I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Sam Rayburn is one of the greatest American public figures in the history of our country and I consider that I have been singly honored in the privilege of knowing Sam Rayburn and sharing with him the rights and obligations of a Member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

The following summary, based on Figures 5 and 6, is an example of one way of interpreting the 42 figures constructed from onset ages and completion ages of individual children with respect to the appropriate mean age for each growth center.

The figures have been executed so skillfully that one senses a great feeling of life and movement.

Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.

My eyes traveled over the bare walls and up to the one partially open window high above the little figures and back to the boys.

Together with Plato and Socrates ( Plato's teacher ), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.

The Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was one of the first Greek buildings utilizing the solution to put the dominating form in the middle, and to complete the descending scale of height with other figures sitting or kneeling.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

He recorded in his journal: " Fair figures one by one are fading from sight.

In 1968, he was cited by William F. Buckley as one of several historical figures whose best qualities would be emulated by the ideal President.

Certainly, Ealdred is one of the leading figures in the work, and it is likely that one of his clerks compiled the version.

The reported output from global aquaculture operations would supply one half of the fish and shellfish that is directly consumed by humans ; however, there are issues about the reliability of the reported figures.

The arrangement mirrors the one designed by Bernini for the Tomb of Urban VIII ( 1628 – 47 ), with a central hieratic sculpture of the pope seated in full regalia and offering a hand of blessing, while at his feet, two allegorical female figures flank his sarcophagus.

He was one of the most prominent figures of the early Renaissance and a knight of the Order of the Dragon.

In 2006 Alberta's per capita GDP was higher than all US states, and one of the highest figures in the world.

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

Adhemar ( also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz ) de Monteil ( died 1 August 1098 ), one of the principal figures of the First Crusade, was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

... was also a great and profound chess thinker second only to Steinitz, and his works – Die Blockade, My System and Chess Praxis – established his reputation as one of the father figures of modern chess.

Detrimental effects on short term memory, which affect the way one figures and calculates ( although this also may be purely subjective ), may also be observed on high enough dosages.

* Amphisbaena is one of the most sought after of the rare series 3 Monster in My Pocket figures (# 76 ).

The Rayleigh Criterion is the basis for analysis of thermoacoustic combustion instability and is evaluated using the Rayleigh Index over one cycle of instability

A Criterion Collection DVD version of the film is currently available containing the complete original version of the film ( 207 minutes ) on one disc, and a second, more expansive Criterion DVD released in 2006 also contains the digitally remastered, complete film on two discs, as well as an additional disc of extra material.

When this play moved to the Criterion in Piccadilly with Michael Codron directing, he was visited backstage by Stanley Baker, one of the four stars in Caine's first film, A Hill In Korea, who told him about the part of a Cockney corporal in his upcoming film Zulu, a film Baker was producing and starring in.

Such a one is Anatomy of a Murder, which opened at the Criterion and the Plaza yesterday.

New Line's Platinum Series DVD was made using one of the CCE silver retention process prints as the Criterion laserdisc was, while the previous New Line VHS, laserdisc and DVD releases used one of the regular theatrical prints.

Writing for The Criterion Collection in 1987, David Ehrenstein called it " one of the greatest action-adventure films ever made " and a " fast-paced, witty and visually stunning " chambara film.

" Appendix B, Criterion XVI, Sentence 2 ) In practice more than one " cause " is allowed and more than one corrective action is not forbidden.

In particular, for a randomly chosen input block, if one flips the i-th bit, then the probability that the j-th output bit will change is approximately a half, for any i and j, which is the Strict Avalanche Criterion.

* Filmmaker Terry Gilliam did a five minute video presentation for the Criterion release, in which he saluted Children of Paradise as one of his favorites and a source of inspiration, because of its dreamlike quality.

Contrary to the common opinion, Benjamin Urrutia insists that this version must be the authentic one, because: 1 ) It is strongly supported by the Criterion of Embarrassment: Jesus changes his mind, and agrees to somebody else's idea.

Charles Wyndham became the manager and lessee in 1875 and under his management The Criterion became one of the leading light comedy houses in London.

It was one of the main contenders in the realtime 3D middleware marketplace at the time, alongside Criterion Software's RenderWare and Argonaut Software's BRender.

* Criterion validity, in psychometrics, a measure of how well one variable or set of variables predicts an outcome

The site qualified under Criterion 1 of the Ramsar Convention because is a large and relatively intact example of a blanket bog and one of the best examples of this habitat in the United Kingdom.

" The Jewish Criterion ," of which Rabbi Levy and Charles H. Joseph are the editors, and one in Judæo-German, the " Volksfreund.

Albery was the author of a large number of other plays and adaptations, including Coquettes ( 1870 ); Pickwick, a four-act drama ( based on Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ( 1871 ); Pink Dominos ( 1877 ), a farce that ran for an extremely successful 555 performances and was one of a series of adaptations from the French which he made for the Criterion Theatre, where his wife, the actress Mary Moore ( who after his death became Lady Charles Wyndham ( 1861 — 1931 )), played the leading parts ; Jingle ( a farcical version of Pickwick ), produced at the Lyceum in 1878 ; and Oriana ( with music by Frederic Clay ).

Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by the actor / manager Charles Wyndham ( the other is the Criterion Theatre ).

The 1978 version is the one that has been in general release since that time, though both versions of the film were issued in The Criterion Collection's John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, marking the first appearance of the 1976 version since its original release.

By the mid 1920s, the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was one of the largest theater owners in the world, with a controlling interest in the Rialto, Rivoli and Criterion theater chains.