and VU1 vector units in the Sony PlayStation 2 are microprogrammable ; in fact, VU1 was only accessible via microcode for the first several generations of the SDK.

During the first generations after Machiavelli, his main influence was in non-Republican governments.

This was directed by Hugh Hudson and featured Kinnock's 1985 conference speech, and shots of him and Glenys walking on the Great Orme in Llandudno ( so emphasising his appeal as a family man and associating him with images of Wales away from the coalmining communities where he grew up ), and a speech to that year's Welsh Labour Party conference asking why he was the " first Kinnock in a thousand generations " to go to university.

Some methodologies identify three roughly chronological generations of object modeling notations: first -, second-and third generation.

Christian monasticism first appeared in the Eastern Roman Empire a few generations before Benedict of Nursia, in the Egyptian desert.

The Salafi movement attracts followers from various schools of fiqh, and is based on the Quran, Sunnah and the actions and sayings of the first three generations of Muslims.

Abraham Darby I ( 1678 – 1717 ) was the first, and most famous, of three generations with that name in an Abraham Darby family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution.

Due to his cognomen Afer, Terence has long been identified with Africa and heralded as the first poet of the African diaspora by generations of writers, including Juan Latino, Phyllis Wheatley, Alexandre Dumas, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou.

Espresso machines were introduced at the beginning of the 20th century when Luigi Bezzera of Milan filed the first patent in 1901., and although the first generations of machines certainly did not make espresso the way we define it today, coffee making in Cafés changed in the first decades of the 20th century.