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last and two
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
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.
I will mention two volumes of specific comment on this malaise that appeared last year.
The last two were a red and a black chow.
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.
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.
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.
He said he had No. 2's enough to last two weeks more.
It should be easier to plug two spots than it was to fill the wholesale lots that were open last year, but so far it hasn't worked that way.
This machine was demonstrated in two textile machinery exhibitions last year and was well received by the industry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.
Therefore, the scholar, as he looks at our national folklore of the last 60 years, will be mindful of two facts.
The last two writers introduce strong political bias into their works, and not unlike the union leaders that we will discuss soon, see folklore as a reservoir of protest by a downtrodden and publically silenced mass.
He had written out the license number of his car but had transposed the last two figures, an old dodge which is still good.
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.
I never did miss one in a playoff game -- I kicked about 20 in the five playoff games my last two years ''.
-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.
A baby was burned to death and two other children were seriously injured last night in a fire which damaged their one-room Anne Arundel county home.
About 70 North Providence taxpayers made appeals to the board of tax assessors for a review of their 1961 tax assessments during the last two days at the town hall in Centredale.
These were the last two days set aside by the board for hearing appeals.

last and paragraphs
Although spin and the Pauli principle can only be derived from relativistic generalizations of quantum mechanics the properties mentioned in the last two paragraphs belong to the basic postulates already in the non-relativistic limit.
In Avenger, one of the events that allows the Avenger to escape is unexplained until the last few paragraphs.
If Americans Knew published an article that claimed that Palestinian deaths are often placed in the last two paragraphs of articles published by The New York Times.
Only the Chaplain remains, and he has definitely been got ( although in the last paragraphs he announces his intent to " stay here and persevere ").
The last four paragraphs of this chapter return to the format of moral aphorisms attributed to specific rabbis.
Another way is to think of orphans as generally being younger than widows ; thus, orphaned lines happen first, at the start of paragraphs ( affecting and stranding the first line ), and widowed lines happen last, at the end of paragraphs ( affecting and stranding the last line ).
It consists, according to the edition of Basel, of 1, 172 paragraphs ; according to the last edition, of 1, 903.
In his autobiography, Jefferson claimed that he wrote the first draft, but Dickinson objected that it was too radical, and so Congress allowed Dickinson to write a more moderate version, keeping only the last four-and-a-half paragraphs of Jefferson's draft.
In 1967 articles 10 and 26 were integrated by a constitutional provision which established that their last paragraphs ( which forbid the extradition of a foreigner for political offences ) do not apply in case of crimes of genocide.

last and Church's
The struggle between Church's and King's power is the main theme of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth, of which one of the last scenes features the murder of Thomas Becket.
His last known work, entitled A Defence of the Church's Right in Leasehold Estates, appeared as early as 1731.
The Bull begins with Christ's warning against false prophets, especially such as " secretly spread evil doctrines under the guise of piety and introduce ruinous sects under the image of sanctity "; then it proceeds to the condemnation of 101 propositions which are taken verbatim from the last edition of Quesnel's work such as: grace works with omnipotence and is irresistible ; without grace man can only commit sin ; Christ died for the elect only ; every love that is not supernatural is evil ; without supernatural love there can be no hope in God, no obedience to His law, no good work, no prayer, no merit, no religion ; the prayer of the sinner and his other good acts performed out of fear of punishment are only new sins ; the Church comprises only the just and the elect ; the reading of the Bible is binding on all ; sacramental absolution should be postponed till after satisfaction ; the chief pastors can exercise the Church's power of excommunication only with the consent, at least presumed, of the whole body of the Church ; unjust excommunication does not exclude the excommunicated from union with the Church.
Created cardinal ( June 11, 1847 ), one of the Church's last true cardinal deacons, he was chosen by Pius IX to preside over the council of state entrusted with the drafting of a constitution for the Papal States.
Each of these four gatherings reflected on the significance and outcomes of Edinburgh 1910 over the last century. They also looked to the future of the Church's global mission in the century ahead.
" His last Encyclical is on the Holy Eucharist, which he says " contains the Church's entire spiritual wealth: Christ himself.
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland last met here in 1929, when the Church of Scotland united with the United Free Church of Scotland, thereafter using the former United Free Church's Assembly Hall on The Mound ( and continuing to this day.

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