Seven of the eight companies that turn out full lines of farm machinery say sales by their dealers since the start of August have shown gains averaging nearly 10% above last year.

In 1860, the last national political party, the Democratic Party, split along sectional lines.

Caesar knew this would be his last stand as they had run out of supplies and with no lines of retreat they would be at Pompey's mercy and likely slaughtered if they lost the battle.

For example, Baldrick is reduced to making coffee from mud and cooking rats, while General Melchett hatches a plan for the troops to walk very slowly toward the German lines, because " it'll be the last thing Fritz will expect.

He met the deadline only after being locked in a room by Brinnin's assistant, Liz Reitell, and was still editing the script on the afternoon of the performance, its last lines were handed to the actors as they were putting on their make-up.

In return, ed lists all lines, from first to last.

) In the second instance, Banks is preparing for an Easter service and attempts to show off his prowess by singing the last two lines of the chorus ; Smith jokingly replies with his own version, in which he makes a joke about Carlton's height.

It looked like a 3 – 2 win for England with Hurst as the hero with the winning goal but in the last seconds, as the Germans were pushing everyone forward to seek the equalizer, Moore cleared his lines with a long ball over the German defence.

The ordination of a priest occurs before the Anaphora ( Eucharistic Prayer ) in order that he may on the same day take part in the celebration of the Eucharist: During the Great Entrance, the candidate for ordination carries the Aër ( chalice veil ) over his head ( rather than on his shoulder, as a deacon otherwise carries it then ) as a symbol of giving up his diaconate, and comes last in the procession and stands at the end of the pair of lines of the priests.

* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.

The text records conversations between Caílte mac Rónáin and Oisín, the last surviving members of the Fianna, and Saint Patrick, and consists of about 8, 000 lines.

Tony West, his lawyer, explained it as follows :" One of the first things he told Army interrogators when they questioned him on December 3 of last year was that after 9 / 11 happened, he wanted to leave the front lines but couldn't for fear of his life.

The first two lines are called premises, and the last line the conclusion.

This Telegony aside, the last 548 lines of the Odyssey, corresponding to Book 24, are believed by many scholars to have been added by a slightly later poet.

The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate ; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final.

The final scene features the last few lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Only the last 14 lines of the hieroglyphic text can be seen ; all of them are broken on the right side, and 12 of them on the left.

The last two lines.

The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g ; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.

Accepting Aradia as the source of skyclad practice, Robert Chartowich points to the 1998 Pazzaglini translation of these lines, which read " Men and Women / You will all be naked, until / Yet he shall be dead, the last / Of your oppressors is dead.

The TBS airings were edited to reduce running time ( presumably for more advertising space ); cutting out certain lines, even rearranging the stand-up scenes position in the episodes ; as well as showing the credits earlier during the last scenes.

Each successive stanza takes its pattern based upon a bottom-up pairing of the lines of the preceding stanza ( i. e., last and first, then second-from-last and second, then third-from-last and third ).

This play would later be immortalized by one of the last great lines from John Facenda who said, " Here comes Marcus Allen, running with the night.

The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy ; the Odyssey describes Odysseus's journey home.

The siege of Troy provided inspiration for many works of art, most famously Homer's Iliad, set in the last year of the siege.

Ancient commentators noted that Virgil seems to divide the Aeneid into two sections based on the poetry of Homer ; the first six books were viewed as employing the Odyssey as a model while the last six were connected to the Iliad.

In the last section of Iliad, Moira is the " mighty fate " ( μοίρα κραταιά: moira krataia ) who leads destiny and the course of events.

When released he returned to Milan, and there gave the last touches to his Ortis, published a translation of and commentary upon Callimachus, commenced a version of the Iliad and began his translation of Lawrence Sterne's Sentimental Journey.

Three years after his death appeared also the last twelve books of the Iliad, published by his son Samuel Clarke, the first three of these books and part of the fourth having, as he states, been revised and annotated by his father.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

He edited the last twelve books of the Odyssey, with valuable appendices on the composition of the poem, its relation to the Iliad and the cyclic poets, the history of the text, the dialects, and the Homeric house ; a critical text of the poems and fragments ( Homeri opera et reliquiae, 1896 ); Homeri opera ( 1902, with T. W. Allen, in the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis ); and an edition of the Iliad with notes for schools.

The only important exception was the translation of the last twelve books of the Iliad in the Spenserian stanza in completion of the work of P. S.

Famous individuals connected with Edessa include: Jacob Baradaeus, the real chief of the Syriac Miaphysites known after him as Jacobites ; Stephen Bar Sudaïli, monk and pantheist, to whom was owing, in Palestine, the last crisis of Origenism in the 6th century ; Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, a fertile writer ( d. 708 ); Theophilus the Maronite, an astronomer, who translated into Syriac verse Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ; the anonymous author of the Chronicon Edessenum ( Chronicle of Edessa ), compiled in 540 ; the writer of the story of " The Man of God ", in the 5th century, which gave rise to the legend of St. Alexius, also known as Alexius of Rome ( because exiled Eastern monks brought his cult and bones to Rome in the 10th century ).

His last major work was an ongoing project to render Homer's Iliad into a modernist idiom.

Herein the following five chapters are purported to have been found in the last of six volumes in small quarto ( 1715 – 20 ) of Alexander Pope's Iliad.

Vorian Atreides is, ironically, the son and subordinate of the leading cymek Titan Agamemnon ( whose last name, Atreides, originates with House Atreus, from the ancient Greek epic the Iliad ).

The national poet of Greece, Dionysios Solomos, composed a poem titled " On Markos Botsaris ", in which he likens the mourning over Botsaris ' body to the lamentation of Hector, as described in the last book of the Iliad.

For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;

There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching to him last year.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

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 last roof boards are covered with blocks from outside the shelter.

Lands in this last category are situated largely in the mountainous portions of the Eastern States.

But even he will not last indefinitely and the above-noted new arrangements are, quite simply, made to assure qualitative continuity in the Foundation's policies and practices.

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.

The markets are far too subtle, and the last word in these endeavors will doubtless never be written, for the enchanting index is about as nebulous as the fountain of youth.

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.

The last three volumes are again more dependent on the past, as Hardy's creative powers declined in his old age.

Remarks may appear to the right of the last parameter on each card provided they are separated from the operand by at least two blank spaces.

Yet last year's volume probably topped 100 million lb. and expectations are for a market of 275 million lb. by 1964.

If so, are you saying, `` Where did the last few years go??

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.

This is the story of his last tragic voyage, as nearly as we are able -- or ever, probably, will be able -- to determine:

This last point is important because if high school pupils are aware that few, if any, graduates who have chosen a certain vocational program have obtained a job as a consequence of the training, the whole idea of relevance disappears.

It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

In the last eight years, all Presidential appointments, including those of cabinet rank, have been denied immediate action because of a Senate rule requiring at least a 24 hour delay after they are reported to the floor.

`` We are now witnessing an effort to transfer to Mr. Mitchell some of the glow of Sen. Case's candidacy of last year.

The three Laotians agreed upon a six-point agenda for their talks, which are to last three days.

Ryne Duren and Roland Sheldon, a rookie righthander who posted a 15-1 record last year for the Yanks' Auburn ( N.Y. ) farm club of the Class-D New York-Pennsylvania League, are the probable rival pitchers.