In 1941, interviews on American radio and favorable articles in US magazines, including a piece by Jack Alexander in The Saturday Evening Post, led to increased book sales and membership.

* Buffalo nickel or Indian Head nickel, an American nickel five-cent piece minted from 1913 to 1938

The British Journal of Education in 1955 carried a piece by Janice Dohn, an American children's librarian, considering Blyton's writing together with authors of formula fiction, and making negative comments about Blyton's devices and tone.

The piece premiered first in New York rather than London, in an ( unsuccessful ) attempt to secure the American copyright, and was another big success with both critics and audiences.

The historian Douglas Adair called Madison's work " probably the most fruitful piece of scholarly research ever carried out by an American.

With the aid of French session musicians Barney Wilen, Pierre Michelot, and René Urtreger, and American drummer Kenny Clarke, he recorded the entire soundtrack with an innovative procedure, without relying on written material: starting from sparse indication of the harmony and a general feel of a given piece, the group played by watching the movie on a screen in front of them and improvising.

Pork Chop Hill ( 1959 ) was the most notable 1950s American anti-war propaganda piece about the Korean war.

In the rest of 2007, They Might Be Giants wrote a commissioned piece for Brooklyn-based robotic music outfit League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and performed for three dates at the event, and covered the Pixies " Havalina " for American Laundromat Records Dig For Fire-a tribute to PIXIES compilation.

* Miss Scarlett ( spelt Miss Scarlet in North American versions after 1963 – a red piece )

* Reverend Green ( named Mr. Green in pre-2002 North American versions – a green piece )

The town became noticed in American media when CBS 60 minutes made a critical piece on the town being the " safe-haven " for American corporations.

In 2005, Richard Schickel included the film on Time. com's ALL-TIME 100 best films, saying " It had wonderful songs a sweetly unneurotic performance by Judy Garland .... Despite its nostalgic charm, Minnelli infused the piece with a dreamy, occasionally surreal, darkness and it remains, for some of us, the greatest of American movie musicals.

John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence is so unique and well known that the phrase " John Hancock " has become a synonym for " signature " in American English, and a prominent piece of American iconography.

Jimmie Durham, an American Indian conceptual artist, references Fanon's postcolonial thought in a piece entitled " Often Durham Employs ..." ( 1998 ), with this quote from Fanon: " The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers.

The Tides of Manaunaun is a short piano piece by American composer Henry Cowell ( 1897 – 1965 ).

American composer John Cage's Music of Changes ( 1951 ) is often considered the first piece to be conceived largely through random procedures ( Randel 2002, 17 ), though his indeterminacy is of a different order from Meyer-Eppler's concept.

In the American design, one continuous piece of string, double the desired length, is twisted around itself to produce a loop at one end which is fitted around the axle.

Ironically, Drago comments that Rocky " is not human, he is like a piece of iron " with his own corner reprimanding him for being " weak " in comparison to the " small American.

The barn was not only a piece of American history, but it became well known throughout the community because the owner, Darrel Zimmerman, allowed the barn to be used for a multitude of events such as weddings, graduations, and other meetings.

The only remaining piece of the Bank of Pennsylvania — one of the stone pillars — was moved to Adrian, Michigan and erected as the Civil War Memorial in commemoration of those in Adrian who died in the American Civil War.

A sampling of his versatility in addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire would include his recordings of Baroque pieces using period instruments ; American bluegrass music ; traditional Chinese melodies including the soundtrack to the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ; the tangos of Argentinian composer Ástor Piazzolla ; an eclectic and unusual collaboration with Bobby McFerrin ( where Ma admitted to being terrified of the improvisation McFerrin pushed him toward ); as well as the music of modern minimalist Philip Glass in such works as the 2002 piece Naqoyqatsi.

Audiences were enthusiastic about seeing a piece of the American West.

klyt " piece of bad workmanship, kludge ", and Standard Danish kludder " mess, disorder ".

A free summary in English of the Standard Rules is contained on Charles Roth's website, including omissions and ambiguities regarding piece moves across the four Tri-D gameboard 2 × 2 attack boards.

Standard encoding includes a ' 0 ' start bit and ' 1 ' stop bit around every 8 bit piece of information, giving an effective data rate of 960 bits per second.

Following the Standard Algebraic Notation ( SAN ), each piece is identified by a single letter taken from the standard English names ( pawn

Either a 3. 6 metre one piece aluminium lower mast section or a fibreglass extender to fit the Laser Standard aluminium lower mast section.

Standard models have a bolt-on 3 piece maple neck with an ash body construction.

The formal piece proved more popular and is the only version produced today ; in Standard, Tournalux ( larger ), and Grandelux ( larger and higher quality ) versions.

Thomas Joscelyn of Weekly Standard wrote a critical piece on Scheuer and an interview Scheuer did on Chris Matthews Hardball.

The effort to place restrictions on land use in New York City led to the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act, a key piece of legislation in the history of zoning.

The " Standard Edition " model is presented in 12 piece wooden anniversary boxes.

The major difference in this game style in addition to its being a four-player match, is that it is ten times faster than the Standard game style in terms of both piece movement and delay ( set to 0. 1 ), and therefore F4W games are characterized with more action and speed rather than strategy in the Standard style.

On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.

How titillating it was to go among people who did not know him as the composer, but who talked in the most glowing terms of the promise of the piece after having heard the first rehearsals.

The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

The head was wrapped in a turban and on top of the turban rode a great hamper across which a piece of poncho had been flung.

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

The clock on the mantel piece was scandalized and ticked so loudly that he glanced at it over his shoulder and then quickly left the room.

It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.

The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

Beccaria had almost stumbled on a lead to the relationship between electricity and magnetism when a discharge from a Leyden jar was sent transversally through a piece of watch-spring steel making its ends magnetic.

As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.

He was holding the piece of lead pipe out to me.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

Every piece of the nightmare was clear, in place ; ;

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

One important piece of advice Yamamoto gave Kurosawa was that a good director needed to master screenwriting.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).