 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1887 - 648 páginas
...country, it is true, the fox-hunter was already in his saddle at break of day, and at the universities it was not until the last quarter of the century that the old dinner hour of twelve was abandoned ; * but the House of Commons during the reign of George III.,... | |
 | Charles William Macfarlane - 1898 - 340 páginas
...this general character of the rent function was recognized as early as 1807, but in English literature it was not until the last quarter of the century that the movement in this direction became at all general. The reason for this delayed recognition by English... | |
 | Massachusetts Medical Society - 1901 - 1166 páginas
...the absence of facilities and the need for self support stunted their aspirations in such directions. It was not until the last quarter of the century that the use of labaratories became so manifest that they began to spring up and to receive adequate support... | |
 | Edwin Emery Slosson - 1919 - 370 páginas
...sodium nitrate, or "saltpeter." These beds were discovered by a German, Taddeo Haenke, in 1809, but it was not until the last quarter of the century that the nitrates came into common use as a fertilizer. Since then more than 53,000,000 tons have been taken... | |
 | Frank Paddock - 1925 - 430 páginas
...that "it was a question of scarcity." This was undoubtedly the view current among the rank and file. It was not until the last quarter of the century that the trade unions as a whole were again converted to political action and had a political program. However,... | |
 | Istvan Hont, Michael Ignatieff - 1983 - 388 páginas
...The purchasing power of 5.304 pecks of 1765-74 is therefore in the middle of previous experience, and it was not until the last quarter of the century that the best seventeenth-century experience was improved upon.42 On the other hand, such day labourers formed... | |
 | Pedro Telhado Pereira, Maria Eugénia Mata - 1996 - 210 páginas
...flight of survivors from the affected area, rather than to the actual number of direct fatalities. It was not until the last quarter of the century that the number of inhabitants caught up with the figure which had existed on the eve of the tragedy. Strong... | |
 | James L. Morrison - 1998 - 278 páginas
...bore fruit, but this initial precursor of change aborted in the face of conservative opposition, and it was not until the last quarter of the century that the traditionalists were forced to give ground. There were, of course, exceptions—both Rensselaer and... | |
 | Russell Schiller - 2001 - 194 páginas
...Although the telephone had existed for a century it took a long time before its use was widespread. It was not until the last quarter of the century that the telephone became a near universal household convenience. As a result the widespread use of the telephone... | |
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Muscat in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, but it was not until the last quarter of the century that the Al Bu Said made any effective display of authority there. 