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.

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

The first newspaper comic strips appeared in North America in the late 19th century.

The first comic book appeared in the United States in 1933, reprinting the earlier newspaper comic strips, which established many of the story-telling devices used in comics.

The term " comic book " arose because the first comic books reprinted humor comic strips.

On February 20, 2008, the first of a series of Dilbert strips showed Wally being caught posting a comic strip which " compares managers to drunken lemurs ".

* Trudeau received “ Certificates of Achievement ” from the US Army 4th Battalion 67th Armor Regiment and the Ready First Brigade in 1991 for his comic strips dealing with the first Gulf War.

Common dishes are: mashed potatoes, which are first boiled ( usually peeled ), and then mashed with milk or yogurt and butter ; whole baked potatoes ; boiled or steamed potatoes ; French-fried potatoes or chips ; cut into cubes and roasted ; scalloped, diced, or sliced and fried ( home fries ); grated into small thin strips and fried ( hash browns ); grated and formed into dumplings, Rösti or potato pancakes.

The outer rind is first stripped off, and the sticky fibrous inner pith is cut lengthwise into thin strips of about long.

The first mouldboard ploughs could only turn the soil over in one direction ( conventionally always to the right ), as dictated by the shape of the mouldboard, and so the field had to be ploughed in long strips, or lands.

Created and drawn by Richard F. Outcault in the comic strip Hogan's Alley ( and later under other names as well ), it was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper, although its graphical layout had already been thoroughly established in political and other, purely-for-entertainment cartoons.

His nightshirt, a hand-me-down from an older sister, was white or pale blue in the first color strips.

Richard F Outcault's last Hogan's Alley cartoon for Truth magazine, Fourth Ward Brownies, was published on 9 February 1895 and reprinted in the New York World newspaper on 17 February 1895, beginning one of the first comic strips in an American newspaper.

A forerunner to beaded wire may be the notched strips and wires which first occur from around 2000 BC in Anatolia.

Warlock magazine ( first published by Puffin Books and later Games Workshop ) provided additional information on the Fighting Fantasy universe, and each issue featured a gamebook, new rules, monsters, reviews and comic strips.

The first references to hosiery can be found in works of Hesiod, where Romans are said to have used leather or cloth in forms of strips to cover their lower body parts.

The first material called " duck tape " was long strips of plain cotton duck cloth used in making shoes stronger, for decoration on clothing, and for wrapping steel cables or electrical conductors to protect them from corrosion or wear.

The first of these, Cinerama, debuted in September 1952, and consisted of three strips of 35mm film projected side-by-side onto a giant, curved screen, augmented by seven channels of stereophonic sound.

This changed in 1846 when Samuel Phillippe made the first six strips of Calcutta cane.

In 1985 Smiffy has appeared in two spin-off strips the first called Says Smiffy, which ran from 1971 – 1972, and the second called Simply Smiffy, which ran from 1985 – 1987, where he starred alongside his brother Normal Norman.

John of Salisbury is one of the first examples related by Richard Kieckhefer, but as a Parisian ecclesiastical court record of 1323 shows, a " group who were plotting to invoke the demon Berich from inside a circle made from strips of cat skin ," were obviously participating in the church ’ s definition of " necromancy ".

The young cousins added features such as advice columns and homegrown comic strips like Little Orphan Annie and Moon Mullins, then turned to " crusades ", with their first success coming with the ouster of the Republican political boss of Illinois, Sen. William Lorimer.

Apart from the newspaper strips, Disney Br ' er Rabbit comics were also produced for comic books ; the first such stories appeared in late 1946.

He was hired by William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Evening American, where he produced his first comic strips, Fillum Fables ( 1924 ) and The Radio Catts.