Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

In connection with our continuing development of new and more efficient mill machinery, a sounder U. S. income tax policy on depreciation of production equipment, enabling the mills to charge off the cost of new machines on a more realistic basis, could, if adopted, have favorable effects on Leesona's business in the next few years.

The next phase in the development of Cuyp ’ s increasingly amalgamated style is due to the influence of Jan Both.

The result was not actually a democracy or a real civic state, but he enabled the development of a fully democratic government, which would emerge in the next generation as the demos realized its power.

The next thirty years were marked by small scale revolts against French rule and the development of a plantation-style economy.

The next step in development was rifle shaped stocks that allowed better aiming.

The next development was the worship of the products of agriculture, from which he contends the cults of Demeter and Dionysus arose.

Some of the major national development projects include the New Kabul City next to the capital, the Ghazi Amanullah Khan City east of Jalalabad, and the Aino Mena in Kandahar.

In the next few years various others took part in this development of animated cartoons in the United States and elsewhere.

Only in the upward development of the soul do human beings find happiness in this life and the next, for if the soul is unhappy, a person will be miserable regardless of how materially wealthy he or she may be.

The modeled highway construction emphasized hope for the future as it served as a proposed solution to traffic congestion of the day, and demonstrated the probable development of traffic in proportion to the automotive growth of the next twenty years.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the development of the Westrex single-groove stereophonic record cutterhead led to the next wave of home-audio improvement, and in common parlance, stereo displaced hi-fi.

The next major development came from behavioral psychology in American university research.

Punishment for communicating about a development pertinent to the next day's stock price might seem to be an act of censorship.

Within the next century, however, European and Asian economies were slowly becoming integrated through the rise of new global trade routes ; and the early thrust of European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to a growing trade in lucrative commodities — a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy

The next important development in jazz guitar came in the mid to late-1930s with the advent of electrical amplification.

The perfection of the invention required much more development work before it could be routinely used by others, but this was carried out over the next few years.

The city market, in existence since 1909, was approved to be sold for a multi-building mixed-use development called MarketPlace, right next to the current market on the adjacent riverfront.

Furthermore the human experience of time itself was altered, with the development of electric telegraph from 1837, and the adoption of standard time by British railway companies from 1845, and in the rest of the world over the next fifty years.

The university was designed in the Brutalist style and developed by the renowned town planner Walter Abraham who also oversaw the next 20 years of planning and development for the university.

The next development was the paper pad system.

The next development in optical theory came in 1899 when Max Planck correctly modelled blackbody radiation by assuming that the exchange of energy between light and matter only occurred in discrete amounts he called quanta.

It soon became clear to many of those involved in PET development that a circular or cylindrical array of detectors was the logical next step in PET instrumentation.

Following recent discoveries and oil fields currently under development, Congo's oil production is expected to continue to rise significantly in the next few years.

Poaching and the absence of fires, which had been the result of human activity, set the stage for the development of dense woodlands and thickets over the next 30 – 50 years.

d ) they could not be certain that the two halves of the map, held together by a binding strip glued on the back, had ever been a single sheet — unlike any other known medieval double-page map ; looking at the map, it is clear that the artist knew exactly, to the nearest millimeter, where it was going to be folded, because several place-names start or finish right next to it while none are written straight across it, and the rivers of eastern Europe run parallel to it ;

It is based on an old parlour game known by the same name ( and also as Consequences ) in which players wrote in turn on a sheet of paper, folded it to conceal part of the writing, and then passed it to the next player for a further contribution.

It should simply be folded ready for the next use.

After the company folded following the stock market crash of 1929, Knox returned to London, Ontario where for the next two years he worked as a reporter for The London Advertiser before moving to London, England where, during the 1930s he appeared in several films.

The company continued operations for the next eight years, with backers including the King, the Duke of York and the Royal Society, with operations including engaging in the West Africa slave trade until it folded in 1670.

Folded brochures of any size can be made by using sheets of the next larger size, e. g. A4 sheets are folded to make A5 brochures.

When the smoker is finished, either the hose is placed back on the table signifying that it is available, or it is handed from one user to the next, folded back on itself so that the mouthpiece is not pointing at the recipient.

Hampton folded on February 10, 1978, but was replaced the next year by the New Brunswick Hawks.

The Wanderers would win only 15 of their next 44 games in two seasons, before the NHA folded.

Cousy had refused to report to the club that had drafted him ( ironically, the Blackhawks, Auerbach's old club ), and because his next team ( the Chicago Stags ) folded, he ended up with the Celtics.

" is seen by a picture of the folded paper displaying its masthead ; next to this is the tagline punning on the exclamation: " A thoroughly decent read ".

The company issued two baseball and one football sets ( all three composed of retired players ) over the next three years before it folded in 1995.

Depending on the circumstances, the hands are folded modestly in the lap, or are placed palm down on the upper thighs with the fingers close together, or are placed on the floor next to the hips, with the knuckles rounded and touching the floor.

In 1890 he jumped to the Players ' League, but returned to the Phillies the next year when that league folded.

Starting with the 1999 – 2000 season and the abolition of the Cup Winners ' Cup ( which was then folded into the UEFA Cup ), the DFB-Pokal winner now automatically qualified for the UEFA Cup alongside, depending on the DFB's UEFA coefficients standing, between one and three extra participants ( if the DFB-Pokal winner also qualified for the Champions League, they were replaced by the DFB-Pokal runner-up ; if they were also qualified for the Champions League, the UEFA Cup place went to the next best placed team in the league not otherwise qualified for European competition ).

It became famous at the act of transition and removal of the flag when he put the folded flag next to his heart.

In the next season, the Moose Jaw team folded, but the WCHL returned to Saskatoon with a new franchise, the Saskatoon Crescents, led by Newsy Lalonde.

Triangles are folded from mutlitple pieces of 1: 2 aspect ratio paper, and connected by inserting a flap of one triangle into a pocket on the next.

The team folded at the end of the season and Rongen moved to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers where he would remain for the next three seasons.

He returned to F1 the next season, with the Pacific Grand Prix team, and drove for Forti in 1996 alongside countryman Luca Badoer until the team folded.

He participated in 7 Formula One Grands Prix for Simtek, debuting on October 16, 1994, and finishing when the team folded the next year.

When it folded with its Spring 1944 issue, the series of novels was continued for some time in the pages of Startling ; over the next six years ten more " Captain Future " novels appeared, with the last one, Birthplace of Creation, printed in the May 1951 issue.

The device was small enough when folded flat to fit next to an audio cassette in a standard case.

The EISL folded the next year.