In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

The quotation first came from Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to his friend Joseph Bigler, as a submission for a book compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in 1980 titled Murphy's Law Book Two, More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong.

Things improved somewhat during the later years of the decade, but an even more significant collapse came with the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s.

Things came to a head in late May 2004 during a performance for national station Triple M at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney, when bassist Patrick Matthews walked off stage after Craig shouted at the crowd, calling them " sheep " in frustration after repeatedly asking the crowd to stop talking during the first song.

In 1946, a series of cartoons for the Navy featuring Private Snafu's brother " Seaman Tarfu " ( for " Things Are Really Fucked Up ") was planned, but the war came to a close and the project never materialized, save for a single cartoon entitled Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy.

Things came to a head when Salamanca decided to replace Peñaranda and a number of his increasingly mutinous commandants.

It was a major team in Brazil decades ago, but passed three years striving to leave Brazilian League Série C. Things came worse at the beginning of 2007.

Things came to a head after one infamous concert when Phil had trouble with an out-of-tune guitar ; he stormed off before the end of the set and when Tim challenged him backstage about what had happened, blows were exchanged.

Things finally came to a head at a gig in Niagara Falls in autumn 1956, when, as a result of a fight, Dorsey quit the group a week before they were to appear in Alan Freed ’ s film Rock, Rock, Rock.

In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, many notable bands like 13 Nightmares, Leafy Green Things, The New Brass Guns, For Against, The Millions, Sideshow, 2 Below and Mercy Rule came from Lincoln.

Things came to a head in 1998 when the Labour government was negotiating the lease of sealine to be developed in a yacht marina in Birgu.

Things picked up in the late 1920s, but then came the Great Depression.

Things came to a head following the mass execution of political prisoners in late summer and early autumn 1988.

Things came to a head when, at that year's CMA Awards, Rich — the reigning Entertainer of the Year, and himself a crossover artist — presented the award to his successor, " my good friend, Mr. John Denver.

Things came to a head in 1896, when first Edward D. Adams was appointed president, then less than two months later, Edwin Winter.

In fact, it seems more likely that the city is simply an outpost of the Elder Things which came to Earth not to conquer but to live in isolation.

Sinatra sang his first of their compositions, " Love Looks So Well On You ", on Sinatra Sings of Love and Things, which came out in 1962.

Things came to a head with the arrival at Roach of new-broom general manager Henry Ginsburg in 1931, a boorish man universally despised on the lot and called by Stan Laurel " The Expeditor ".

Things came to a head during a sparring exercise in which Komand ' r attempted to kill her sister.

She came to fame in the mid-1990s, after starring in the title role of the popular television series, The Secret World of Alex Mack, and has also appeared in theatrical films, including The Baby-Sitters Club and 10 Things I Hate About You.

Things finally came to a head in 2002, when Teletext gained a new senior editorial team, who lost patience with Biffo's pushing of the envelope of what was acceptable on a mainstream text service.

Things only got worse until 1984, when the bitter end came.

Things start to go well for the family, despite Miles and Teri's divorce, he still comes by for Sunday dinner, Lem and Bird are expecting their first child, Faith is finally becoming part of the family again and Uncle Pete who never came out of his room, starts to join the family.

Things were looking well for Williams until Mansell came in for his stop on lap 29 and things went horribly wrong.

Campaigning under the slogans Il faut que ça change ( Things have to change ) and Maîtres chez nous ( Masters of our own house ), a phrase coined by Le Devoir editor Andre Laurendeau, the Liberal Party, with Jean Lesage at its head, was elected within a year of Duplessis's death.

Donna Leon, whose Beastly Things is her 20th mystery novel in as many years featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, faces her detective ’ s accumulating years head on as he investigates yet another mysterious and watery death in his beloved Venice.

Things come to a head when Jimmy pulls Kit for a relief pitcher on Dottie's advice.

He dies in " The Things They Carried " from a gunshot wound to the back of the head.

Things come to a head when Seishirō loses an eye protecting Subaru, and Subaru realizes that he is in love with Seishirō.

After King of Kensington ended in 1980, head writer Louis Del Grande went on to create and star in Seeing Things, and Waxman was cast in the American series Cagney & Lacey.

Things come to a head when Liz and her boyfriend-fellow intern Dr Tim Whitney ( Paul Bishop )-must both be protected against the schemes at the hospital, and as Happy fights with Amanda over the case, his health takes a serious turn for the worse.

