Giorgio Vasari, who argued that historical progress in art reached its peak in Michelangelo, emphasized Alberti's scholarly achievements, not his artistic talents: " He spent his time finding out about the world and studying the proportions of antiquities ; but above all, following his natural genius, he concentrated on writing rather than on applied work.

Kazuo Chiba has implied that the style of training in Hombu concentrated less on physical rigor because of its demographic: " A large portion of the membership at Iwama Dojo consisted of local farmers, hard workers who spent all day in the fields.

On September 11, Austrian army of 11, 000, allied with Poland, concentrated near Kraków and set off to Płock, where it spent winter.

Thus, where Jewish wealth existed, it was almost invariably concentrated in the form of money, with extremely limited avenues through which it could legally be spent.

GE was a world leader in this technology ; most other firms concentrated on the mechanically simpler supercharger driven by the engine itself, while GE had spent considerable effort developing the exhaust driven turbo system that offered higher performance.

During the five years spent working in Italy, he concentrated on religious and historical subjects for his art.

** Preliminary Confessions, devoted to the author's childhood and youth, and concentrated upon the emotional and psychological factors that underlay the later opium experiences — especially the period in his late teens that de Quincey spent as a homeless runaway in Oxford Street in London in 1802 and 1803.

Although " Jindys " concentrated on Australian culture, not all were of Australian origin-for example, William Hart-Smith who is sometimes connected to them, was born in England, and spent most of his life in New Zealand, with only a decade in Australia itself ( 1936 – 1946 ).

He spent much of the nineteen-eighties and nineties in Latin American countries such as Colombia and Guatemala, where his research is concentrated.

Jennie Livingston, who never went to film school and who spent seven years making Paris Is Burning, concentrated on interviews with key figures in the ball world, many of whom contribute monologues that shed light on the ball culture as well as on their own personalities.

Prior to forming the partnership both had spent time building London tube railways and Hay had worked on the Blackwall tunnel, so it was no surprise that they concentrated on heavy civil engineering projects such as bridges, tunnels, railways and docks.

He listed what he had spent for `` My own diet in London eighteen weeks, in which I was sick a month ; ;

The first six to eight weeks are spent in the den with the mother.

For the next five years, Anne spent no more than five or six weeks a year with her family, during holidays at Christmas and in June.

Between 1840 and 1844, Anne spent around five weeks each summer at the resort, and loved the place.

While the crew spent six weeks shooting on location in Scotland, the major battle scenes were shot in the Republic of Ireland using members of the Irish Army Reserve as extras.

Between 1958 and 1959, the English language edition spent 26 weeks at the top of The New York Times bestseller list.

The use of visible and expressive brushwork by all the artists was considered an insult to the craft of traditional artists, who often spent weeks on their work.

With a legendary Hollywood " girl next door " image, and capable of delivering comedy and romance as well as heavy drama, she appeared in 39 films, released 29 albums, spent 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts and eventually became one of America's most beloved entertainers.

Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of " I Will Always Love You " from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, " Islands in the Stream " ( written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb ), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.

spent 3 weeks at the top of the Australian charts.

He had spent only a few weeks with them before leaving for Athens.

His follow-up album, No Fences, was released in 1990 and spent 23 weeks as number-one on the Billboard country music chart.

According to Hawks, he spent fifteen weeks in basic training at the University of California in Berkeley where he was trained to be a squadron commander.

Soon after his suicide, Brood's version of " My Way " spent three weeks as number one in the Dutch singles charts ; the market value of his art work also increased greatly.

He spent several weeks visiting sites in the area then headed inland to Cairo, the capital of the Mamluk Sultanate and even at that time an important large city.

It spent 5 months on The New York Times Bestseller list, with the hardcover reaching # 3 and the paperback spent several weeks at # 1.

Ribbentrop spent the last weeks of September 1938 looking forward very much to the German-Czechoslovak war he expected to break out on 1 October 1938.

Lee spent three weeks with David Angel, the arranger of the strings and horns, playing and singing the orchestral parts to him.

