He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

She soared over the new pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the path and not know all the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository.

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

Movement itself was the chief and often the only attraction of the primitive movies of the nineties.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

But just before luncheon today the fact was announced grimly by the British navy's chief adviser to the cabinet on underwater warfare, Capt. George Symonds.

This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.

Control of the government -- such control as there was and such government as there was -- passed into the hands of Joseph Mobutu, chief of staff of the Congolese army.

For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time.

Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr. Livshitz were the chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

Yellow Wolf was there, nephew of the young chief by an older brother long dead, in whom also the disordered chemistries of youth worked.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.

Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

This theory was developed by the British chemist and physicist John Dalton in the 18th century.

Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe ( September 27, 1818 – November 25, 1884 ) was a German chemist.

The name " alkaloids " () was introduced in 1819 by the German chemist Carl F. W.

The first complete synthesis of an alkaloid was achieved in 1886 by the German chemist Albert Ladenburg.

However in the United Kingdom, pioneering research into painting materials and conservation, ceramics, and stone conservation was conducted by Arthur Pillans Laurie, academic chemist and Principal of Heriot-Watt University from 1900.

Rutherford John Gettens was the first chemist in the U. S. to be permanently employed by an art museum.

The first of these scientific concepts of acids and bases was provided by the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, circa 1776.

* Ansbach was the birthplace of the early chemist, Georg Ernst Stahl.

Eventually it was discovered that metallic zinc could be alloyed with copper to make brass ; a process known as speltering and by 1657 the German chemist Johann Glauber had recognised that calamine was " nothing else but unmeltable zinc " and that zinc was a " half ripe metal.

Pure boron was arguably first produced by the American chemist Ezekiel Weintraub in 1909.

It was developed by Belgian-born chemist Leo Baekeland in New York in 1907.

Weizmann was a chemist who had developed a process to synthesize acetone via fermentation.

An alchemist was called a ' chemist ' in popular speech, and later the suffix "- ry " was added to this to describe the art of the chemist as " chemistry ".

One of the first studies of condensed states of matter was by English chemist Humphry Davy, when he observed that of the forty chemical elements known at the time, twenty-six had metallic properties such as lustre, ductility and high electrical and thermal conductivity.

The most common compound of chlorine, sodium chloride, has been known since ancient times ; however, around 1630, chlorine gas was obtained by the Belgian chemist and physician Jan Baptist van Helmont.

Davy was trying to isolate calcium ; when he heard that Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius and Pontin prepared calcium amalgam by electrolyzing lime in mercury, he tried it himself.

He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years.

Carbamazepine was discovered by chemist Walter Schindler at J. R. Geigy AG ( now part of Novartis ) in Basel, Switzerland, in 1953.