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Towards the end of World War I, armies on both sides were experimenting with plate armour as protection against shrapnel and ricocheting projectiles.
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Towards the end of October, Castel's new anti-plague serum is tried for the first time, but it cannot save the life of Othon's young son, who suffers greatly, as Paneloux, Rieux, and Tarrou look on in horror.
Towards the end of his career it becomes clear that Poirot's retirement is no longer a convenient fiction.
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Towards the end of 1878 a young workman of Tarragona, Juan Oliva Moncasi, fired at the king in Madrid.
Towards the end of Commodore's time in charge of Amiga development there were suggestions that Commodore intended to move away from the 68000 series to higher performance RISC processors, such as the PA-RISC.
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Towards the end of Steiner's life, a group of theology students ( primarily Lutheran, with some Roman Catholic members ) approached Steiner for help in reviving Christianity, in particular " to bridge the widening gulf between modern science and the world of spirit.
Towards the west end is Eilean Gorm ( the green isle ), and near the north-western shore are the falls of Ledard.
Towards the end of this time period Gustave Eiffel used his Eiffel Tower to assist in the drop testing of flat plates.
Towards the end of chapter four, Alma realizes that the affairs of the Church require his entire concentration.
Towards that end, three young Bosnian-Serbs were recruited and trained in bomb throwing and marksmanship.
Towards the end of 1916, Prime Minister Pasic decided to destroy the leaders of the Black Hand and break up the organization.
Towards the end of the test, she said, " Her pulse is about double what it was when she started.
Towards the end of the 1950s machine-independent programming languages were first proposed.
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Towards the end of 1918, Frances sent a letter to Johanna Parvin, a friend in Cape Town, South Africa, where Frances had lived for most of her life, enclosing the photograph of her with the fairies.
Towards the right end they pass over a curved wooden bridge.
Towards the end of his life Carl Rogers was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with national intergroup conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Coptic Church underwent phases of new development.
Towards the end of the 90s, Laurent Kabila created and appointed a Transitional Parliament, with a seat in the buildings of the former Katanga Parliament, in the southern town of Lubumbashi, in a move to unite the country, and to legitimate his regime.
Towards the end of his first term, the helmet became battered, with the gilt work starting to come off and with clumps of bristles missing from the top.
Towards the end of its life, Dragon Data produced an assembler / disassembler / editor suite called Dream.
Towards and World
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Towards the end of the First World War, on 17 August 1917, General Smuts presented a report to the War Council on the future of air power.
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Nuclear Politics: Towards A Safer World, Ilford: New Dawn Press, 2004.
Towards the final stages of World War II, on July 28, 1945 Aomori was subject to an air raid as part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States of America against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan home islands campaign.
Towards and after the end of World War II the German inhabitants were either evacuated or expelled like most of the German population of East Prussia.
Towards the end of the war, especially in defense of static targets as in the battles of Cold Harbor and Vicksburg, trenches between both sides grew to a World War I scale.
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Towards the end of World War I, " Extension agents " began to play a very important role in northeast Georgia.
Towards the end of World War II, in October 1944, the cities of Tilburg and's-Hertogenbosch ( Den Bosch ) are liberated by the allied forces.
Towards the end of World War II, on 7 and 8 May 1945, the town was bombed by Soviet aircraft when the German commandant of the occupying forces refused to surrender.
Towards the end of his life Huxley himself must have recognised how unpopular these views became after the end of World War II.
Towards the end of the Second World War, E. G. Taverner, the chief engineer for the Drainage Board, devised a plan to relieve flooding in Spalding by creating a bypass channel, and building the Greatford Cut to divert the waters of the West Glen river into the Welland upstream of Market Deeping.
Towards the end of World War II, a lack of affordable housing meant many problems for Chester.
Towards the end of the Thirty Years ' War, the townsfolk were looking after 50 Swedish soldiers, which brought them protection by the Swedish Army, and thereby also a reputation as a " field hospital town " (" Lazarettstadt ") that lasted until the end of the Second World War.
* Forest Farming: Towards a Solution to Problems of World Hunger and Conservation, co-authored with James Sholto Douglas, Rodale Press ( 1976 ).
Towards the end of the decade the Electric was helped by the high price of gasoline during World War I.
Towards the end of the First World War, the French mounted a plough on their Renault FT-17 tank.
Towards the end of his life, he played professional pool, as propranolol is not forbidden by the World Pool-Billiard Association and other pool governing bodies.
Towards the end of World War II, Tomberg received a Ph. D. in Jurisprudence from the University of Cologne, where he had moved in 1944.
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