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list and was
Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.
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.
This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.
`` The reason for that report was to settle the matter of the list.
`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.
What was the list??
The list was headed by ( Henry ) Hutton of St. John's who was matriculated from St. John's at Easter, 1625.
( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.
Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.
Swadesh in short was trying to develop a basic list that was universal ; ;
The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.
The primary consideration in the compilation of this list was convenience in discussing the questionnaire with company officers.
The second list was derived from a group of approximately 8,000 names supplied to the research team by the Aerospace Industries Association.
By these steps the final AIA list was reduced from 8,000 to 3,500.
The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.
The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.
Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

list and expanded
This list could be expanded to include most fields of mathematics, including measure theory, ergodic theory, probability, representation theory, and differential geometry.
The list is expanded sometimes, and include Vahman and Ormazd.
The Committee first attempted to set the price for only a limited number of grain products but, by September 1793, it expanded the " maximum " to cover all foodstuffs and a long list of other goods.
After the assassination, the list expanded to include a fitting memorial tribute to the slain president.
The opinion denied cancellation of the upper dose limit, and required that before the actual list of individual items or food classes ( as in the opinions expressed in 1986, 1992 and 1998 ) can be expanded, new individual studies into the toxicology of each of such food and for each of the proposed dose ranges are requested.
" As the Order grew, more guidelines were added, and the original list of 72 clauses was expanded to several hundred in its final form.
The Center's " Teaching Tolerance " project was initiated in 1991, and its " Klanwatch " program has gradually expanded to include other anti-hate monitoring projects and a list of reported hate groups in the United States.
In Part III, section XV, Hume expanded this to a list of eight ways of judging whether two things might be cause and effect.
After October 7, 1896, it began publishing Dow's expanded list of stocks.
The list of deities was both shrunk and expanded ; the thirty eight non-human deities in the From the Ashes boxed set were eliminated and non-human concerns assigned to a handful of human deities, but the list of human deities was expanded from twenty four to fifty four.
This list and his associated reviews have now expanded to include over 300 movies.
Though Bering seems to have been primarily interested in landing in North America, his recognised the importance of secondary objectives: the list of which expanded rapidly under the guidance of planners Nikolai Fedorovich Golovin ( head of the Admiralty ); Ivan Kirilov, a highly-ranked politician with an interest in geography, and Andrey Osterman, a close adviser of the new Empress, Anna Ivanovna.
In the late 90's it was decided that the fire company would add emergency medical services to its already expanded list of rescue operations.
Carlin later expanded the list in live and cable-televised performances to include over 100 words and phrases.
Steely Dan's 2011 Shuffle Diplomacy Tour included an expanded set list, as well as dates in Australia and New Zealand.
Their methods put a slightly expanded 200 word lexicostatistical list to much better use than lexicostatistics ' simple cognate counting, following phylogenies of individual words and seeking best fits across the phylogenies of each of the 200 + words across all the languages under study.
In the 16th century, Metropolitan Macarius expanded the list of the Rus ' ian saints and supervised the compiling process of their life stories.
The GLBA, however, expanded the list of “ bank-elgible ” securities to permit banks to buy, underwrite, and deal in municipal revenue bonds, not only “ full faith and credit ” government bonds.
He repeated it the next year with an expanded list of performing artists, and in 1959 moved to Madison Square Garden.
* 18 – 20 weeks — see the expanded list above
Martha Nussbaum, expanded on the model with a more complete list of central capabilities including life, health, bodily integrity, thought, and more.
By 1929, the sales list had been expanded to 50 models and business was so good that 90 per cent of earnings were being paid out as dividends to shareholders in a highly competitive environment.

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`` I feel confident the stock will qualify for the ' national list ' '', he said, meaning its market price would be quoted regularly in newspapers all over the country.
Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.
The historical BBS list on textfiles. com contains over 105, 000 BBSes that have existed over a span of 20 years in North America alone.
This list, published in July 2010, includes sites that may be nominated for inscription over the next 5 – 10 years.
He applied his intelligence in unconventional ways, winning a contest when he was in eighth grade by finding over 4, 500 words that could be formed from the letters in " Ziegler's Giant Bar "; the judges had only about 2, 500 words on their master list.
The disc was released in the U. S. via City Hall Records on December 6, and within two weeks had climbed to # 12 on Amazon's best-seller list in spite of being priced over 25 % higher than most CDs in order to raise funds for the Doris Day Animal League.
The edict goes on to list in detail over one thousand goods and accompanying retail prices not to be exceeded.
The only relief he could get was in his bath over which he improvised a desk to write his list of suspect counter-revolutionaries who were to be quickly tried and, if convicted, guillotined.
Euripides sometimes ' resolved ' the two syllables of the iamb (˘¯) into three syllables (˘˘˘) and this tendency increased so steadily over time that the number of resolved feet in a play can be understood to indicate the approximate date of composition ( see Extant plays below for one scholar's list of resolutions per hundred trimeters ).
Flame trolling is the posting of a provocative or offensive message, known as " flamebait ", to a public Internet discussion group, such as a forum, newsgroup or mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response ( a " flame ") or argument over a topic the poster often has no real interest in.
A handful of new servers are set up every year by hobbyists – over 50 have been set up and added to Floodgap's list since 1999.
Inscriptions recently discovered at Halicarnassus indicate that her grandson Lygdamis negotiated with a local assembly to settle disputes over seized property, which is consistent with a tyrant under pressure, and his name is not mentioned later in the tribute list of the Athenian Delian League, indicating that there might well have been a successful uprising against him sometime before 454 BC.
" In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. ( Cliff ) Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequentially with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.
Over his lifetime Ibn Battuta traveled over 73, 000 miles ( 117 500 km ) and visited the equivalent of 44 modern countries, here is a list.
Kosiński's novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, and have been translated into over 30 languages, with total sales estimated at 70 million in 1991.
* See Complete list of Pike's publications ( over 250 )
Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.
The race has been held since 1861 ( see list of Melbourne Cup winners ) and was originally held over two miles ( about 3, 218 metres ) but following preparation for Australia's adoption of the metric system in the 1970s, the current race distance of 3, 200 metres was established in 1972.
According to Carla Ricci, “ The place she Magdalene occupied in the list cannot be considered fortuitous ,” because over and over Mary Magdalene ’ s name is placed at the head of specifically named women, indicating her importance.
The list of ' modern ' world champions extended into the 1980s, when the sport entered the catamaran, and then the ' superboat ' era-the 1000 cubic inch total engine displacement restrictions were lifted for boats over in length, and soon three-and four-engine boats sporting F16 fighter canopies replaced the venerable vee hulls that had been the sport's top category for twenty years.
* Includes a list of over a hundred Ogden Nash poems.
# Going over the original array, put each value into the pigeonhole corresponding to its key, such that each pigeonhole eventually contains a list of all values with that key.

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