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Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.
He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.
He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.
he was long past the point of coherent thinking.
I was thinking about that.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
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.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.
As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.
The fossilized, formalized, precedent-based thinking of the legendary military brain was not evident in Sherman's armies.
He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.
He was thinking chiefly of Cap.
He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins', thinking that they might give him a drink.
I knew better but I was thinking of the Pedersen kid mother-naked in all that dough.
He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.
Bobby Joe was thinking about something else.
In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

was and Rittenhouse
The first man-made diffraction grating was made around 1785 by Philadelphia inventor David Rittenhouse, who strung hairs between two finely threaded screws.
The city was rebuilt between 1880 and 1890 in fireproof materials and in a more planned fashion, with characteristically ornate Victorian buildings, many designed by Charles C. Rittenhouse, the first practicing architect in Adams County and also mayor for ten years.
The school was later linked to the Rittenhouse Academy, founded in 1798 and led by Craig.
Georgetown was selected because the community agreed to raise $ 20, 000 and to donate the assets of Rittenhouse Academy, a failed land-grant school that had recently closed.
Rittenhouse Academy was the predecessor of Royal Springs School.
In 2004, Coyoacan was ranked the fifth most livable neighborhood in North America, ahead of Rittenhouse, Philadelphia and behind Camden, Maine.
The 1923 race was won by U. S. Navy Lieutenant David Rittenhouse flying a Curtiss C. R. 3 to.
In 1967 she was awarded the prestigious Rittenhouse Astronomical Society Silver Medal Award for her outstanding achievements in astronomy.
The Rittenhouse Astronomical Society was founded in honour of scholar and astronomer David Rittenhouse.
The first Director of the United States Mint was renowned scientist David Rittenhouse.
His most recent film was Rittenhouse Square ( 2005 ), a documentary capturing life in a Philadelphia park.
The first known proposal for a decimal-based coinage system in the United States was made in 1783 by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and David Rittenhouse.
David Rittenhouse Porter ( October 31, 1788 – August 6, 1867 ) was the ninth Governor of Pennsylvania.
David Rittenhouse ( April 8, 1732 – June 26, 1796 ) was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official.
Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the first director of the United States Mint.
Rittenhouse was born near Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a small village called RittenhouseTown.
When Rittenhouse was 13 years of age, he had mastered Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravity.
Rittenhouse never went to elementary school and was completely self-educated from family books.
Rittenhouse was one of the first to build a telescope in the United States.
Rittenhouse was the perfect person to study the mysterious planet, as he had a personal observatory on his family farm.
Rittenhouse served on the American Astronomical Society, and this was another factor in being chosen to study Venus.
David Rittenhouse was married twice.
David's grandson ( son of Ester ) was named David Rittenhouse Waters.

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