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had and style
I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;
Gradually Schiele evolved a somber style of his own -- and he had few inhibitions about his subject matter.
he had found his style quite early in his career and he thought it quite wonderful that the world admired it, and he could not imagine why he should alter it.
The focus of novelty in this world now lay in the south-eastern districts of the Greek mainland, and by 800 virtually the entire Aegean, always excepting its northern shores, had accepted the Geometric style of pottery.
The vases which resulted had different shapes, far more complex decoration, and a larger sense of style.
And though in his later years he revised his poems many times, the revisions did not alter the essential nature of the style which he had established before he was thirty ; ;
Where they had affected the bleak social style of embalmers' assistants, Menshikov went abroad gorgeous in white tie and tails.
He had style, a real inner vision of his very own.
He had carried out his initial fieldwork in the Andaman Islands in the old style of historical reconstruction.
But by the 1500s Mannerism had overtaken the Renaissance and it was this style that caught on in Europe.
Alcott had been influenced by educational philosophy of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and even renamed his school " The Cheshire Pestalozzi School ". His style attracted the attention of Samuel Joseph May, who introduced Alcott to his sister Abby May.
He lived in the most frugal style alike at home and in the field, and though his campaigns were undertaken largely to secure booty, he was content to enrich the state and his friends and to return as poor as he had set forth.
What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism stylea style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.
Simplicity and natural expression had hitherto characterized Canova's style ; with these were now united more exalted conceptions of grandeur and of truth.
In 2005, owner Arthur Blank's $ 10 million investment in the facility's upgrade gave the players a more relaxing environment and, introduced its players to a training-camp style unlike few in the NFL had seen before.
His last group of operas, composed for Rome, exhibit a deeper poetic feeling, a broad and dignified style of melody, a strong dramatic sense, especially in accompanied recitatives, a device which he himself had been the first to use as early as 1686 ( Olimpia vendicata ) and a much more modern style of orchestration, the horns appearing for the first time, and being treated with striking effect.
Through Wolgemut's tutelage, Dürer had learned how to make prints in drypoint and design woodcuts in the German style, based on the works of Martin Schongauer and the Housebook Master.
However his style here is a development of that of a number of miniatures of battle-scenes he had done much earlier for Maximilian I in his illuminated manuscript Triumphal Procession in 1512-14.

had and held
Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.
It seemed to Barton that the green eyes mocked him, the thin-lipped smile held insolence, but he had no time to waste now.
No man could have reached his spot nor held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a virtue of ruthlessness all of his life.
An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.
He held the controls where they had been.
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.
One fellow who had liver spots held out his hands to the great healer.
Then, since the auction was being held nearby, he had walked to it.
The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.
He ran on his plump sticks of legs, freezing now and again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held on the paling photographs, all carefully placed and glued and labeled, resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire.
The enormous plates which had held Mr. Jack's four fried eggs and five strips of bacon were still stacked in the sink.
At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.
Any free elections that were to be held in Poland would have to produce a government in which Moscow had complete confidence, and all pressure from the West for free voting by anti-Soviet elements in Poland would be met by restrictions on voting by these elements.
The Court held that Congress had intended the federal judiciary to `` fashion '' an appropriate law of labor-management contracts.
However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.
The enemy had filtered across the river during the night and a full force of 1000 men, armed with Russian machine guns, attacked the position held by Chandler's men.
She held out her hand to show that she had money.
The raising of the $25,000 Improvement Fund two days before the time limit expired, and the spontaneous `` praise demonstration '' held afterward on the campus, were reported as events which had brought happiness to Miss Giles.

had and reins
When Mary returned to Scotland in 1561 to take up the reins of power, the country had an established Protestant church and was run by a council of Protestant nobles supported by Elizabeth.
Mike Brearley, the captain whom Botham had replaced, took up the reins again for the Third Test scheduled for 16 to 21 July, at Headingley.
Perennis took over the reins of government and Commodus found a new chamberlain and favourite in Cleander, a Phrygian freedman who had married one of the emperor's mistresses, Demostratia.
At 29, he took over more of the reins of power, though he continued to rule through a cabal consisting of Marcia, his new chamberlain Eclectus, and the new praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, who about this time also had many Christians freed from working in the mines in Sardinia.
He had taken the reins and driver's seat in Contention City because the usual driver, a well-known and popular man named Eli " Budd " Philpot, was ill. Philpot was riding shotgun.
Claiborne said only one man had a horse in the fight, and that this man was Frank, holding his own horse by the reins, then losing it and its cover, in the middle of the street.
The Puritan Peck was eventually forced to flee to Hingham, Massachusetts, founded by many members of his parish, where he resided for several years, until King Charles I had been executed and Oliver Cromwell had taken the reins of government.
Meanwhile David's representatives had once again obtained the upper hand in Scotland, and the king was able to return to his kingdom, landing at Inverbervie in Kincardineshire on 2 June 1341, when he took the reins of government into his own hands.
In 1804 he was for a short time deprived of the reins of government at the demand of France ; but he was speedily restored to his former position, which he held till, in February 1806, on the entry of the French into Naples, he had to flee with the royal family into Sicily.
They held that the whole cataclysm had been engineered by some great and mysterious secret society of international Jews, who, in the pay and at the orders of Germany, had seized the psychological moment and snatched the reins of government.
There was little resistance to this move ; after years of turmoil and revolution, France was tired and appeared to accept the sacrifice of the liberty and democracy that she had known for so short a time in return for simple stability and a strong hand at the reins of government.
Bill Bavasi, an executive with the Anaheim Angels, believed Mendoza was someone who had potential as a manager, and offered him the reins to the Angels ' Class A advanced California League affiliate, Lake Elsinore Storm, for the season.
In 1959, Howard Deering Johnson, who had founded and managed the company since 1925, turned the reins over to his son, then 26-year-old Howard Brennan Johnson.
and Sara, and an unexpected role-reversal, ( from cringing dupe to back-shooting plotter ) on the part of Bob's character ; Brian threw the reins back to B. A., returning to the role of player, saying that he had only GM'd in order to keep his HMPA-GM credentials fully valid.
To replace child jockeys whose use had been deplored by human rights organizations, a camel race in Doha, Qatar for the first time featured robots at the reins.
After the Catilinian conspiracy, Cato turned all his political skills to oppose the designs of Caesar and his triumvirate allies ( Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus ), who had among them held the reins of power in a finely balanced near-monopoly.
Roupen took up the reins of Cilicia following the assassination of his paternal uncle, Mleh who had been murdered by members of his own inner circle of Armenian nobles on May 15, 1175.
He had been too successful in gathering all reins of government in his own hands after his coup in 1618.
On the other hand, there was the awareness that you're in charge of an organisation that's spending a million dollars of taxpayers ' money every day, and that's a very sobering thought, so you had to keep the reins on as well.
However, neither John Servis nor the Chapmans ever blamed the jockey ( it was held that a careful viewing of the race video revealed that Elliott had a tight hold on the reins ).
He was eventually convinced to assume the presidency in 1945, but in September 1946 he handed over the reins to his assistant, Clarence Campbell, a former NHL referee who had just returned from military service in Europe and had been in the job for less than a month.

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