Things come to a head when Tommy inadvertently crosses path with Fred, and a revenge situation begins.

Things come to a head when Julia announces that she is leaving Leo.

Things came to a head for her on 20 August 1968, when the Red Army brutally suppressed the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia.

Things came to a head in the summer of 1998 when a row with Mintoff over a coastal concession to a private company resulted in Government being defeated over the motion transferring the land.

Things came to a head in 1910, when he offered a resolution at a university faculty meeting in support of Harry Thurston Peck, a Columbia professor who had been summarily dismissed by Butler because of a public scandal involving a breach-of-promise suit.

Things turned around in 2005 with new head coach, Ben Bennett.

`` You are bound to get involved with people when you have children '', Fran had told me at our first meeting, `` so it is good to know that those with whom you get involved are not just dreary little housewives and dull husbands, but People Who Do Things ''.

Things have been badly managed when five million men are out of work in the richest country in the world.

Things in the colony began to change when the prince and future king Dom João VI, along with the whole Portuguese court, escaped to Brazil in 1808 due to Portugal being invaded by Napoleonic troops.

Things got heated in 2011 during a game when Roman Harper illegally hit Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith after Smith scored a touchdown.

Her sister Millicent recalled Elizabeth ’ s weekly lectures, “ Talks on Things in General ”, when her younger siblings would gather her while she discussed politics and current affairs from Garibaldi to Macauley ’ s History of England.

Things were going so well for the company, that in 1973, the company's German executives accidentally opened a store in Konstanz when they had meant to open one in Koblenz.

Things started to change in 1989 when Coronation Street began airing three times a week.

In 1960, when Richards, on his way to class at Sidcup Art College, and Jagger, on his way to class at London School of Economics, met at Dartford train station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records Jagger carried revealed a mutual interest, leading to the re-establishment of their friendship and the formation of a band with Dick Taylor ( later of Pretty Things ).

Things looked promising at the start of the season, as the team picked up two points on its Grand Prix debut in Australia when Olivier Panis finished fifth.

Things weren't helped when both drivers collided with each other in the Austrian Grand Prix.

Antonioni's final film, made when he was in his 90s, was a segment of the anthology film Eros ( 2004 ), entitled " Il filo pericoloso delle cose " (" The Dangerous Thread of Things ").

Things become tricky when the Missing and False numbers refer to group 10, which includes the Missing and False lists.

* The 1936 film Things to Come depicts 2036 as a time when humans live in underground cities and fire the first spacecraft to the Moon from a giant space gun.

* In the second season episode " Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things " of the CW series Supernatural, Sam and Dean Winchester are forced to intervene when the teaching assistant to a professor of Ancient Greek uses a necromantic ritual to bring the professor's daughter back to life after she dies in a car accident.

Things became considerably more tense in 1962 when the new CDC 3600 started to near production quality, and appeared to be exactly what management wanted, when they wanted it.

Things change when Bud learns that Gekko, in fact, plans to dissolve the company and sell off Bluestar's assets in order to access cash in the company's overfunded pension plan, leaving Carl and the entire Bluestar staff unemployed.

Things become complicated when she begins impersonating a French dancer, not realizing that the dancer is the invention of a gossip columnist ( Jack Benny ).

Things to look for when choosing a shade tree include deciduousness, coverage, longevity, and the ability of the roots to damage foundations.

Things went badly after the Eighty Years ' War started in 1568, but luck turned to his advantage when Protestant rebels attacking from the North Sea captured Brielle, a coastal town in present-day South Holland in 1572.

The game is played most notably during the final scene of the series finale " All Good Things ", when Captain Jean-Luc Picard for the first time joins the others as the dealer and, after revealing that he was quite the card player in his youth and being told he had been always welcome, gives the final words of that episode and of the series overall: " Five-card stud, nothing wild ... and the sky's the Limit " as the camera pans overhead the table.

Things begin to fall apart when she loses her library job and is evicted from her apartment.

Things boil over when the bodies are found and the deputy sheriff, Clinton Pell ( Brad Dourif ), realizes that his wife gave their locations to Anderson, and he assaults her.

Things went from bad to worse when the Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane of 1933, known as the August storm, caused extensive damage in town where damages were estimated at $ 75, 000.