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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.

first and seconds
Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;
This might sound complex, but first of all the number of di-atomic molecules that can exist at the temperatures of the atomizers used in AAS is relatively small, and second, the correction is performed by the computer within a few seconds.
The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.
STS-51-F's first launch attempt on 12 July 1985 was halted with the countdown at T-3 seconds after main engine ignition, when a malfunction of the number two Space Shuttle Main Engine ( SSME ) coolant valve caused the shutdown of all three main engines.
In completing her first space flight, Coleman orbited the Earth 256 times, traveled over 6 million miles, and logged a total of 15 days, 21 hours, 52 minutes and 21 seconds in space.
Describing the work as " 57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit ", Lynch played the film on a loop at the Academy's annual end-of-year exhibit, where it shared joint first prize with a painting by Noel Mahaffey.
A league record-setting 105, 121 fans showed up to completely pack Cowboys Stadium for the game before which the traditional " blue star " at the 50 yard line was unveiled for the first time ; however, the Cowboys lost in the final seconds, 33 – 31.
The Steelers won Super Bowl X and Super Bowl XIII ; both games were decided in the final seconds, first on a last-second throw by Roger Staubach, then as a fourth-quarter rally by Dallas fell short on an onside kick.
Integrating + 1. 7 ms / d / cy and centering the resulting parabola on the year 1820 yields ( to a first approximation ) 31 ×(( Year − 1820 )/ 100 )< sup > 2 </ sup > seconds for ΔT.
White was the first to control his motion in space with a Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit, which worked well, but only carried enough propellant for 20 seconds.
The Atlas A first flew on 11 June 1957 ; the flight lasted only about 24 seconds before the rocket blew up.
Baltimore went on to win the first post-merger Super Bowl ( Super Bowl V ) defeating the National Football Conference's Dallas Cowboys 16 – 13, on a Jim O ' Brien field goal with five seconds left to play.
On October 29, 2005, Fox played the first few seconds of Minor Threat's " Salad Days " during an NFL broadcast.
The minute is a unit of time equal to 1 / 60 ( the first sexagesimal fraction ) of an hour or 60 seconds.
The format is a pair of integers separated by a comma, e. g. " 54321, 12345 " The first number is the number of days since December 31, 1840, i. e. day number 1 is January 1, 1841 ; the second is the number of seconds since midnight.
The firing sequence ( known as ripple firing ) required firing the first retro, followed by the second retro five seconds later ( while the first was still firing ).
On 5 August 1961, during practice for the 1961 German Grand Prix, Phil Hill became the first person to complete a lap of the Nordschleife in under 9 minutes, with a lap of 8 minutes 55. 2 seconds ( 153. 4 km / h or 95. 3 mph ) in the Ferrari 156 " Sharknose " Formula One car.
* 1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called " ten-second barrier " in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9. 95 seconds.
Renamed Turbo Pascal, it became hugely popular, thanks in part to an aggressive pricing strategy and in part to having one of the first full-screen Integrated development environments, and fast turnaround-time ( just seconds to compile, link, and run.
At the end of each 7 minute chukka, play continues for an additional 30 seconds or until a stoppage in play, whichever comes first.
The introduction of the pendulum, the first harmonic oscillator used in timekeeping, increased the accuracy of clocks enormously, from about 15 minutes per day to 15 seconds per day < ref >
In the 1, 500 m final at the Olympics in Paris, Nurmi ran the first 800 m almost three seconds faster.
The first study produced evidence for a spontaneous fission with a 0. 3 second half-life and another one at 8 seconds.

0.113 seconds.