Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters -- four last year and three this -- without ever being out of first place.

Until the late 19th century, the axiom of choice was often used implicitly, although it had not yet been formally stated.

Until the late 19th century the only available propellant was black powder.

Until late 2002 it served Mexico, Central America, South America and all of the Caribbean.

Until the 1930s, the Finnish economy was predominantly agrarian, and, as late as in the 1950s, more than half the population and 40 percent of output were still in the primary sector.

Until the late 1970s, it was common for hearses in the USA to be combination coaches which also could serve in the ambulance role ; these were common in rural areas.

Until his retirement in late 2010 he was a professor at Xiamen University, where he taught theoretical physics and computer science, and ran the Artificial Brain lab.

Until the late 20th century Protestantism — especially of the Presbyterian variety — was a central value for most Scots, helping shape their identity and way of thinking.

Until the late 1960s, the standard hi-hats were, with available as a less-common alternative in professional cymbal ranges and smaller sizes down to restricted to children's kits.

Until the late 20th century, the history of science, especially of the physical and biological sciences, was seen as a narrative of true theories replacing false ones.

Until late in the war, he resisted efforts to appoint a general-in-chief, essentially handling those duties himself.

Until the late 18th century, the island of Madagascar was ruled by a fragmented assortment of shifting socio-political alliances.

Until late 2006, they were also used in many of SGI's computer products.

Until the late years of the Soviet Union, political science as a field was subjected to tight control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Until the late eighteenth century, the principal towns were on the east coast — Al Huwayla, Fuwayrit, and Al Bida — and the modern city of Doha developed around the largest of these, Al Bida.

Until the late 19th or early 20th century, those who pursued science were called " natural philosophers " or " men of science ".

Until the late nineteenth century sugar was purchased in loaves, which had to be cut using implements called ' nips ', while in later years, bags of sugar became more common.

Until nitrox was widely accepted in the late 1990s, almost all recreational scuba used simple compressed and filtered air.

Until the late 1970s, stripes were permissible for NFL footballs for night games and other special situations.

Until late 1949, Inklings readings and discussions usually occurred during Thursday evenings in C. S. Lewis's college rooms at Magdalen College.

Until the construction boom of the late 1970s, relatively few modern buildings had been constructed.

Until the late 1970s, the First Committee was the Political and Security Committee ( POLISEC ) and there was also a sufficient number of additional " political " matters that an additional, unnumbered main committee, called the Special Political Committee, also sat.

Until the late 1980s, UMIST's official alumni organisation was called the Manchester Technology Association, a name which was a relic of UMIST's past incarnation as ' The Tech '.

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

Until his return from Mexico in 1930 Whorf had been entirely an autodidact in linguistic theory and field methodology, yet he had already made a name for himself in Middle American linguistics.

Until the Late Middle Ages, the greatest Visigothic legacy, which is no longer in use, was their law code, the Liber iudiciorum, which formed most notably the basis for court procedure in most of Christian Iberia for centuries after their kingdom's demise.

Until the late Middle Ages, " Bahrain " referred to the larger historical region of Bahrain.

Until the early Middle Ages the region around Weesp was an uninhabited peat bog.

Until the 2009-10 school year began, China was home to two of the district's schools, China Elementary ( located in the city center across from China's city park ) and Henderson Middle School ( located on the outskirts of town across Highway 90 ).

Until the late Middle Ages Ostfriesland resisted the attempts of German states to conquer the coasts.

Until the Ashkenazi community first began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad and in Islamic Spain.

Until 6 August 1942, when he was sacked, Dorman-Smith, a full colonel but holding the acting rank of major-general, served as chief of staff to Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief Middle East and later Field-Marshal.

Until the Late Middle Ages the forest was a notorious hiding place for bandits, highwaymen and outlaws.

Until the later Middle Ages the wall defined the boundaries of the City of London.

Until fairly recently known only from the modern species and some fossil remains tentatively allocated to this group, a batch of Middle Jurassic ( Lower Callovian, c. 165 – 164 mya ) specimens found at La Voulte-sur-Rhône demonstrated that clearly vampyromorphid cephalopods were in existence for far longer than has been hitherto believed.

Until the discovery of an almost complete early 8th century edition of the Qieyun in 1947, the Guangyun was the most accurate available account of the Qieyun phonology, and was heavily used in early work on the reconstruction of Middle Chinese.

Until the age of twenty, Swayze lived in the Oak Forest neighborhood of Houston, where he attended St. Rose of Lima Catholic School, Oak Forest Elementary School, Black Middle School, and Waltrip High School.

Until the end of the Middle Ages, kale was one of the most common green vegetables in all of Europe.

Until recently, based on its orthography and phonology the text of this manuscript was believed by most scholars to be Middle Franconian, that is Old High German, with some Limburgic or otherwise Franconian admixtures.

Until it was inactivated, the 464th usually had two or more squadrons deployed overseas at any one time, supporting military operations in Central America, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, and Southeast Asia.

Until that point, most cotton was farmed in large plantations in the Province of Carolina, and tobacco, which could be grown profitably in farms of smaller scale, was the dominant cash crop export of the South and the Middle Atlantic States.

Until the publication of Kevin J. Harty's book The Reel Middle Ages ( 1999 ) there had been no comprehensive survey of medieval films, and John Aberth's book A Knight at the Movies ( 2003 ) can probably be called the first book in English dedicated solely to the subject of history and medieval history on film.

Until November 2000, the Evening Herald was both produced and pressed in Independent House on Middle Abbey St, Dublin 1.

Until the Middle Ages the area was covered with virgin forests ; it can therefore be assumed that only few people, such as hunters, settled there.

Until recently it was believed that this alkaline steppe was formed by the clear cutting of huge forests in the Middle Ages, followed by measures to control the course of the Tisza River, allegedly resulting in the soil's current structure and pH.

Until the early 1860s, " archaeology " had been synonymous, in England, with the study of antiquity and the Middle Ages through artifacts.

Until the Early Middle Ages there were no permanent settlements in the area.

Until about 1960, Gray Minyan ware was often identified as the pottery introduced by a Middle Bronze Age migration.