Postmaster General Burleson set about to protect the American people against radical propaganda that might be spread through the mails.

The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.

We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

A former Du Pont official became a General Motors vice president and set about maximizing Du Pont's share of the General Motors market.

Auto set production came to about 6.3 million compared to 5.6 million in 1959.

We have set up a central R & D department, as well as engineering-management departments -- about 80 people working on problems related to those of our plants.

You have unwittingly set in motion forces so malign, so vindictive, that it would be downright inhumane of me not to warn you about them.

It appears possible to set a lower limit of about Af for the activation energy of the abstraction of a chlorine atom from a carbon tetrachloride molecule by a chlorine atom to form Af radical.

The authors set about answering this fundamental question through a detailed investigation of the patient's ability, tactually, ( 1 ) to perceive figure and ( 2 ) to locate objects in space, with his eyes closed ( or turned away from the object concerned ).

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

He had enlisted in the Army straight out of high school and had immediately set about learning his new trade.

When he attended the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade school here about six months ago, Jim became convinced that an individual can do something constructive in the ideological battle and set out to do it.

Shortly before his nomination he had set forth his basic view about the problem of negotiations with the Soviet leader in these words:

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

Groups of electrons were thought to occupy a set of electron shells about the nucleus.

They are a set of axioms strong enough to prove many important facts about number theory and they allowed Gödel to establish his famous second incompleteness theorem.

This left a deep impression on Carrel, and he set about developing new techniques for suturing blood vessels.

When speaking about the reals, sometimes it means " all reals but a set of Lebesgue measure zero " ( formally, almost everywhere ).

He quickly set about reforming the school.

But Leotychidas was ultimately set aside as illegitimate, contemporary rumors representing him as the son of Alcibiades, and Agesilaus became king around 401 BC, at the age of about forty.

Though she had taken away Alexander's sword, they feared to set about the deed until she threatened to wake him.

He immediately set about introducing the Homestead Act in the Senate, just as he had ushered it to passage in the House years before.

The jewel is about long, made of filigreed gold, enclosing a highly polished piece of quartz crystal beneath which is set a cloisonné enamel plaque, with an enamelled image of a man holding floriate sceptres, perhaps personifying Sight or the Wisdom of God.

The diadem is a fillet with rows of pearls along its edges and a rectangular stone set about with pearls over the young Emperor's forehead.

In 1790 with his apprenticeship nearing its end, Thompson made the unusual request of a set of surveying tools in place of the typical parting gift of fine clothes offered by the company to those completing their indenture.

He then set sail for Great Britain by way of Cape Horn, returning in September 1795, thus completing a circumnavigation.

As filming progressed, Cagney's sciatica worsened, but he finished the nine-week shoot, and reportedly stayed on the set after completing his scenes to help other actors with their dialogue.

Each character class featured special abilities unique to that class, as well as a shared set of attributes which could be developed by performing tasks and completing quests.

Montana's 75. 9 completion percentage was the second highest in Super Bowl history, and he also set a record by completing 13 consecutive passes during the game.

The Rams scored first midway through the first quarter, with Kurt Warner completing 6 of 7 passes for 43 yards on 48 yard, 10 play drive to set up a 50-yard field goal by kicker Jeff Wilkins.

The two set about completing their joint work, which transformed itself from a book on dialectical logic to a rewriting of the history of rationality and the Enlightenment.

A 30-month transitional period for completing the unification of the two political and economic systems was set.

He also made it a point to be aboard during the initial sea trial of almost every nuclear submarine completing its new-construction period, and by his presence both set his stamp of personal integrity that the ship was ready for the rigors of the open seas, and ensured adequate testing to either prove as much or to establish issues requiring resolution.

When the two new vessels were complete, most of the survivors set sail, completing their journey to Jamestown.

The resulting " Panorama Convention " of October 31, 1991, stripped Ratsiraka of nearly all of his powers, created interim institutions, and set an 18-month timetable for completing a transition to a new form of constitutional government.

Schnabel did much to popularize Beethoven's piano music, making the first complete recording of the sonatas, completing the set for the British label HMV in 1935.

In completing the track from Benson, NC to Smithfield, NC the company set up a worksite on high ground between the two towns.

By his own account he had explored the gardens, scaling the kitchen garden wall in the process, and set the staff to work, then ate breakfast with the housekeeper and met his future wife, Sarah Bown, the housekeeper's niece, as he later put it, completing his first morning's work before nine o ' clock.

Also during 1993, Pryce was set to star alongside River Phoenix and Judy Davis in the film Dark Blood, but production had to be shut down when, 11 days shy of completing production, Phoenix died of a drug overdose.

It was probably in February 1823 that Beethoven returned to the task of completing the set.

This second set added two more headings to their predecessors ' ten, completing the Law of the Twelve Tables ( Lex Duodecim Tabularum ), which formed the centerpiece of the Roman constitutions for the next several centuries.

About 1863, after completing his translations of Hippocrates and his Pliny, he set to work in earnest on his great French dictionary.

The challenge of a complete theory of population genetics is to provide a set of laws that predictably map a population of genotypes ( G < sub > 1 </ sub >) to a phenotype space ( P < sub > 1 </ sub >), where selection takes place, and another set of laws that map the resulting population ( P < sub > 2 </ sub >) back to genotype space ( G < sub > 2 </ sub >) where Mendelian genetics can predict the next generation of genotypes, thus completing the cycle.

The z axis is vertical, pointing generally towards the Earth's center, completing an orthogonal set.

# Achievement: completing a task successfully, typically by effort, courage, or skill ( pursue a standard of excellence ) ( explore alternatives before acting )-Based on the need to attain high-quality results on challenging projects, the belief that outcomes are linked to one's effort rather than chance and the tendency to personally set challenging yet realistic goals.

UB40 announced that after completing a coast to coast 2010 American tour they would be playing a nationwide UK tour of theatres in October / November 2010 performing their seminal album ' Signing Off ', in full, along with a second set of popular UB40 songs.

In February 2009, the film set a record by completing 700 weeks of continuous play in a Mumbai theatre.

She also set up a charity, MoMo Helps, to help drug users who are successfully completing their rehabilitation and provide support for the parents or carers of disabled children.