Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

This agreement is considered very good for such short time intervals.

Did he trouble to memorize the very small part which I had `` tailor-made '' to his specifications, a role eventually cut down to three short speeches??

unfortunately, no one has kept complete records of one individual, whereas many have been made for a very short period of time.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

Naturally, enterprises of the size of General Electric are in a position to structure their prices in such a way that the relatively small competitors can be forced to the wall in a very short time.

Adult frogs do not have tails and caecilians have only very short ones.

The deadline for beginning an appeal can often be very short: traditionally, it is measured in days, not months.

Being relatively heavy and positively charged, alpha particles tend to have a very short mean free path, and quickly lose kinetic energy within a short distance of their source.

If it does, ocean levels would rise by a few metres in a very short period of time.

Fleming also discovered very early that bacteria developed antibiotic resistance whenever too little penicillin was used or when it was used for too short a period.

This number is easy to remember and, when called, will read back your number after a very short message.

The shell is accelerated to a high velocity in a very short time by the rapid generation of gas from the burning propellant.

The colony was still very short of skilled farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen, and the convicts continued to work as little as possible, even though they were working mainly to grow their own food.

In the agony of the Umayyad dynasty in the Al-Andalus ( Moorish Iberia ), two princes of the house were proclaimed Caliph of Cordoba for a very short time, Abd-ar-Rahman IV Mortada ( 1017 ), and Abd-ar-Rahman V Mostadir ( 1023 – 1024 ).

In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.

The display will usually demonstrate the aircraft's very short ( and often very loud ) takeoff rolls, fast speeds, slow approach speeds, as well as their ability to quickly make tight turns, to climb quickly, and their ability to be precisely controlled at a large range of speeds.

Since the ammeter shunt has a very low resistance, mistakenly wiring the ammeter in parallel with a voltage source will cause a short circuit, at best blowing a fuse, possibly damaging the instrument and wiring, and exposing an observer to injury.

Extreme cases like Mira undergo large swings over hundreds of days ; Arcturus is not very red and is a borderline case between variability and stability with its short period and tiny range.

Assuming that the ion is accelerated during a very short interval, the ion can be assumed to be travelling at constant velocity.

Usually the stem remains very short and the leaves are low to the ground, forming a rosette.

Under extreme climatic conditions, a biennial plant may complete its life cycle in a very short period of time ( e. g. three or four months instead of two years ).

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

Finally, based on research in cognitive psychology and some investigations in the philosophy of language, he argues that very few of the categories used by humans are actually of the black-and-white type amenable to analysis in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions.

Main stage act Jet performed in front of a large backdrop of a black-and-white Australian flag cut-out of their name, with lead vocalist Nic Cester adding, " I can't tell anyone else what to do but we as a band are very proud to be Australian and we don't want to feel we are not allowed to feel proud ".

Three other children, Paul, Basil and Rosalie, appeared in the original black-and-white serial and in the credit sequence of the colour episodes, but very rarely in subsequent episodes.

The show's predecessor was a series called Ultra Q, a black-and-white 28-episode series very much like the original Outer Limits.

This system, however, suffered from the twin problems of costing at least three times as much as a conventional black-and-white set, as well as having very dim images, the result of the fairly low illumination given off by tubes of the era.

Unlike the hybrid systems, dot-sequential televisions used a signal very similar to existing black-and-white broadcasts, with the intensity of every dot on the screen being sent in succession.

During the nine years that the show was broadcast in black-and-white, the black-face makeup was actually red as black did not film very well.

While the show started off being broadcast in ( genuine ) black-and-white, the show was one of the very first to be shown in colour on BBC Two in 1967.

1999 ( USA ) " The Star Wars Holiday Special ," by Ross Plesset ( Presents black-and-white photos and very detailed article on the SWHS, with interviews.

The film was shot in black-and-white and roughly edited due to a very modest budget of $ 27, 575.

The drake Smew, with its ' cracked ice ' and ' panda ' appearance, is unmistakable, and looks very black-and-white in flight.

However, Anthony Holden, who was one of the judges against Prisoner of Azkaban for the Whitbread Award, was very negative about the book, calling it tedious and clunkily written, the characters black-and-white and the storylines predictable.

The digital master, created during the Digital Intermediate process, can be recorded to very stable yellow-cyan-magenta ( YCM ) separations on black-and-white film with an expected 100-year or longer life.

Cotton, in a soft and conciliatory tone, seriously modified the black-and-white version of the conference that the other elders insisted upon, putting the Governor and other magistrates in a very awkward position.

During the UK Parliamentary expenses scandal Mullin, one of the lowest claimers, provided some comic relief when it was revealed that the television at his second home is a very old black-and-white model with a £ 45 TV licence.

This image is seen briefly in black-and-white at the very beginning of the opening title sequence, during the " Funny Face " musical number which takes place in a darkroom, and when Dick ( Astaire ) presents it to Maggie ( Thompson ).

Although the original black-and-white edition published in the 1930s and the colour version of 1943 are very similar in many ways, there are some scenes from the original that were not included in the one most available today, especially in the first half of the adventure:

Howard short stories, the aforementioned " The Frost-Giant's Daughter ", " Tower of the Elephant ", " Rogues in the House ", and " Red Nails ", the last of which was issued as a very limited, pirated, A3-size black-and-white version on glossy paper in England in early 1974.

The show features a very distinct art style, reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's animation from Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which all the characters are made out of cutouts of black-and-white photographs.

The game is a successor to Gran Trak 10 and the Sprint series, which were black-and-white games with very primitive graphics from the 1970s.

It is very similar to the black-and-white Manx Shearwater of the Atlantic, and stray birds out of their usual range are very difficult to identify with certainty.

Today, the black-and-white ruffed lemur has a much larger range than the red ruffed lemur, although it is very patchy, extending from slightly northwest of Maroantsetra, on Antongil Bay, in the north down the coast to the Mananara River near Vangaindrano in the south.