Sentences with phrase «early last century as»

Built early last century as the Union Bank of Australia Ltd, the premises

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Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) gave up on Twenty - First Century Fox stock earlier this year, it disclosed Monday — just as the owner of Fox News was embroiled in a widening sexual harassment scandal that culminated last month in the ouster of political commentator Bill O'Reilly.

The author of classics such as «Fahrenheit 451» and «The Martian Chronicles» was one of the last living links to an era in early 20th century America in which children got lost in stargazing or pulp magazines like «Weird Tales» instead of video games.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

It is believed to have been written on gold plates, whose whereabouts was revealed to Joseph Smith as a very young man, but written and hidden away centuries earlier by Moroni, last remnant of the people who had migrated from the old world to the new.

Science can not deal effectively with the appreciation of beauty, the enjoyment of personal relationships, judgments of value as to good and bad; its leaders nowadays are modest in their claims, unlike their ancestors in the last century and the early days of this one.

In the last few years, there have been countless titanic tennis matches worth of the Match of the Century designation, but those who woke up early and caught this one were left breathless by the sheer effort these two champions put into it, vaulting it up there with Nadal - Federer at Wimbledon a few years back as the best in tennis» new golden age.

The Funding Agency for Schools, the body responsible for GM schools last time around, made it clear in one of its final reports that there would be a shortage of secondary school places in parts of London; and so there was early in this century as no one body had overall responsibility for planning.

Being Italian - American means overcoming the prejudice and discrimination that most immigrants have faced (as well as those that continue to face these issues) when they came to our shores in the early part of the last century.

The Viking Age did not last long — it's generally defined as beginning in the late eighth century and ending in most areas by the early 12th century — but the explorers still capture our imagination today.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

Early in the last century, oleuropein was isolated from olive leaf extract as this phytochemical was thought to give the olive tree its resistance to disease.

Grass Fed Raw Dairy Cheeses and Butter - Few people are aware that clean, raw milk from grass - fed cows was actually used as a medicine in the early part of the last century.

The early introduction of wheat based foods such as «Farex» (before 6 months usually at 8 weeks) for most of the last century has led to the current explosion in «irritable bowel syndrome» translating to Gluten intolerance etc..

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The early history of the people and rulers of Tamil Nadu is a topic in Tamil literary sources known as Sangam literature.Numismatic, archaeological and literary sources corroborate that the Sangam period lasted for about six centuries, from 300 BC to AD 300.

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As old as the century, Ruth Clifford was one of the last remaining leading ladies of the early, silent era when she died at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills on December 1, 199As old as the century, Ruth Clifford was one of the last remaining leading ladies of the early, silent era when she died at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills on December 1, 199as the century, Ruth Clifford was one of the last remaining leading ladies of the early, silent era when she died at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills on December 1, 1998.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

Inspired by newspaper stories from the last four centuries, Donoghue's masterful short story collection explores the unexpected in people's lives in such varied settings as Victorian England, Civil War — era Texas, and early twentieth - century New York City.

Atwood's experimental Positron / Consilience project in The Heart Goes Last shares many similarities with the kibbutz movement in Israel, which began in the early 20th century as a way for Jews to develop and settle the land.

As I walk up the main street, that's flanked by Jacandardas, I imagine what life may have been like in the early days of the nineteenth century, when the Gold News was at its printing prime and barmaids served drinks at the local pub, until the town's last «golden» Jacaranda bloom fell.

The House now known as York's Corner started its life as an opium den somewhere near Newcastle Harbour early last century.

Hailed as the «Biggest Art Colony in the World» by the Boston Globe in 1916, the relatively small Cape Cod town has hosted some of the biggest names in art since the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has played a pivotal role in the development of nearly every major American art movement in the last 100 years.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gas.

The majority of the WPI archives were assembled over the last century by the Wildenstein family to support the writing of catalogue raisonnés for major French artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as for the catalogue raisonné of the American artist Jasper Johns.

Last month, «Circles: Early + Late» at Yares Art joined the two «Circle» periods together in an exhibition that told us «everything he discovered over a half century of painting,» as Karen Wilkin writes in her catalogue essay.3

With the vogue for Western science (rangaku, literally «Dutch studies») in the eighteenth century came a renewed, though marginal, artistic practice influenced by Western methods and media that lasted into the early nineteenth century; Western influence can also be seen in nineteenth - century prints by such artists as Katsushika Hokusai (c. 1760 — 1849).

Nonetheless, odds on dates as early as this years have more than doubled over the last century.

The sun itself is observed over the last several decades as hotter than it was earlier in the last century.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Such a long - term lack of solar output in the early 18th century, referred to as the Maunder Minimum, is thought to have contributed to the last mini-ice age.

Back in the MWP a solar increase could cause that couple of tenths of a degree of warming that they infer from paleo records, as it could early in the 20th century too when the sun strengthened, but that didn't last till today.

If a previously unknown Callendar had shown up at any time in the last twenty years attempting to publish papers similar to the ones he actually published in the earlier parts of the 20th century, Callendar's qualifications would undoubtedly lead a Real Climate or Skeptical Science reader to dismiss him as suffering from Dunning - Kruger syndrome.

It is also clear that particulate, sulfate and mercury pollution from coal are about as healthy as a three pack a day habit and that there is humongous excess mortality, in the UK and US during the early to mid part of the last century and in China, India and the rest of the developing world now and into the future.

Which is essentially what BEST has done with their early temperatures with an exception: BEST imply that the global temperature of 1750 CAN NOT have been as warm as it has been for the last few centuries.

There is ample circumstantial evidence that it has a significant impact, such as the Little Ice Age that occurred during the last grand minimum, as well as the unusually cold climates that also matched past weak cycles, now, and also in the early 19th and 20th centuries.

Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: «A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles — perhaps as much as 50 per cent.

As I discussed previously, the Arctic has warmed rapidly over the last century but this warming has occurred in two phases with an early century warm period (1910 - 1950) and a late - century warm period (1975 - present).

as regards the substantial warmth noted around the turn of the 16th century, which by the middle of that century had shown a notable downturn to the early part of the 17TH century, then a rise in temperature that commenced around 1610 and lasted until around 1650 - with another notable peak around 1630.

Note the high values in the early part of the century, nearly as high or as high as the value for the last two decades.

At least as early as the beginning of the 20th century, different authors were already examining the evidence for climate changes during the last two millennia, particularly in relation to North America, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe (Brooks, 1922).

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But it's no exaggeration to believe that blockchains could, in the long term, revamp business, government, and even society itself, just as surely as the Internet did last century, and double - entry bookkeeping did centuries earlier.