But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.

But Interior Secretary Udall warns that there is a race on between those who would develop our few surviving open shorelines and those who would save them for the enjoyment of all as public preserves.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

George Lansbury and Attlee were among the few surviving Labour MPs who had served in government.

Researchers have pointed out that the reproductive strategy of the surviving nautiloids, which rely upon few and larger eggs, played a role in outsurviving their ammonoid counterparts through the extinction event.

A few days later, Julian was married to Helena, the last surviving sister of Constantius.

There are few surviving sources on Caligula's reign, although he is described as a noble and moderate ruler during the first two years of his rule.

There are few surviving sources on Caligula and no surviving source paints Caligula in a favorable light.

* City of Adelaide Clipper Ship, one of the few surviving clippers

The few surviving bacteria conserve their energy and stored nutrients during the passage through the stomach by shutting down much protein production.

This group, he claimed, were the New Forest coven, and he believed them to be one of the few surviving covens of the ancient, pre-Christian Witch-Cult religion.

Hadrian wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek ; one of the few surviving examples is a Latin poem he reportedly composed on his deathbed ( see below ).

Holt's son Nicholas Holt said that after 37 years there were few surviving witnesses and no new evidence would be presented.

After the fall of Hitler, Hartmann was one of the few prominent surviving anti-fascists in Bavaria whom the postwar Allied administration could appoint to a position of responsibility.

The surviving records give only a few instances of lending features.

There are scattered survivals from the Iberian Peninsula before this time, of a type of notation known as Visigothic neumes, but its few surviving fragments have not yet been deciphered .< ref > Zapke 2007,

The few surviving Merovingian edicts are almost entirely concerned with settling divisions of estates among heirs.

From these few references, which are the only surviving evidence apart from place name analysis, it would seem that the Balts Pytheas would have encountered were past the Common Balto-Slavic stage, but still spoke one language, which would have been Proto-Baltic.

Before that date, the only papyri known were a few surviving from medieval times.

This was a highly gregarious species the flock could initiate courtship and reproduction only when they were gathered in large numbers ; it was realized only too late that smaller groups of Passenger Pigeons could not breed successfully, and the surviving numbers proved too few to re-establish the species.

There are few representations of this type of choke in surviving art objects, but there are a number of references to it in the ancient literature.

Lingula is among the few brachiopods surviving today but also known from fossils over 500 million years old.

Unlike the works of her fellow poet, Alcaeus, Sappho's surviving poetry has very few allusions to political conditions.

This unexpected development sets the stage for the second act ( December 2001 — November 2005 ), in which humans from Earth colonize the deserted planet, occasionally having contact with the few surviving Martians, but for the most part preoccupied with making Mars a second Earth.

and among works of dystopian science fiction, not all provide intelligent criticism and very few have much merit as literature -- but then real quality has always been scarce in science fiction.

Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.

The idea has received much attention in philosophy, in literature, and in a few works of general social criticism, such as The Sane Society.

He wrote many theological and dogmatic treatises, as well as a few grammatical works and a number of poems.

Aldine Press was the printing office started by Aldus Manutius in 1494 in Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine editions of the classics ( Latin and Greek masterpieces plus a few more modern works ).

His home a few kilometers outside Banyuls, also the site of his final resting place, has been turned into a museum where a number of his works and sketches are displayed.

With a few important exceptions like abstract painting, works of art simulate experiences of the world.

In his old age Salieri hinted that these works were either purposely destroyed, or had been lost with the exception of a few works for the church.

Prints are highly portable and these works made Dürer famous throughout the main artistic centres of Europe within a very few years.

Others are known only from mentions in Clement's own writings, including On Marriage and On Prophecy, although few are attested by other writers and it is difficult to separate works which he intended to write from those which were actually completed.

As of May 2007, only a few works have been translated into English.

In the genre of string quintets, there are a few works for string quartet with double bass.

While encyclopedias in larger languages, having large markets that could support a large editorial staff, churned out new 20-volume works in a few years and new editions with brief intervals, such publication plans often spanned a decade or more in smaller languages.

These few works have successfully made the transition from the elite realm of the museum visitor to the enormous venue of popular culture.

Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain.

Stephan Wrage, managing director of SkySails GmbH announced: " During the next few months we will finally be able to prove that our technology works in practice and significantly reduces fuel consumption and emissions.

Frescoes were also painted in ancient Greece, but few of these works have survived.

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).

However, Schmidt left this composition unfinished, and in the summer and autumn of 1938, a few months before his death, set it aside to devote himself to two other commissioned works for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein, for whom he had often composed: the Clarinet Quintet in A major and the solo Toccata in D minor.

Because Galen's works were not translated into Latin in the ancient period, and because of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the study of Galen, along with the Greek medical tradition as a whole, went into decline in Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages, when very few Latin scholars could read Greek.

In addition to the more numerous translations of Arabic texts in this period, there were a few translations of Galenic works directly from the Greek, such as Burgundio of Pisa's translation of De complexionibus.

A few instances of gematria in Arabic, Spanish and Greek, spelled with the Hebrew letters, are mentioned in the works of Rabbi Abraham Abulafia ; some Hasidic Rabbis also used it, though rarely, for Yiddish.

" He lived there until 1921, when pollution produced by peat works on the lake forced him to move to Viareggio, a few kilometres north.