In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Along these lines, the particular point that sensitivity in literature leads to sensitivity in human relations would require more proof than I have seen.

Gun on shoulder, he would march smartly for a few yards, bring his heels together with a click, make a brisk pirouette, skirts flaring, and march back to his point of departure.

it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

But it would not be very satisfactory to leave our conclusions at the point just reached.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

Had I been granted the floor on a point of personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

Through the swathings of terror, she jabbed deceit's sharp point -- Amy would be reborn, a new child, with new parents, living under new circumstances.

He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

Juniors who attend this Chicago show should make a point to enter this Class as it would be of great help to them.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

Under the circumstances, however, the team considered it would provide the most useful information at this point.

In such a case, any attitude would be as fitting or unfitting as any other, which means that the notion of fitness has lost all point.

to do so would have spoiled the dramatic point of the scene.

William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.

The sniper, whether psychopathic marksman or murderer by intent, would hardly have walked to his vantage point with rifle over shoulder, whistling a marching tune.

The Narragansett Race Track grounds is one assembly point, he said, and a drive-in theater in Seekonk would be another.

Riverside residents would go to the Seekonk assembly point.

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.

An inch lower and it would have knocked him out.

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

If he spun out now, he would join his opponent on the ground.

His air speed dropped until he thought he would spin out.

Mrs. Roebuck very kindly let me drive through Sante Fe to a road which would, she said, lead us to Taos and then Raton and `` eventshahleh '' out of New Mexico.

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

They thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.

Whenever he saw someone lying in the dirt, Ramey wondered what the person had been thinking and he would try out thoughts in his own mind.

He and Penny would go out on tame elephants, raised from babyhood in the keddah.

Any posse riding down the street to demand Blue Throat's surrender would be wiped out with one deadly burst of fire.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

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.

I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.

Every morning contingents of prisoners would be sent out to labor in nearby factories.

but the basic puzzles of existence would still be puzzling, and we should still have to work out the sort of problems we plan to discuss in this article.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.

Every day, when the President took his nap, Rob Roy would stretch out on the window seat near him, like a perfect gentleman, and stare thoughtfully out the window, or he would take a little nap himself.