But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

Ortega's hope that modern psychology might yet bring forth a last flowering of the novel has only been partially fulfilled.

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

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

His successor, Secretary Goldberg, also has been guessing wrong on a drop in the unemployment rate which has been holding just under 7 per cent for the last 11 months.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

In the last few years the telephone company has managed to automate many areas of their service.

They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.

The school year does not end for any student until he has completed his last examination of the semester.

This carbine ( under $140, about $15 more for a deluxe grade ) has an 18-1/2-inch barrel and was obviously inspired by the popularity of last year's Model 760 pump with a short-barrel.

The controversy of the last few years over whether architects or interior designers should plan the interiors of modern buildings has brought clearly into focus one important difference of opinion.

Indeed, it has only been a matter of the last few years that reputable schools of art have granted degrees at all.

For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.

Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.

In the last few years, the application of chromatographic and other modern techniques to the problem of isolating TSH has led to further purification ( Bates and Condliffe, 1960 ; ;

Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

These effects rarely last more than a few weeks or months.

The highest honour in the Japanese honours system, the Collar of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, has only been conferred upon select Prime Ministers and eminent statesmen, and rarely when they were still alive ; the last such award to a living Prime Minister was to Saionji Kinmochi in 1928.

Very rarely, the chirping will last for several minutes.

The '- gee ', '- helion ' and '- astron ' and '- galacticon ' forms are frequently used in the astronomical literature, while the other listed forms are occasionally used, although '- saturnium ' has very rarely been used in the last 50 years.

The first half of the last verse is rarely heard.

Though in actuality, Adam has rarely been seen in the last couple of years, and Betty has always been shown to prefer Archie.

This contrasts with television episodes ( which must begin and conclude in 22 to 26 minutes ) and with films ( which rarely last more than two hours ).

Leave is rarely granted, meaning that for most litigants, provincial courts of appeal are courts of last resort.

Frost occurs very rarely, and the last snowfall in the city took place in January 1893, when snow also fell at Guangzhou, Macau, in the inland parts of Hong Kong and in the hills of Taipei.

After the Battle of Jutland, the German High Seas Fleet rarely ventured out of its bases at Wilhelmshaven and Kiel, and in the last two years of the war the British fleet was considered to have such a commanding superiority of the seas that some components moved south, to the first-class dockyard at Rosyth.

Confessions of Zeno never looks outside the narrow confines of Trieste, much like Joyce's work, which rarely left Dublin in the last years of Ireland's time as part of the United Kingdom.

In practice however, with the exception of the appointment of a prime minister there are few circumstances in modern British government where these could be justifiably exercised ; they have rarely been exercised in the last century.

It is certainly not the last but subsequent stories rarely focus on it.

Although both characters were bigoted and intolerant, Bill usually had the last laugh and rarely got his comeuppance.

More rarely, a side may also win by imprisoning its opponent's last remaining piece.

While this last set of rules are quite confusing, they are rarely needed, because a student who competes in D-1 one year rarely returns to D-2 the following year.

The Court now sits only rarely, and the last full sitting was in 1914.

Since for at least the last two centuries the estate has been run by a deputy, the Chancellor has rarely had any significant duties pertaining to management of the Duchy itself.

Like the adult, the subimago stage does not last for long, rarely for more than 24 hours.

His last few months, he was administered opium for the pain and was rarely fully conscious.

Launceston very rarely receives snowfall, the last cases of snow were in 1951 and 1986.

During the last year of James's life, with Buckingham consolidating his control of Charles to ensure his own future, the king was often seriously ill, leaving him an increasingly peripheral figure, rarely able to visit London.

Before the last half of the 20th century, celery was rarely used in Creole gumbo.