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He could read on the nearby scoreboard that Palmer, by then playing the 15th hole, was leading him by a stroke.
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Dimly, he heard laughter, hoots of derision, but he could not read the racket properly.
She read everything else she could get her hands on, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''.
Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.
The titles he could read easily through the criss-crossed wires: works on theology, astral physics, history, biology, political science.
she could dust the plants, then break off suddenly and pick up an old novel and read from the middle on ; ;
they read every book that they could borrow in the village.
This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.
He would like to put several sentences on top of each other so that you could read them all at once, and get all at once, the various shadings and complexities ''.
Moreover, nursing various Stubblefields -- her aunt, then her mother, then her father -- through their lengthy illnesses ( everybody could tell you the Stubblefields were always sick ), Theresa had had a chance to read quite a lot.
In privacy he could walk around, leave the light on, read.
Mercer read it, and so had a few of the others, but they could not tell which man had done it.
They could still read the opening: `` Once, I was like you, stepping out of my window at the end of day, and letting the winds blow me gently toward the place I lived in.
In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.
Each sheet could be written or read in one second.
Johnson recommended that black voting begin with black troops, those who could read and write, and those who had property of at least $ 200 or $ 250.
And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.
Additionally, these lower-level functions could be programmed to read the data immediately following the "&" or " USR " command, allowing a BASIC program to pass parameters to the functions.
With a special configuration tool, the CT-80 could reconfigure its floppy drivers to read and write the floppies of about 80 other CP / M systems.
Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).
I pointed out that a kid could enjoy Sesame Street without learning how to read, but he couldn't enjoy comic strips unless he could read ; and that a smaller investment in getting kids to read by supplying them with educational matter in such reading form might make better sense.
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When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.
They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I could consult this personage on any weekday morning, though not before ten o'clock.
Past it I could see part part of a desk, a flag in a corner, a rug on the floor.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;
No cow thief could count on a jury of his sympathetic peers to free him any longer.
Dan could hear Clayton Burnside and Eben Jackson summing up their final reckoning for rental on the oxen.
I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
They could come on him now without difficulty.
Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.
Let us look in on one of these nerve centers -- SAC at Omaha -- and see what must still happen before a wing of B-52 bombers could drop their Aj.
Capable of enduring friendships, they were also stout controversialists, who could write with a drop of vitriol on their pens.
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Johnston now planned to defeat the Union forces piecemeal before the various Union units in Kentucky and Tennessee under Grant with 40, 000 men at nearby Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, and the now Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell on his way from Nashville with 35, 000 men, could unite against him.
Hubble's father had in 1909 moved his family from Chicago to Shelbyville, Kentucky, so that the family could live in a small town, ultimately settling in nearby Louisville.
In November, at a joint hearing of Congressional Subcommittee, it was told that Grenada could be used as a staging area for subversion of the nearby countries, for intersection of shipping lanes, and for the transit of troops and supplies from Cuba to Africa, and from Eastern Europe and Libya to Central America.
While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.
They could not yet produce pure samples of all the rare-earth elements, even in the form of their salts, and in some cases they were unable to distinguish between mixtures of two very similar ( adjacent ) rare-earth elements from the nearby pure metals in the Periodic Table.
To this end, he called for a rock-treatment process that could color the buildings to match the nearby mountains.
The event motivated Jackie to pursue his athletic career at the nearby University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ), where he could remain closer to Frank's family.
# These objects could have had their orbits and perihelion distances " lifted " by the passage of a nearby star when the Sun was still embedded in its birth star cluster.
Desmond soon hired Brubeck, but cut his pay in half and then replaced him altogether after taking him along to Graeagle at The Feather River Inn for gigs ; this was done so Desmond could gamble in nearby Reno.
With his special brand of humor, he says he only took the job because he was nearby and could tumble out of bed to work.
As most people could not afford to build vert ramps, or did not have access to nearby ramps, street skating increased in popularity.
He also built textile looms, copying from one nearby, so that Ford could set up mills on the creek.
The position could be fraught with personal dangers in the violent political life of the medieval commune: in 1252 Milanese heretics assassinated the Church's Inquisitor, later known as Saint Peter Martyr, at a ford in the nearby contado ; the killers bribed their way to freedom, and in the ensuing riot the podestà was very nearly lynched.
The stench from the decomposing bodies could be smelled up to away, such as at the nearby village of Treblinka, Masovian Voivodeship.
Sir Richard Lundie, a Scots knight who joined the English after the capitulation at Irvine, offered to outflank the enemy by leading a cavalry force over a nearby ford, where sixty horsemen could cross at the same time.
For instance, the prepositional phrase at the end of the street could be replaced by an adjective such as nearby: the nearby house or even the house nearby.
The British abandoned it and nearby Fort Crown Point in November 1777, destroying both as best they could prior to their withdrawal.
Water was not allowed into the inner aedes nor could stay longer than the indispensable time on the nearby premises.
The establishment of a large postal system spanning India resulted in unprecedented postal access where a message on a postcard could be sent from one part of the country to another part ( often to a physical address without a nearby post office ) without additional postage affixed.
For example, if a logger is planning to clear-cut a forest in a way that has a negative impact on a nearby resort, the resort-owner and the logger could, in theory, get together to agree to a deal.
Project Daedalus was a study conducted between 1973 and 1978 by the British Interplanetary Society ( BIS ) to design a plausible interstellar unmanned spacecraft that could reach a nearby star within one human scientist's working lifetime or about 50 years.
In an attempt to prevent this prophecy's fulfillment, when Jocasta indeed bore a son, Laius had his ankles pinned together so that he could not crawl ; Jocasta then gave the boy to a servant to abandon (" expose ") on the nearby mountain.
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