Thus, his response to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was to write a similar time travel novel ( Lest Darkness Fall ) in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age.

Thus, A Connecticut Yankee ( 1927 ) was based on Mark Twain's novel, and The Boys From Syracuse ( 1938 ) on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

Thus, Springfield was the first town on the Connecticut River protected from sea attack.

Thus in 1635, Pynchon carefully scouted out the Connecticut River Valley for its best location to both farm and conduct business.

" Thus, even when reception was effected by a constitution, the common law was still subject to alteration by a legislature's statute.

Thus, the actus reus and mens rea of homicide in a modern criminal statute can be considered as follows:

Thus the history of English military law up to 1879 may be divided into three periods, each having a distinct constitutional aspect: ( I ) prior to 1689, the army, being regarded as so many personal retainers of the sovereign rather than servants of the state, was mainly governed by the will of the sovereign ; ( 2 ) between 1689 and 1803, the army, being recognized as a permanent force, was governed within the realm by statute and without it by the prerogative of the crown and ( 3 ) from 1803 to 1879, it was governed either directly by statute or by the sovereign under an authority derived from and defined and limited by statute.

Thus, the court found that the statute is not sufficiently ambiguous to raise constitutional concerns.

" Thus, only women are covered in the statute ; it is not, for example, high treason to rape a Queen-Regnant's husband.

Thus, the ability to arrest material witnesses under the statute extends to the ability to arrest those with information material to a grand jury investigation ( assuming the showing of impracticability is also made ).

Thus, this ' as applied ' analysis does not consider the statute in the aggregate to be applied to all public services, such as government-owned hockey rinks, but simply the facts in question.

The statute, however, describes the offense differently: " No person, either orally or in writing, on oath lawfully administered or in a statement made under penalty of election falsification, shall knowingly state a falsehood as to a material matter relating to an election in a proceeding before a court, tribunal, or election official, or in a matter in relation to which an oath or statement under penalty of election falsification is authorized by law ..." Thus the requirement is, arguably, more a statement of current intent than a loyalty oath's promise of future support.

Thus, this shareholder limited liability emanates mainly from statute.

Thus, where the state legislature had not passed a statute that controlled the case, a federal district court was free to make up its own common law.

Thus, in a statute forbidding the concealment on one's person of " pistols, revolvers, derringers, or other dangerous weapons ," the term " dangerous weapons " may be construed to comprehend only dangerous weapons of the kind enumerated, i. e., firearms, or perhaps more narrowly still, handguns.

Thus, under that decision, the California state courts were already directed to hold invalid the first clause of the statute, as it construed peaceable opposition to organized government.

The majority conceeded that “ If we were to derive a rule exclusively to address the uncontested facts of this case, Atwater might well prevail .” The majority also acknowledged specific directness in its actual opinion, “ suggesting that courts look with ‘ disfavor ’ on such legislative enactments ‘ as interfering with the constitutional liberties of the subject ’.” Furthermore, the majority decision concluded that “ warrantless misdemeanor arrests not need constitutional attention ,” and that “ It is of course easier to devise a minor-offense limitation by statute than to derive one through the Constitution ” Thus, the court rejected adopting a new Constitutional law rule by focusing on administrability concerns.

Thus, when the Flook Court says that Flook's process is not the kind of process that the patent law permits to be patented, even though it is a process in the ordinary dictionary sense of the word, Judge Rich finds the inquiry impermissible because "§ 101 was never intended to be a ' standard of patentability '; the standards, or conditions as the statute calls them, are in § 102 and § 103.

Thus the government simultaneously undertook the vast burden of social security which had traditionally been privately discharged, and created a national scarcity which has engendered calamitous problems of social security.

Thus it was that Barco, apprehended for mere larceny, now began to suspect that one or another of his murders had been uncovered.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

Thus he prohibited the application of torture to children under fourteen years, though this rule had exceptions.

" Thus Ambrose refused to be drawn into a false conflict over which particular local church had the " right " liturgical form where there was no substantial problem.

Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

Thus, Abulafia in the 13th century assumed that the language spoken in Paradise had been different from Hebrew, and rejected the claim then current also among Christian authors, that a child left unexposed to linguistic stimulus would automatically begin to speak in Hebrew.

Thus Dürer contributed to the expansion in German prose which Martin Luther had begun with his translation of the Bible.

Thus the price of wheat had fallen.

Thus, Walsh modified the vertical passing scheme he had learned during his time with the Raiders, designing a horizontal passing system that relied on quick, short throws-often spreading the ball across the entire width of the field.

Thus a fighter realizing he was in trouble had an opportunity to recover.

Thus, southern Germany once more became part of the Frankish kingdom, as had northern Germany during the first years of the reign.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Thus, by 1939, both Church ( 1934 ) and Turing ( 1939 ), neither having knowledge of the other's efforts, had individually proposed that their " formal systems " should be definitions of " effective calculability "; neither framed their statements as theses.

Thus, many understood Eutyches to be advocating Docetism, a sort of reversal of Arianism — where Arius had denied the consubstantial divinity of Jesus, Eutyches seemed to be denying his human nature.

Thus the Rump never had more than two hundred members ( less than half the number of the Commons in the original Long Parliament ).

Thus, every non-Han dynasty saw itself as the legitimate holder of the " Mandate of Heaven ", which legitimized the dynastic cycle regardless of social or ethnic background as it was moral integrity and benevolent leadership that had been validating the " Mandate of Heaven.

Thus, Cyril followed his uncle in a position that had become powerful and influential, rivalling that of the prefect in a time of turmoil and frequently violent conflict between the cosmopolitan city's Pagan, Jewish, and Christian inhabitants.

Thus, this supposedly distinctive feature was easy to use, but had nothing to do with actual phylogenic relationship.

Thus the dragoon regiments of the Imperial German Army wore the pickelhaube ( spiked helmet ) of the same design as those of the infantry and the British dragoons wore scarlet tunics, In other respects however dragoons had adopted the same tactics, roles and equipment as other branches of the cavalry and the distinction had become simply one of traditional titles.

Thus Bolesław the Brave might have received Kraków as his part of his father's legacy before the Dagome iudex had been written.

Thus, churches actually had money-changing tables at which each coin would be examined separately and a token of actual worth given to the layperson so that he or she could be seen by the other parishioners as putting money in the basket during that part of the service.