Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

To get it out into the daylight's glow Is my life's aim both first and last, the whole.

if so, he would not be the first or last commanding officer who has succumbed to bad information and dubious estimates of the future.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.

February's volume was 1 per cent above January's for the first pickup since last October, although it's still 1.5 per cent off from February 1960.

Escalation is their first love and their last ; ;

It was not until the last year of his life that he had his first moneymaking show.

Fiscal year taxpayers have until the last day of the first month following the close of the fiscal year ( farmers until the 15th day of the 2d month ).

Let me say at the outset that the music sounded as sparkling on the last playing as it did on the first.

For example, instead of putting in your driveways last ( as many builders do ) you can now save money by putting them in first.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

In analyzing this regulation, let us take the last sentence first.

In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

The first section of this publication appeared in 1948 and the last supplement in 1960.

Then comes the time when the last wire is removed and Susie walks out a healthier and more attractive girl than when she first went to the orthodontist.

It was the conclusion of the first phase of a process of tragic recollection, and of refining the recollection, that will last as long as there are Jews.

To quote Professor Saintsbury: `` The last glass of claret or Burgundy is as good as the first ; ;

but the first glass of Chateau d'Yquem or Montrachet is a great deal better than the last ''!!

I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.

She was the last living of the older generation.

The fact that metropolitan churches of the major denominations have moved approximately every generation for the last hundred years becomes somewhat more intelligible in the light of this struggle to maintain economic balance.

The local consumption of beer has risen dramatically in the last generation: Argentines consumed 233 million liters in 1980 and 1. 57 billion in 2007 ( 40 liters per capita ).

Tardive Dysphrenia: The newest challenge to the last generation atypical antipsychotics drugs?

The last holder of the title, Kung Te-cheng of the 77th generation, was appointed Sacrificial Official to Confucius.

By 1721, a whole generation of young Bostonians was vulnerable and memories of the last epidemic's horrors had by and large disappeared.

Disco was the last mass popular music movement that was driven by the baby boom generation.

Currently, most electrochemical power comes from closed electrochemical cells (" batteries "), which are arguably utilized more as storage systems than generation systems ; but open electrochemical systems, known as fuel cells, have been undergoing a great deal of research and development in the last few years.

The generation of Indo-Europeanists active in the last third of the 20th century ( such as Calvert Watkins, Jochem Schindler and Helmut Rix ) developed a better understanding of morphology and, in the wake of Kuryłowicz's 1956 Apophonie, understanding of the ablaut.

The principles of imperialism are often deeply connected to the policies and practices of British Imperialism " during the last generation, and proceeds rather by diagnosis than by historical description.

The provisions are that any " first generation " product must be labeled " irradiated " as any product derived directly from an irradiated raw material ; for ingredients the provision is that even the last molecule of an irradiated ingredient must be listed with the ingredients even in cases where the unirradiated ingredient does not appear on the label.

' Many live in less-productive, problem-prone areas, some of which have been so seriously degraded within the last generation that they resemble lands on the edge of the Sahara Desert.

This was one of the last and most important experiments disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.

Eventually Sumer was unified by Eannatum, but the unification was tenuous and failed to last as the Akkadians conquered Sumeria in 2331 BC only a generation later.

The Akkadian Empire was the first successful empire to last beyond a generation and see the peaceful succession of kings.

It powered the last generation of large piston-engined planes before jet engines and turboprops took over from 1944 onward.

He was a waka poet who belonged to the youngest generation represented in the anthology ; indeed, the last volume is dominated by his poems.

Representative of the last generation of black American leaders born in slavery, he spoke on behalf of the large majority of blacks who lived in the South but had lost their ability to vote through disfranchisement by southern legislatures.

Representing the last generation of black leaders born into slavery, Washington was generally perceived as a supporter of education for freedmen in the post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow-era South.

The last literary generation of the 19th century signaled a decided break with the past and the advent of modernism-after the wave of optimism in the wake of the French Revolution at the beginning of the century, the lack of progress in implementing these ideals of freedom and brotherhood led to both a skepticism toward the possibility of ever achieving these ideals, and renewed efforts to do so.

Their aggressive sound and dark atmospheres came out as a perfect segue from Psyche's last release and brought Darrin to the audience of the 90's generation.

They studied a style called Jikyo-ryū under the fifth and last generation headmasters Yamamura Masashige.

In Norway, for example, the parliament passed a family name act in 1923, citing the rising population and the need to avoid the confusion of new last names in every generation.

After his death, Horne was eulogised in The Times as " a master of the scandalous double-meaning delivered with shining innocence ," while The Sunday Mirror called him " one of the few personalities who bridged the generation gap " and " perhaps the last of the truly great radio comics.

According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be " the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists ".