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The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.
This is a radical change in attitude from the conditions which prevailed several years ago, when a series of bombings was directed against Negroes who were moving into previously all-white neighborhoods of Dallas.
Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.
But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.
Below these particulars was a series of alpha-beta-gammas connected by arrows and crosses which denoted the lineage of the breed.
At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.
between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.
General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.
This was followed by a comprehensive series of observations of the 1.25-cm emission of the moon over three lunar cycles by Piddington and Minnett ( 1949 ).
The required amount of carbon tetrachloride was distilled into a series of reaction cells on a manifold on a vacuum line.
Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.
-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.
In series 1, the relative light intensity was varied by varying the distance of the lamp from the reaction cell over the range from 14.7 to 29.2 cm..
Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.
It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.
A unified set of regulations, applicable to all areas, was issued in 1929, and a complementary series of demographic inquiries in selected areas was instituted at the same time.
-- An extensive series of measurements was made on a high-density polyethylene in a torsion pendulum instrument using forced sinusoidal oscillation, free vibration, and creep measurements over the temperature range of Af to 80-degrees-C.
It was one of a series of recommendations by the Texas Research League.
Perhaps the Pirate who will be the unhappiest over the news that Musial probably will sit out most of the series is Bob Friend, who was beaten by The Man twice last season on dramatic home runs.
It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.
Such a series of articles was certainly never printed in the public press of mid-Victorian England.
The program came out of the NBC Special Projects department, and was slotted in the Du Pont Show Of The Week series.
When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

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In the later war years Gainsborough Studios produced a series of critically derided but immensely popular period melodramas including The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) and The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ).
It was one of the most successful spin-off series in television history, as well as one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series.
In the critically acclaimed and influential 1950s TV series created by Nigel Kneale, Quatermass and the Pit, depictions of supernatural horned entities, with specific reference to prehistoric cave-art and shamanistic horned head-dress are revealed to be a " race-memory " of psychic Martian grasshoppers, manifested at the climax of the film by a fiery horned god.
The late 1980s and 1990s saw the production of a series of critically acclaimed and popular films such as Hidden Agenda, one of the rare films dealing with the political troubles in Northern Ireland, Carla's Song set partially in Nicaragua, and Land and Freedom examining the Republican resistance in the Spanish Civil War.
The series was critically acclaimed but only lasted two seasons.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.
The Lunar series, despite the relatively narrow circulation the two titles on the Mega-CD received, was critically acclaimed and became a cult classic, with both games receiving remakes for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in the late ' 90s ; and a prequel to the series for the Nintendo DS in 2005.
During the 1980s, Altman did a series of films, some well-received ( Secret Honor, Streamers ), and some critically panned ( O. C.
Although critically acclaimed, the series lasted only one season.
The Songbook series ended up becoming the singer's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful work, and probably her most significant offering to American culture.
His performance in the Broadway musical Romance / Romance, starring him and Alison Fraser and subsequent Tony Award nomination helped Bakula win the lead role opposite Dean Stockwell in the critically acclaimed television series Quantum Leap.
This critically acclaimed role was a welcome change from playing the romantic heroine in a series of costume dramas.
In the series finale of the Emmy Award-winning, critically acclaimed series Arrested Development ( which he executive produced and narrated ), Howard appears as himself in an epilogue at the end of the episode and refers to himself as " a Hollywood icon ".
Among Japan's largest and most famous studios, Sunrise is renowned for several critically lauded and popular original anime series, such as Gundam, Armored Trooper Votoms, Vision of Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Witch Hunter Robin, My-HiME, My-Otome, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, as well as its numerous adaptations of acclaimed light novels including Dirty Pair, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon and Accel World, and manga such as City Hunter, InuYasha, Outlaw Star, Yakitate !!
The series was critically acclaimed, and she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
Neither of these incarnations were highly critically or commercially successful, but the live-action series developed a cult following.
Deadwood was a critically acclaimed Western series which aired on HBO from 2004 through 2006.
The Dark Alliance series was released exclusively to consoles and was critically and commercially successful.
After six years without a regular television show in the United Kingdom ( though he had hosted a one-off UK version of The Gong Show for Channel 4, which was critically panned and was not commissioned for a full series ), Howerd returned to TV screens in 1987 in the Channel 4 show Superfrank !, scripted by Miles Tredinnick and Vince Powell.
* The character also co-starred in the three-issue comic book miniseries Harley and Ivy, and was given her swan song in the critically acclaimed The Batman Adventures comic book series, which contains stories about Batman's adventures in Gotham City after a break from the Justice League.
TNT's success with original series includes the critically acclaimed The Closer, ad-supported cable's # 1 series of all time ; Saving Grace, which averages more than 5 million viewers along with Leverage ; and Raising the Bar, which set a new ad-supported cable viewership record when it premiered on Labor Day 2008 ( but has recently been canceled ).

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