As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

The second productive period, the decade from 1910 to 1920, can be related to three events: the completion of The Dynasts in 1909, which left Hardy free of pressure for the first time in forty years ; ;

The practical definition may lead to confusion with the definition of a coulomb ( i. e., 1 amp-second ), but in practical terms this means that measures of a constant current ( e. g., the nominal flow of charge per second through a simple circuit ) will be defined in amperes ( e. g., " a 20 mA circuit ") and the flow of charge through a circuit over a period of time will be defined in coulombs ( e. g., " a variable-current circuit that flows a total of 10 coulombs over 5 seconds ").

The Falcons had the NFL's second best winning percentage at home during the period of 2008 to 2010 with a. 833 percentage.

Their best finish of this period was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver, when in 1954 – 55 they finished as runners-up, after Udinese who originally finished second were relegated for corruption.

During this period he also completed two woodcut series, the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin, both published in 1511 together with a second edition of the Apocalypse series.

Sicily, ever since P. Orsi excavated the Sicel cemetery near Lentini in 1877, has proved a mine of early remains, among which appear in regular succession Aegean fabrics and motives of decoration from the period of the second stratum at Hissarlik.

* In the classic 70s period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, a major character in the second season, which is circa 1909-10, is Thomas Watkins, the devious Bellamy family chauffeur.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

The White Stockings finished the season in second place, but ultimately were forced to drop out of the league during the city's recovery period, finally returning to National Association play in 1874.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Determining the composition of the Memorial depends on the dates of Nehemiah's mission: It is commonly accepted that " Artaxerxes " was Artaxerxes I ( there were two later kings of the same name ), and that Nehemiah's first period in Jerusalem was therefore 445-433 BC ; allowing for his return to Susa and second journey to Jerusalem, the end of the 5th century BC is therefore the earliest possible date for the Memorial.

The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age system, as proposed in modern times by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, for classifying and studying ancient societies.

The second is the lower sea levels that occurred during the Carboniferous as compared to the Devonian period.

The second set – from the later Shang or Yin ( 殷 ) period – is at Anyang, in modern-day Henan, which has been confirmed as the last of the Shang's nine capitals ( c. 1300 – 1046 BC ).

Pretribulationists believe that the second coming will be in two stages separated by a seven-year period of tribulation.

The " thousand years " is an expression, a way of referring to the entire period from the first coming of Christ, two thousand years ago, until the future second coming.

During the second period, the Protestants present asked for renewed discussion on points already defined and for bishops to be released from their oaths of allegiance to the Pope.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

The first viewpoint is that emotions are discrete and fundamentally different constructs while the second viewpoint asserts that emotions can be characterized on a dimensional basis in groupings.

The wasps, bees, and ants together make up the suborder Apocrita, characterized by a constriction between the first and second abdominal segments called a wasp-waist ( petiole ), also involving the fusion of the first abdominal segment to the thorax.

The second conjugation is characterized by the vowel ē, and can be recognized by the-eō ending of the first person present indicative and the-ēre ending of the present active infinitive form.

Nonetheless, growing tensions with several countries, including the United States, characterized the second half of López's rule.

The second year class is characterized by skulls 55-95mm long, but still immature.

In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trends to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt political and social critiques.

The second protection level of the steganographic system, as well as all levels of protection of the higher orders, is characterized by the use of Key ( password ) via steganographic modification.

The second half of the millennium is characterized as the Early Middle Ages in Europe, and marked by the Viking expansion in the west, the rise of the Byzantine Empire in the east, and by the Islamic conquests throughout the Near East, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula, culminating in the Islamic Golden Age ( 700 – 1200 AD ).

Increasing populations in the small towns of the north and west characterized the second period of urban growth, which began around 1750 in response to shifts in Swedish trade patterns from the Baltic to the North Atlantic.

Used generally to describe a series of economic events from the second half of the 15th century to the first half of the 17th, the price revolution refers most specifically to the relatively high rate of inflation that characterized the period across Western Europe, with prices on average rising perhaps sixfold over 150 years.

Ceaușescu's second decade was characterized by an increasingly brutal and repressive regime — by some accounts, the most Stalinist regime in the Soviet bloc.

The second variety is black music from the Chota Valley in the northern Sierra ( primarily known as Bomba del Chota ), characterized by a more-pronounced mestizo and Indian influence than marimba esmeraldeña.

He composed longer pieces on a Persian War theme, including Dirge for the Fallen at Thermopylae, Battle at Artemisium and Battle at Salamis but their genres are not clear from the fragmentary remains-the first was labelled by Diodorus Siculus as an encomium but it was probably a hymn and the second was characterized in the Suda as elegiac yet Priscian, in a comment on prosody, indicated that it was composed in lyric meter.

A second effect of this " most disgraceful event in Greek history ", as Will Durant characterized it, was the establishment of Sparta in a formalized position at the top of a Greek political system enforced by the Great King.

Only in 2000 was a second RNA characterized: let-7, which repressed lin-41, lin-14, lin-28, lin-42, and daf-12 expression during developmental stage transitions in C. elegans.

New Orleans rhythm and blues refers to a type of R & B music from the U. S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by extensive use of piano and horn sections, complex syncopated " second line " rhythms, and lyrics that reflect New Orleans life.

There are two major types of saccadic suppression ( or masking ), the first is flash suppression ( the inability to see a flash of light during a saccade-see Dodge 1900 ) and the second is saccadic suppression of image displacement which is characterized by the inability to perceive whether a target has moved or not during a saccade ( Bridgeman, G., Hendry, D., & Stark, L., 1975 ).

The first period is a transitional phase characterized by the retention of archaic forms ; the second phase starts with the publication of Mir Alisher Navoi's first Divan and is the highpoint of Chagatai literature, followed by the third phase, which is characterized by two bifurcating developments.

A second edition of the Oceania Cup took place in 1980 in New Caledonia, at that time not a FIFA member, and was won by Australia in the final match played in Nouméa against Tahiti, with the result of 4-2, and was characterized by a poor result for New Zealand: out in the Group Stage losing against Tahiti ( 3-1 ) and Fiji ( 4-0 ), however two years after they qualified for the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

His second Administration of 2004-2007, however, is increasingly regarded by some observers as one which was characterized by relative stability for the Republic of Nauru in contrast with the political upheavals and crises which occurred before and after this Administration.

Kundiman is also characterized by a minor key at the beginning and shifts to a major key in the second half.

The sound is characterized by a shivering vibrato, clean cutting tones and a series of ten second sustained notes.

As a member of the second generation of Renaissance artists, he helped to further define and popularize the revolution in artistic approach that characterized the new age.