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The Sunday Advertiser and Record American would ultimately be merged in 1972 into The Boston Herald Traveler a line of newspapers that stretched back to the old Boston Herald.
The line then stretched southeast with the centre bowed seawards away from the shoal.
The line the British chose to defend stretched between the sea and the Qattara Depression, which meant that Rommel could outflank it only by taking a significant detour to the south and crossing the Sahara Desert.
During winter the auk molted and lost this eye patch, which was replaced with a wide white band and a gray line of feathers which stretched from the eye to the ear.
The stalemate lasted from 1914 until early 1918, with ferocious battles that moved forces a few hundred yards at best along a line that stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
The processor was a significant evolution in the x86 architecture, and extended a long line of processors that stretched back to the Intel 8008.
God looks into the realm of temporal reality from outside of it, as though it were a surface or a line stretched out: the edges or ends of which are fully " visible " to God, so that He is in a somewhat spatial sense " omnipresent " with regard to time.
Perelman discovered the singularities were all very simple: essentially three-dimensional cylinders made out of spheres stretched out along a line.
An ordinary cylinder is made by taking circles stretched along a line.
The younger Willard Gibbs belonged to a long line of American academics and clergymen that stretched back to the 17th century.
The line of march was now stretched out perilously long — estimates are that it surpassed, and was perhaps as long as.
The extent of Harald's Danish Kingdom is unknown, although it is reasonable to believe that it stretched from the defensive line of Dannevirke, including the Viking city of Hedeby, across Jutland, the Danish isles and into southern present day Sweden ; Scania and perhaps Halland and Blekinge.
The Anglo-Saxons held the present counties of Kent, Sussex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and around the Humber ; it is clear that the native British controlled everything west of a line drawn from the mouth of the Wiltshire Avon at Christchurch north to the river Trent, then along the Trent to where it joined the Humber, then north along the river Derwent and east to the North Sea, and also controlled a salient to the north and west of London, and south of Verulamium, that stretched west to join their main territory.
From the end of the First Battle of Ypres, at the end of the Race to the Sea, until late 1918, the Western Front consisted of a relatively static line of trench systems which stretched from the coast of the North Sea southwards to the Swiss border.
At its organization on February 9, 1836, DeSoto County stretched from the Tennessee state line on the north to the Tate County line on the south ; from the Mississippi River and Tunica County on the west to Marshall County on the east.
The region served by the city even stretched into Idaho, south to Klamath Falls, Oregon and beyond, because of rail connections to the main line.
The piers, about from one another, stretched in a line from the dam to a point upriver.
Among the pioneer railroads was the Texas and Pacific which stretched its steel ribbons across the vastness of the State of Texas to the Arkansas line.
It was used as a commuter and freight line and stretched from Salt Lake to Payson in Utah County.
In August 1853, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway ( BBB & C ), began operating its first twenty miles ( 32 km ) of rail line that stretched from Harrisburg ( now Houston ) to Stafford's Point ( now Stafford ).
German supply lines stretched at the Marne ; the front line of the German Army had already broken into retreat before the rear had even arrived.
Apparently, the Algerians expected Cleaver to keep his protégés in line, which he described as increasingly difficult as their increasing numbers stretched his North Vietnamese allowance to the breaking point.
Trench warfare and tactics evolved further in the Crimean War and World War I, until systems of extensive main trenches, backup trenches ( in case the first lines were overrun ) and communication trenches often stretched dozens of kilometres along a front without interruption, and some kilometres further back from the front line.

line and from
A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.
Mike took the bayonet from Dean's hand and slashed the picket line.
The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.
The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??
so that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old South from the new, but with, of course, important minority enclaves.
The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.
The Fourth Corps assaulted and carried a small portion of the enemy works but could not hold possession of the gain for want of cooperation from the balance of the line.
At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).
Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.
Competition from other steamship lines has cut Cunard's share of sea passengers from one-third to one-fourth and this year the line showed a marked drop of profits on the Atlantic run.
The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.
There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.
It expanded from hand screw machines to automatic screw machines, from simple formed-tooth gear cutting machines to gear hobbing machines and a large contract gear manufacturing business, from rudimentary belt-driven universal milling machines to a broad line of elaborately controlled knee-type and manufacturing type milling machines.
Scribe a line across the bar on the other end of the tappet, 1/4'' '' plus half the diameter of the 2-56 screw head ( about 5/64'' '' ) away from the frame edge.
Then lay a three-inch-wide strip of cloth along the keel line from the transom to the point of the stem.
Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.
Borrowing a line from Don Marquis' Mehitabel.
Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.

0.124 seconds.