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He was four years into studying for a Ph. D, researching the psychological theory underpinning educational software design, publishing several papers in this area of study, while working with the Educational Technology Research Group within the psychology department at Hull University, when Paul Heaton made him an offer of joining The Beautiful South playing guitar.
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The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.
The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
Sometimes he did this three or four times a day, for this Woman was almost always with him.
The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.
Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.
'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.
and `` Marmee '' March, like Sophie Szold, was the competent manager of her brood of girls, of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds' five.
Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.
It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.
He had to acquire everything he was going to get in four years.
It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.
One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;
Mrs. Andrus was talking to the maid, arranging for her to come in every day, instead of the four days she now worked.
Fifteen stated that it was according to location, four by residence of the owner, and nineteen did not answer.
This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.
A major consideration in the choice of the Warwick site, four miles from Cranston, was the fact that it permits retention of our present trained and highly skilled work force.
But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.
Every winter a kegful of this sauce was made and placed at the end of a row of four other kegs in the cellar, so that when its turn came, it was properly mellowed.
It was five minutes after four.
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
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Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.
Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
He was about 50 years old.
Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.
Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.
Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.
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When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
Clyde Miller was crying softly to himself, shedding his striped suit and fumbling into the nondescript butternut pants, the worn brown shirt.
For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.
It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.
By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.
Every plane that could fly was sent into the air.
How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.
Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.
Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.
Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.
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