It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

For each State ( except Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ) determine average per capita income based on the last three years.

Determine the average per capita income for the U. S. based on the last three years.

For each State ( except the Virgin Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ), determine the average per capita income for the last three years.

Determine the average per capita income for the United States for the last three years.

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

I closed the last bag and stood all three at the door for the bellboy to pick up, then went to the bathroom for a drink of water.

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.

The safe is a repository for three dead flashlight batteries, a hundred and fifty unused left-hand fingerprint cards, a stack of unsold Policemen's Ball tickets from last year, and thirty-seven cents in coins and stamps.

Some anti-organization Democrats saw in the program an opportunity to end the bitter internal fight within the Democratic party that has been going on for the last three years.

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

Keegan, a 6-foot-3-inch 158-pounder, gave up the Orioles' last two safeties over the final three frames, escaping a load of trouble in the ninth when the Birds threatened but failed to tally.

Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.

He bogeyed the 15th by missing a short putt and finally scrambled through the last three holes without further mishap for a 2-over-par 74 and a 72-hole total of 280.

Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters -- four last year and three this -- without ever being out of first place.

Francois D'Albert, Hungarian-born violinist who made his New York debut three years ago, played a return engagement last night in Judson Hall.

Mischa Elman shared last night's Lewisohn Stadium concert with three American composers.

Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth -- the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.

I will mention two volumes of specific comment on this malaise that appeared last year.

The philosophical works, occupying the first six and the last of the twenty-one volumes, are generally divided according to the Aristotelian scheme of the sciences, and consist of interpretations and condensations of Aristotle's relative works, with supplementary discussions upon contemporary topics, and occasional divergences from the opinions of the master.

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

The works of Anderson amount to six thin quarto volumes, and as the last of them was published in 1619, it is probable that the author died soon after that year, but the precise date is unknown.

The first of his four volumes appeared in 1940 ( the year he retired ) and the last in 1953, two years before his death.

The last encyclopedia of the four, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau, amounted to 9. 4 million Chinese characters in 1, 000 written volumes.

The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.

In 1847, Emily published her novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three-volume set ( the last volume being Agnes Grey by her sister Anne ).

The last volumes in her most famous series were published in 1963.

The Ōmi Code, consisting of 22 volumes, was promulgated in the last year of Tenji's reign.

Most of Palestrina's masses appeared in thirteen volumes printed between 1554 and 1601, the last seven published after his death.

In these volumes, the last of which was completed when she was about 75, Hildegard first describes each vision, then interprets them through Biblical exegesis.

The Grammar was continued in three volumes, treating principally derivation, composition and syntax, the last of which was unfinished.

One recent study notes that the difference between summer and winter flow volumes has increased significantly in the last 100 – 200 years.

The 125th and last fascicle, covering words from Wise to the end of W, was published on 19 April 1928, and the full Dictionary in bound volumes followed immediately.

In the last five to six decades, professionals and scientists using the metric system of units defined the standard reference conditions of temperature and pressure for expressing gas volumes as being and 101. 325 KPa ( 1 atm or 760 Torr ).

His last volumes were Tordenskjold ( 1833 ), Dronning Margrethe ( 1833 ), Sokrates ( 1835 ), Olaf den Hellige ( 1836 ), Knud den Store ( 1838 ), Dina ( 1842 ), Erik Glipping ( 1843 ), and Kiartan og Gudrun ( 1847 ).

Several of his works, including the last two volumes of The Metamorphosis of the Gods ( L ' Irréel and L ' Intemporel ) are not yet available in English translation.

When OUP arrived on Indian shores, it was preceded by the immense prestige of the Sacred Books of the East, edited by Friedrich Max Müller, which had at last reached completion in 50 ponderous volumes.

Edward Stratemeyer and Howard Garis wrote most of the volumes in the original series ; Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, wrote the last three volumes.

He appears in the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings ( The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers ), and is mentioned in the last volume, The Return of the King.