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was and reinvented
After Arbuthnot was promoted to deputy editor, it was taken over by Wyndham-Lewis some time in 1919 who reinvented it as an outlet for his wit and humour.
came in with some great ideas and she had reinvented some of the lore and it was pretty cool but in the end there just wasn ’ t enough on the page .”
Following Harrison, the marine timekeeper was reinvented yet again by John Arnold who while basing his design on Harrison's most important principles, at the same time simplified it enough for him to produce equally accurate but far less costly marine chronometers in quantity from around 1783.
As a result, the system was essentially reinvented by Peter Abelard.
The reverse Polish scheme was proposed in 1954 by Burks, Warren, and Wright and was independently reinvented by F. L. Bauer and E. W. Dijkstra in the early 1960s to reduce computer memory access and utilize the stack to evaluate expressions.
It was the need to synchronize the scramblers that suggested to James H. Ellis the idea for non-secret encryption which ultimately led to the invention of both the RSA encryption algorithm and Diffie-Hellman key exchange well before either was reinvented publicly by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, or by Diffie and Hellman.
It was largely reinvented and applied much more closely to everyday life in the 1960s, particularly by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann in The Social Construction of Reality ( 1966 ) and is still central for methods dealing with qualitative understanding of human society ( compare socially constructed reality ).
However, under writer Alan Moore, Swamp Thing was reinvented as an elemental entity created upon the death of Alec Holland, having somehow absorbed Holland's memory and personality into itself.
Huckaback was reinvented as a raid on Herm alone on the night of 27 / 28 February 1943.
It was invented ( and independently reinvented ) in the 20th century.
Boulton's patent, No. 392, awarded in 1868 some 40 years before ailerons were ' reinvented ', became forgotten until the aileron was in general use.
Third, and of greatest significance for music history, notation was reinvented after a lapse of about five hundred years, though it would be several more centuries before a system of pitch and rhythm notation evolved having the precision and flexibility that modern musicians take for granted.
The fire pump was reinvented in Europe during the 16th century, reportedly used in Augsburg in 1518 and Nuremberg in 1657.
This was then later picked up by the Japanese and reinvented by Americans.
He came up ( 1939 ) with the mathematical technique now known as linear programming, some years before it was reinvented and much advanced by George Dantzig.
This feature was reinvented and patented again in 1872 because the patent office had lost Morey ’ s patent in the 1836 patent office fire.
The film was a big hit, and Powell had successfully reinvented himself as a dramatic actor.
Through TIFH Muir and Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy — amongst other influences, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne and many television programmes.
He reinvented the suit so that it was no longer about going to the office.
The new edition was rewritten and reinvented by relationship psychologist Susan Quilliam and approved by Nicholas Comfort, the original author's son.
This was a genre which he practically reinvented, drawing upon Roman examples of the Augustan Age.
In 1981, Rabin reinvented a weak variant of the technique of oblivious transfer invented by Wiesner under the name of multiplexing, allowing a sender to transmit a message to a receiver where the receiver has some probability between 0 and 1 of learning the message, with the sender being unaware whether the receiver was able to do so.

was and short-sighted
According to Aristotle, the Spartan military culture was actually short-sighted and ineffective.
However, the omission of the geopolitical reality in ignoring the free hand Japan had been granted by the Treaty ( of Shimonoseki ) with respect to Korea and Japan was short-sighted of Russia with respect to its strategic goals ; to get to and maintain a strong point in Port Arthur Russia would have to dominate and control many additional hundreds of miles of Eastern Manchuria ( the Fengtian province of Imperial China, modern Jilin and Heilongjiang ) up to Harbin.
This was due to Hallmark's previously un-stated ( but long suspected ) short-sighted policy of only distributing Filmation shows outside of the United States.
The old focus on using automation simply to increase productivity and reduce costs was seen to be short-sighted, because it is also necessary to provide a skilled workforce who can make repairs and manage the machinery.
" Over the years, much has been written about the weakness of computers in the endgame — of how they were so short-sighted with respect to the creation of passed pawns, or unwilling to centralize their king when it was the only logical thing to do.
The impetuous and short-sighted opposing general, the consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus, allowed himself to be provoked into a frontal assault under physically difficult circumstances and failed to see that he was being led into a trap.
Some characterized the treaty as short-sighted and argued that much of what Poland had gained during the Polish-Soviet war was lost during the peace negotiations.
Piłsudski felt the agreement was a shameless and short-sighted political calculation.
He claimed Bunter was derived from three persons: a corpulent editor, a short-sighted relative, and another relative who was perpetually trying to raise a loan on the strength of the anticipated arrival of a cheque.
His main physical characteristics are obesity ( he weighs about 14 stone, or 200 pounds, which, at a time when many people did not get enough to eat, was huge ), brought about by over-eating, and short-sightedness ( hence his nickname ' the fat owl of the Remove ', because his round glasses and short-sighted squint give him the appearance of an Owl blinking in the daylight ).
He also thought that industrial development was suffering from short-sighted executives, self-interested unions, high taxes, and poor education of Americans.
I was short-sighted in my thinking, and I was wrong.
Soon after the initiative was announced, a dissenting faction of seven ACE members declared that the decision to support only little-endian architectures was short-sighted.
Being short-sighted he was unfit for military service, and stayed to teach at Cambridge during the Second World War.
He also differed with the capitalists as he thought that unbridled consumerism was immoral, and that the appalling exploitation of the world's resources was short-sighted and unrealistic.
He was an eloquent speaker, and master of many subjects ; and his proved royalism made it impossible for the Ultra-Royalists to discredit him, much as they resented his consistent opposition to their short-sighted violence.
The short-sighted impresario Tetti-Tatti believes this and sets out to destroy Willy, the newspapers announcing that he was going to see.
Much of what Poland had won during the 1920 war was lost in the peace negotiations that were characterized by many as short-sighted and petty.
This was quite short-sighted as the single reached No. 13 without video support ( their highest charter, second only to Dance Desire ).
Entercom granted WBEN-FM the permission to use the call sign, a move that proved to be short-sighted: when FM station WLKK changed to a simulcast of WBEN-AM, it was unable to use the WBEN-FM call sign.
In the fall of 2008, with the economy faltering, the Legislature very belatedly passed what Los Angeles Times political columnist George Skelton called " another atrocious, short-sighted, gimmicky budget that set a record for procrastination " and " wreaked havoc all across California among small business vendors, healthcare centers and nursing homes that couldn't be paid by the state until a budget was enacted.

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