From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

From the convulsive quivers of the man's shoulders it was plain he had resumed the weeping.

From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.

From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

From the outside it was an ordinary enough house of the gentry.

From there on, each Junior was going to be judged individually.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.

From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.

*' From Hilbert's Problems to the Future ', lecture by Professor Robin Wilson, Gresham College, 27 February 2008 ( available in text, audio and video formats ).

From 1872 until his death he was Bussey Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation in the Harvard Divinity School.

From there he went to the University of Chicago and then to Harvard University as Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in 1954, a post he held until 1982.

From 1887 to 1905 he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge.

From 1965 to 1971, he was Professor of Linguistics at UCL.

From Vienna, Singer and his wife went to Barcelona, Spain, where Singer was appointed Assistant Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

From 1984 to 1989, he was the Ian Woodner Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard.

From 1997 to 2000, he was at Harvard Law School, holding for a year the chair of Berkman Professor of Law, affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

From 1999 to 2004 he was Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as serving as Distinguished Visiting Professor at The John Marshall Law School from 2000 until 2002.

From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was a Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, and a prominent critic of Beowulf — on which he gave a lecture at the British Academy in 1936.

From the fall of 1982 onward, Carol Shields taught in the English Department at the University of Manitoba, first as an Assistant Professor ( 1982 – 1992 ), then as an Associate Professor ( 1992 – 1995 ).

From 1978 to 1985, he was Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A & M University.

From 1927 through to 1946 he was employed as the Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and at that time was responsible for the excavation of the unique Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae and the chambered tomb of Maeshowe, both in Orkney, northern Scotland.

From 1974 to 1992, Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford.

From 1995-6, Ward was Centennial Professor of Housing and Social Policy at the London School of Economics.

From 1968 to 1971, Van Agt was Professor of Criminal Law at the Catholic University of Nijmegen.

From 1995 to 1996, he was a Visiting Professor of International Relations at the University of Kyoto.

From 1960 to 1967, he was a senior lecturer at the Criminological Institute of Utrecht University, where he worked very closely with Professor of Law W. Pompe.

From 1927 – 31 he was also Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution, where he gave an annual lectures series.

From 1943 – 1966 Allan Downie, Professor of Bacteriology, was involved in the eradication of smallpox.

From 1957 to 1967, he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford.

From 1994 to 2001 he was Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King's College London.

From left to right: Wade Welles, Rembrandt Brown, Professor Arturo and Quinn Mallory

From 1995 to 2001, Sir Bryan Carsberg, former Professor of Accounting and Business Finance at the Victoria University of Manchester, served the IASC as Secretary-General.