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He spent this time researching philosophy and developing music until about a year later in October 1774 when, as the result of demands by powerful friends, he was promised a canonry in Brittany.
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This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.
The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.
Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
Mrs. Coolidge spent more time in her bedroom among her doll collection.
He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
These biographical analogies are obvious, and far too much time has been spent speculating on their possible implications.
The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.
He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.
This time, added to that which I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes a total of twenty-two ( 22 ) years of education.
Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.
He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.
The applicant pays the rest of the cost, but his own time spent on the work and charges for the use of equipment which he owns may be applied toward his share of the cost.
However, as much time as possible should be spent within the shelter to hold radiation exposure to a minimum.
The cleaner air means less time spent pushing a vacuum, fewer trips to the dry cleaners, lighter loads for the washing machine.
but they all hastened to add that certainly less time was needed on it than presently spent.
( 1 ) A great deal of time was spent on processes for solving marital differences.
More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.
Too much damage is done by `` experts '' who have spent even less time, if any at all, in the U.S.S.R..
She eyed the chickens with, if she had known it, something of Glendora's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs.
-- A Houston teacher, now serving in the Legislature, proposed Thursday a law reducing the time spent learning `` educational methods ''.
His spare time is spent in soaring gliders.
They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.
Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.
spent and researching
He was unhappy with the focus at both schools on Beaux-Arts architecture, and spent his free time researching the emerging architects, especially Le Corbusier.
Years before holding his first office, Jefferson had spent much time researching procedures and rules for governing bodies.
Schardin also spent time researching a " trench mine " that used a directional fragmentation effect.
His friend Ford Prefect, a contributor to the Guide, assures him that the next edition will contain the article on Earth that Ford has spent the last 15 years researching — somewhat cut due to space restrictions, but still an improvement.
Having read English history for years as a hobby, and not satisfied with the books written about King Richard III, Fields spent four years researching and two years writing the non-fiction book Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes ( ISBN 0-06-039269-X ), which was published in 1998.
Author Marc Scott Zicree, who spent years researching for his book, The Twilight Zone Companion, noted: " Sometimes the situations were clichéd, the characters two-dimensional, but always there was at least some search for an emotional truth, some attempt to make a statement on the human condition.
Although he spent much of his life researching old letters, Hart-Davis destroyed the originals of the letters after his edited versions of them had been printed.
While researching for a documentary into Korshunova's death, Pomerantsev learned that the model spent three months attending training session at Rose of the World.
She spent much time researching and learning about the factors that contributed to childhood and adult illiteracy – she believed homelessness was too connected to illiteracy – and the efforts underway to combat both.
In the intervening centuries they remained forgotten until they were accidentally rediscovered in 1578, after which Antonio Bosio spent decades exploring and researching them for his volume, Roma Sotterranea ( 1632 ).
She spent six years in the United Kingdom, at the Social Medicine Unit at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the United States researching these areas before returning to Perth to establish research programs at the University and within the health department.
John Frost of Avro Canada also spent considerable time researching the effect, leading to a series of " inside out " hovercraft-like aircraft where the air exited in a ring around the outside of the aircraft and was directed by being " attached " to a flap-like ring.
There was also the promise of golf balls which could always be found and nuclear-powered airplanes, which the US federal government even spent US $ 1. 5 billion researching.
He spent a number of days in the town living in the houses of the working-class miners while researching for the book.
Beginning in 1992, Marrs spent three years researching and completing a non-fiction book on a top-secret government program called the Stargate Project involving the psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing, only to have the program canceled as it was going to press in the summer of 1995.
Ramsay and his new wife spent 1754 – 1757 together in Italy, going to Rome, Florence, Naples and Tivoli, researching, painting and drawing old masters, antiquities and archaeological sites, and ( to earn an income ) painting Grand Tourists ' portraits.
The two spent time researching science fiction books, television shows, and films.
Maestro Martínez has spent years carefully and thoroughly researching these treatises in an effort to accurately reconstruct these varied styles.
Professor John Tyler Bonner has spent a lifetime researching the slime molds and created a number of fascinating videos in the 1940s to show the life cycle ; he has mostly studied D. discoideum.
On the album cover, it is stated that they spent a long time researching the material, and to their knowledge it was the first Black Mass published in any language.
He has also spent time researching musical traditions and performing in Bali, Indonesia.
She spent five years researching what little scientific knowledge was recorded about the ecology and history of the Everglades and South Florida.
He spent a year researching the article, which was published as a 25, 000-word piece in Rolling Stone magazine.
Khan spent several months researching by reading books, watching videos and talking to people affected with the disorder in an effort to portray the character of Rizwan Khan.
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