only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

Frequently we are given assurance that automatically all ideas will be sifted and resifted and in the end only the good ones will survive.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

It was because of this chain-reaction as much as for any other reason -- that is, because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape -- that the identity of depicted objects, or at least parts of them, re-emerged in Braque's and Picasso's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there -- but only as flattened silhouettes -- than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913.

Within only a few years, foamed plastics materials have managed to grow into an integral, and important, phase of the plastics industry -- and the end is still not yet in sight.

By the end of the nineteenth century, in 1893, when the Big Three, Columbia, and Penn were populous centers of learning, Dartmouth graduated only sixty-nine.

When you stand before the barrel-vaulted colonnade you have the impression that the statue at the end is at a considerable distance, yet it is actually only a few feet away.

Finally, just as no different issues are posed for thoughtful analysis by the foreshortening of time that may yet pass before the end of human life on this earth, but only stimulation and alarm to the imagination, the same thing must be said in connection with the question of what we may perhaps already be doing, by human action, to accelerate this end.

In the end, I did the same old picture, the naked girl and the guy in the doorway, only I put a Lord Byron shirt on the guy, gave him a sword instead of a pistol, and painted in furniture from the stills of a costume movie.

Yet she did not hesitate and only turned slightly, her neck tall as she looked in his direction, and continued on her way toward the end of the camp.

She convinced him that he ought to be a member of some of the small tea-drinking parties she held at her rooms and in the end he complied with her wishes, although it was only rarely that he added anything to the random conversations.

Also, an oversight in the small saucer's programming gave rise to a popular strategy known as " lurking " — because the saucer could only shoot directly at the player's position on the screen, the player could " hide " at the opposite end of the screen and shoot across the screen boundary, while remaining relatively safe.

* Dr. Bernard Rieux: Dr. Bernard Rieux is the narrator of the novel, although this is only revealed at the end.

Rather he disguises himself, referring to himself in the third person and only at the end of the novel reveals who he is.

England won only one Test out of 15 from the end of the war until 1925.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

Being very difficult to measure, only about 60 stellar parallaxes had been obtained by the end of the 19th century, mostly by use of the filar micrometer.

Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado ( see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak ).

" Near the end of his life, he fictionalized this experience in his book New Connecticut, originally circulated only among friends before its publication in 1881.

Traces of this hidden agenda of the city's history is found in the 18th century guidebooks to Aachen as well as to the other spas ; the main indication for visiting patients, ironically, was syphilis ; only by the end of the 19th century had rheuma become the most important object of cures at Aachen and Burtscheid.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

Other versions describe some end which humans should strive to attain, only possible if God exists.

* Hijackers will be engaged in negotiations only to bring the incident to an end, to comfort passengers and to prevent loss of lives.

Near the end of the Daytona 500, he had a four-second lead when the final caution flag came out with a handful of laps to go.

By the end of World War II, a handful of Cambodians had joined its ranks, but their influence on the Indochinese communist movement and on developments within Cambodia was negligible.

He and the handful of other survivors end up with 132 prisoners.

Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation ; solutions were " withheld until the last possible second "; and evildoers were usually punished in the end.

There are only a handful, including Frosty's ice cream and pizza parlor, Patrick's, a supper club on the far end of downtown on Girl Lake, and Shorty and Wags Original Chicken Wings.

All but a handful of the locks have conventional mitre gates at the upstream end and a single vertically lifting guillotine gate at the downstream end.

By 1933, after the end of Prohibition, the Coors brewery was one of only a handful of breweries that survived Prohibition intact.

At the end of 1949, having refused to accept the offer of amnesty upon dissolution of the Lao Issara government-in-exile in Thailand, Phoumi was one of the handful of Lao who joined Souphanouvong in northern Vietnam.

Only a handful of survivors were able to hide until the end of the war, from an original population of several thousands.

In 1927, only about a dozen were left – a mere two being females – despite being afforded the best protection according to contemporary science ; that number had declined to a handful, all males, by the end of the year.

Since the end of the 19th century, le Marais has been populated by a significant Jewish population, the Rue des Rosiers being at the heart of its community, with a handful of kosher restaurants.

Eventually all the Cubists ( except for Gleizes, Delaunay and a handful of others ) would return to some form of classicism at the end of World War I.

Since the end of World War II and the division of Korea in 1945, special cities and administrative regions and a handful of new provinces have been added in both the South and North.

At the point in the later fifth century when the earliest Dormition traditions surface in manuscripts, Stephen Shoemaker has detected the sudden appearance of three distinct narrative traditions describing the end of Mary's life: he has characterised them as the " Palm of the Tree of Life " narratives, the " Bethlehem " narratives, and the " Coptic " narratives — aside from a handful of atypical narratives.

By the end of World War II, a handful of Cambodians had joined its ranks, but their influence on the Indochinese communist movement and on developments within Cambodia was negligible.

With Marx and a handful of other brands relegated to the low end of the market, Lionel and American Flyer shared premium status.

Annually a handful of the 50 or so contenders get to the end of the pole and grab the flag ( an accomplishment in itself!

Linguist Marianne Mithun has collected more recent data on the number of speakers of various Native American languages, and could document that there by the end of the 1990s were only a handful of elders left who spoke Lushootseed fluently.

Then, towards the end of the century, the lever escapement ( invented by Thomas Mudge in 1759 ) was put into limited production by a handful of makers including Josiah Emery ( a Swiss based in London ) and Abraham-Louis Breguet.

At the end of that year the Oslo daily Tidens Tegncommented in its Christmas number, ' A handful of foreigners who neither knew our language, nor understood our ways and customs, came to the country.

By the end of the 20th century there were only two breweries left in Berlin, and a handful in the rest of Germany.

By the end of May 2006, the club's dramatic situation started to emerge, with players openly declaring they are unpaid for months, plus a shock decision by UEFA to ban the club from participating in the upcoming UEFA Cup brought the club one step from complete ruin, with the organized fanbase launching an all-out war on Goumenos in the June 2006, going as far as to occupy the club's offices in Toumba stadium for a handful of days.

But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?