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Then and telegraph

Then – in the only paid employment he ever had – he took a job as a telegraph operator with the Great Northern Telegraph Company working first in Denmark and then in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was soon made a chief operator.

Then with the dawn of new technologies such as electricity, the telegraph, and new forms of powered transportation, writers including Jules Verne and H. G. Wells created a body of work that became popular across broad cross-sections of society.

Then Page reported the story to President Woodrow Wilson, including details to be verified from telegraph company files in the U. S.

Then and line

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

Then lay a three-inch-wide strip of cloth along the keel line from the transom to the point of the stem.

Then in 2 we show that any line involution with the properties that ( A ) It has no complex of invariant lines, and ( B ) Its singular lines form a complex consisting exclusively of the lines which meet a twisted curve, is necessarily of the type discussed in 1.

Then the fact that the lower channel line was pierced had further forecasting significance.

Then, taking in on the first cable as the boat is motored into the wind and letting slack while drifting back, a second anchor is set approximately a half-scope away from the first on a line perpendicular to the wind.

Then, since every real is the limit of some Cauchy sequence of rationals, the completeness of the norm extends the linearity to the whole real line.

Then each point p of the line can be specified by its distance from O, taken with a + or − sign depending on which half-line contains p.

Then he began to reorganise the armed forces in line with his foreign policy plans.

Line QP can be extended beyond P to some point T, and line GP can be extended beyond P to some point R. Then and are vertical, so they are equal ( congruent ).

Let the line of symmetry intersect the parabola at point Q, and denote the focus as point F and its distance from point Q as f. Let the perpendicular to the line of symmetry, through the focus, intersect the parabola at a point T. Then ( 1 ) the distance from F to T is 2f, and ( 2 ) a tangent to the parabola at point T intersects the line of symmetry at a 45 ° angle.

Then on the first play of the Colts ' second drive, Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley intercepted a pass from Johnny Unitas and returned it 22 yards to Baltimore's 46-yard line before being tackled by Unitas himself.

Then on third down, Morton committed a 15-yard intentional grounding penalty, pushing the Cowboys back to the 22-yard line and forcing them to settle for Clark's 30 yard field goal, giving them a 6-0 lead.

Then on second down and 35 to go, Morton threw a pass that went through the hands of running back Dan Reeves and into the arms of linebacker Mike Curtis, who returned the ball 13 yards to the Cowboys 28-yard line.

Then Miami got the ball on their own 37-yard line with 2: 55 left in the first quarter.

Then quarterback Bob Griese completed an 18-yard pass to wide receiver Paul Warfield to reach the Washington 34-yard line.

Then on third down, Scott intercepted Kilmer's pass to Taylor in the end zone and returned it 55 yards to the Redskins 48-yard line.

Then Mercury Morris ran right for four yards, Larry Csonka crashed through the middle for two, and quarterback Bob Griese completed a 13-yard pass to tight end Jim Mandich to advance the ball to the Vikings 43-yard line.

Then, Franco Harris moved the ball to the 6-yard line with a 24-yard run.

Then Steelers running back Mike Collier returned the free kick 25 yards to the Cowboys 45-yard line.

Then on the first play of the Cowboys ' next drive, Steelers defensive back Mike Wagner intercepted a pass from Staubach and returned it 19 yards to the Dallas 7-yard line.

Then, Oakland got the ball back in excellent field position after returner Neal Colzie returned Minnesota's punt 25 yards to the Vikings 35-yard line.

Then aided by Tarkenton's completions to White for gains of 14 and 18 yards, respectively, the Vikings advanced to the Oakland 37-yard line.

Then and Peking

Then in 1860 the Chinese and British governments signed the Convention of Peking, a diplomatic agreement that subjects of the Chinese and British Empires would have reciprocal rights under their respective countries ' laws.

Then came the railhead at Tongku ( Tanggu ), the tracks leading to Tientsin and Peking.

Then a graduate student at the Peking University, he was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to four years in 1991 for " conspiring to overthrow the Government of China ".

Then and went

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

Then, with a shrug of pretended indifference, she took a compact from her purse and went through the motions of fixing her make-up.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

Then he wrinkled his huge brow and went slowly out of the room.

Then they disappeared and Scotty got up and went into his own room and got into bed.

Then they went down to Black Bottom.

Then he slipped and went down on his hands and knees in the melting snow.

Then she went back to the wicker chair and resolutely adjusted her eyes to the glare on the water.

Then China promptly went Communist, and Mr. Truman had to fight the interminable Korean war for the democratization of Korea before we learned how far our writ did `` reach in Asia ''.

`` Then she went to Deauville where she met a member of a powerful Greek syndicate of gamblers ''.

Then comes the time when the last wire is removed and Susie walks out a healthier and more attractive girl than when she first went to the orthodontist.

Then the lights went out.

Then he turned the telephone over to Rourke, and went into the bedroom to change his slippers for dry socks and shoes.

Then he went back for Roberts.

Then, when the case went to the jury, the judge excused one of the jurors, saying the juror had told him he had been accosted by masked men at his motel the night before the trial opened.

Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

Then, after a while, she went to her mirror.

Then she said, `` Allons '', and we got up and went to my hotel without another word.

Then, declaring in disgust that he wished to " fight among brave men and not among cowards ", Eugene went into the attack with the Prussian and Danish infantry, as did the Dessauer, waving a regimental colour to inspire his troops.

Then he went back to the club, only to lament under his bitter tears, " See how they've ruined my dress!

Then I went to Admiral, but that was taken.

Then he went to hear a Pythagorean philosopher, who demanded that he first learn music, astronomy and geometry, which he did not wish to do.

Then, in 1942, Weissmuller went to RKO and starred in six more Tarzan movies with markedly reduced production values.

Then I went to a church, and I didn't find him there.

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