But jolly old Uncle Donald would tell her no more than that Bobbie had certainly been considered for the job, but there were factors in a large company which outsiders and even some insiders couldn't understand.

The group was a " jolly, refined, interesting and artistic set of people ... like one large family.

First of all, the six figures of the Buddha you heisted -- four Siamese heads, a black obsidian statuette in the earth-touching position, and a large brass figure of the Dying Buddha on a teakwood base.

that is a figure one with 27 ciphers, quite a large number.

The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European ( and American ) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

An important study of this figure is James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, which traces the dying god theme through a large number of myths.

If the viewing distance is large compared with the separation of the slits ( the far field ), the phase difference can be found using the geometry shown in the figure below right.

These shows have featured large collections of his gridfonts, his ambigrams ( pieces of calligraphy created with two readings, either of which is usually obtained from the other by rotating or reflecting the ambigram, but sometimes simply by " oscillation ", like the Necker Cube or the rabbit / duck figure of Joseph Jastrow ), and his " Whirly Art " ( music-inspired visual patterns realized using shapes based on various alphabets from India ).

Robert Silverberg said that Donald Wollheim was " one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science fiction publishing ", adding, " A plausible case could be made that he was the most significant figure — responsible in large measure for the development of the science fiction paperback, the science fiction anthology, and the whole post-Tolkien boom in fantasy fiction.

alt = In an array of earthen colors, a black silhouetted horned figure to the left foreground presides over and addresses a large circle of a tightly packed group of wide-eyed intense, scary, elderly and unruly women.

They are used in gravity surveys over large areas for establishing the figure of the geoid over these areas.

Davidson further compares to early attestations of the Irish goddesses Badb ( Davidson points to the description of Badb from The Destruction of Da Choca's Hostel where Badb is wearing a dusky mantle, has a large mouth, is dark in color, and has gray hair falling over her shoulders, or, alternatively, " as a red figure on the edge of the ford, washing the chariot of a king doomed to die ") and The Morrígan.

The figure of Columba looms large in any history of Dál Riata and his founding of a monastery on Iona ensured that the kingdom would be of great importance in the spread of Christianity in northern Britain.

Merge algorithms generally run in time proportional to the sum of the lengths of the lists ; merge algorithms that operate on large numbers of lists at once will multiply the sum of the lengths of the lists by the time to figure out which of the pointers points to the lowest item, which can be accomplished with a heap-based priority queue in O ( log n ) time, for O ( m log n ) time, where n is the number of lists being merged and m is the sum of the lengths of the lists.

On noting the large number of surviving ancient manuscripts, Bruce Metzger sums up the view on the issue by saying " The more often you have copies that agree with each other, especially if they emerge from different geographical areas, the more you can cross-check them to figure out what the original document was like.

) The film shows what Patterson and Gimlin claimed was a large, hairy bipedal apelike figure with short black hair covering most of its body, including the figure's prominent breasts.

As regards prisoners of war, both sides captured large numbers and had many die in captivity – one recent British figure says 3. 6 of 6 million Soviet POWs died in German camps, while 300, 000 of 3 million German POWs died in Soviet hands.

A snowman is created by making a man shaped figure out of snow – often using a large, shaped snowball for the body and a smaller snowball for the head which is often decorated with simple household items – traditionally including a carrot for a nose, and coal for eyes, nose and mouth ; occasionally including old clothes such as a top hat or scarf.

Submarines were first widely used during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) and now figure in many large navies.

It is credited with originating several elements common in the slasher genre, including the use of power tools as murder weapons and the characterization of the killer as a large, hulking, faceless figure.

A farmer and her daughter observed the strange scene of a figure in a bright orange suit with a large white helmet landing near them by parachute.

Noise figure in an ideal DFA is 3 dB, while practical amplifiers can have noise figure as large as 6 – 8 dB.

The figure of Columba looms large in any history of Christianity in Dál Riata.

" Her mouth is too large and her eyes too prominent and colourless for beauty ", wrote a Venetian envoy as Catherine approached forty, " but a very distinguished-looking woman, with a shapely figure, a beautiful skin and exquisitely shaped hands ".

Today Mazara is widely considered to be one of the most important fishing centres of Italy ; tussles about fishing rights, especially with the North-African countries, figure large in the town's recent history, boat sequestrations being a common event.

Similarly, a large two dimensional dove figure would be, and in some places still are, cut out of wood, painted and decorated with flowers, to be lowered over the people, particularly during the singing of the sequence hymn, or Veni Creator Spiritus.

: Jeha ( as he is known in the Middle East where this story was told ) was being pestered by a large group of children who were following him and making fun of him.

The event, which featured a large fun fair, ice rink, and other attractions, culminated in a laser and firework display on New Year's Eve.

" Keillor often pokes fun at central Minnesota's large Scandinavian-American and German-American communities, and many of his fictional characters have names that reflect this.

The celebration offers live music and activities, family fun and a large flea market, car show, and motorcycle show.

Sand castles are typically made by children, simply for the fun of it, but there are also sand sculpture contests for adults that involve large, complex constructions.

Many of the comedians were also close friends, and mutually making fun of each other was a large part of the show.

Included among the most often stated responses were the fun of catching fish, the experience, to catch a lot of fish or a very large fish, for challenge, adventure and more.

Viennese refer to the Zentralfriedhof ' half the size of Zurich and twice as much fun ',( German: „ Halb so groß wie Zürich-aber doppelt so lustig ist der Wiener Zentralfriedhof !“) as the cemetery is only half as large as the city of Zurich.

Today, the small size of fully automatic camcorders with large view screens and long-life rechargeable batteries has reduced the housing size and made underwater videography an easy, fun activity for the diver.

Generally found on decaying tree stumps, they grow in very large quantities and are easy to spot and identify, arguably reducing the fun and challenge in mushroom hunting.

At large gatherings and especially during festival times, it is the game of choice since many people of different skills can play together and have fun.

They not only organise 6 large events each year but support teachers by using sailing as a way of making education interesting and fun.

Poking fun at her illiteracy, it makes a number of obscene suggestions hinting at her promiscuity —" I wos a Wuman as had grate nattural parts, and a large Capassiti, and kapible of being kunserned in depe Kuntrivansis.

It houses a large swimming pool, leisure and play pools, indoor bowls, six badminton courts, a gymnasium, a fun room for toddlers, a cafeteria and a licensed bar.

This might be as a farmer, agriculturalist, or hobbyist, and can be practiced on a large or small scale, for food, fun, or profit.

It is a very special day with lots of fun and a large meeting of Mascaras: masked men and women of all ages, who wear costumes according to tradition, typically covered from head to toe, and parade through their town and nearby towns all day, making jokes and having fun, followed by a large multiple, and celebrated procession through all the town and nearby town's neighborhoods, and ending at the Hatillo town center.

In the early 1970s, Buono released several comedy record albums, which poked fun at his large stature, and a book of comic poetry called It Could Be Verse.

When a new Salvation Army Corps was opened in Potton in Bedfordshire on 1 June 1890, large contingents of the Skeleton Army made fun of the local Salvationists.

In the episode Smug Alert, they portray San Francisco liberals as haughty and condescending towards people less progressive than themselves and poking fun at the large number of wine and cheese stores in San Francisco.

A showboat was added to the lake, and a new fun house was built, which featured such attractions as a multi-lane giant slide ; mazes, mirrors, obstacle courses and mystery rooms ; a large turntable which flung its riders off at great velocity ; revolving barrels ; and the ubiquitous jets of air-activated by a human operator-which startled those who were unfortunate enough to stand over them.

This was fun to do in small amounts, but tedious in large ones.