It spent 10 weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart, according to Joel Whitburn's " Top Pop Albums ," peaking at No. 154 in 1968, by far the worst showing among Love's first three albums ( according to " Top Pop Albums ," Love's next album, " Four Sail ," fared better on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at No. 102 in 1969 ).

" Alone Again Or " initially peaked at No. 123 in 1968 in an edited version, while the longer, original album version spent three weeks on the singles chart in 1970 before peaking at No. 99, according to Whitburn's " Top Pop Singles: 1955-2010.

Martina Hingis ( born 30 September 1980 ) is a Swiss former professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1.

The book made the top ten on The New York Times Best Seller list and spent ten weeks there.

The matter instantly occupied the news media and Lewinsky spent the next weeks hiding from public attention in her mother's residence within the Watergate complex.

They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.

Since Major's election as leader, Kinnock spent the end of 1990 and most of 1991 putting pressure on Major to hold the election that year, but Major had held out and insisted that there would be no general election in 1991.

The Romans began to riot, and Frederick spent his coronation day putting down the revolt, resulting in the deaths of over 1, 000 Romans, and many more thousands injured.

Valdemar spent the remainder of his life putting together a code of laws for Jutland, Zealand and Skåne.

A great part of his reign, like his father's, was spent putting down revolts by his power-hungry vassals.

That summer he spent in Provincetown, Massachusetts with Mabel Dodge and her son, putting together Insurgent Mexico and interviewing President Wilson on the subject.

According to Black, he and producer James Stroud spent more time putting this album together than either of those preceding and were " a lot more aggressive in the way we cut and mixed the album ".

They left for a three-day Greyhound trek and spent four months on the city streets, putting in frequent calls to find him.

He spent a lot of time with his grandparents at the larger house, a double-fronted Georgian house known as " Quay House " with grounds that included a big garden containing a small nine-hole putting green, and a small cricket pitch on land on the other side of a river.

The King drew some attention to himself, however, by constantly putting himself in personal danger ; during sieges, for example, he visited the trenches at the front line, and spent many nights in bivouac shelters.

Henke spent the entire 1982 season back at Tulsa despite putting up similarly impressive numbers ( 14 saves with a 2. 67 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 87 2 / 3 innings ).

Returning to Charleston in 1815, Poinsett spent the first few months putting his personal affairs in order.

After Magazine split in 1981 Devoto spent two years putting together a solo album with former Magazine keyboard player Dave Formula.

Born in Nagoya, Japan in 1898, and one of twelve children, Shinichi spent his childhood working at his father's violin factory ( current Suzuki Violin Co., Ltd ), putting up violin soundposts.

One of the Yard's top-rankers, Commander E. A. Cole, recently spent three months in America consulting with FBI officials in putting finishing touches to the plan.

Thompson recognized that technical education was the means by which scientific knowledge could be put into action and spent the rest of his life putting his vision into practical realization.

The municipal government has been putting more stiff environmental policies into practice over years and has spent tremendous funds to curb the pollution and to plane more trees along its roads.

The statues were a gift of Dr. Andrew Anderson ( 1839 – 1924 ), the builder of the Markland House, who spent the last decade of his life putting works of art in public places in the Ancient City.

The other half of the school year is spent for the prep and the showing of the annual Science Magic Show at Sisler's Science fair, and for aiding in running the Division's science fair while putting on a Science show for all the students.

The band explained that Drama y Luz was not ready for fans and spent time during the delays putting the finishing touches on the record.

In the same season, he also spent 143 minutes in the penalty box " Mike Milbury said, ' I want you to think about what you're doing by putting yourself into the penalty box.

Once in Guy's power, Buddy reveals for the first time a human, vulnerable side, telling a tragic story about his wife's death and revealing that he too was once a bullied assistant to powerful, tyrannical men and spent a decade putting up with such abuse to get to where he is today.

As food is eaten quickly, and portions are small, little time is spent in putting eating utensils down.

File: Leaning_Tower, _Yosemite_Valley, _Yosemite, _California. jpg | Harding spent eighteen days on the intimidating Leaning Tower in 1961, putting up a route up the wildly overhanging West Face of this Yosemite Valley formation with Glen Denny and Al Macdonald.