But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.

Working in a vacuum of minimal information can result only in show pieces that look good in exhibitions and catalogs and may please the public relations department but have little to do with the essence of interior design.

Although works of precious gems and metals usually do not survive the ravages of time, some fine pieces of Assyrian jewelry were found in royal tombs at Nimrud.

I want to see institutions like Throop turn out perhaps ninety-nine of every hundred students as men who are to do given pieces of industrial work better than any one else can do them ; I want to see those men do the kind of work that is now being done on the Panama Canal and on the great irrigation projects in the interior of this country — and the one-hundredth man I want to see with the kind of cultural scientific training that will make him and his fellows the matrix out of which you can occasionally develop a man like your great astronomer, George Ellery Hale.

The aim of the game is simply to enter all one's pieces into the star corner on the opposite side of the board, before opponents do the same.

Various styles dictate the curve of the fingers and thumb, as do the style of piece ; a more pronounced curve and lighter hold on the bow is used for virtuoso or more delicate pieces, while a flatter curve and sturdier grip on the bow sacrifices some power for easier control in strokes such as detaché, spiccato, and staccato.

It is almost impossible to apportion accurately the various pieces to their respective authors, though more than one attempt has been made to do so.

Some commercial potato varieties do not produce seeds at all ( they bear imperfect flowers ) and are propagated only from tuber pieces.

More rigorously, if a surface S is a union of finitely many pieces S < sub > 1 </ sub >, …, S < sub > r </ sub > which do not overlap except at their boundaries then

The pieces of the two players do not differ in colour, but instead each faces forward, toward the opposing side.

Just like objects in states of affairs, the chess pieces do not alone constitute the game — their arrangements, together with the pieces ( objects ) themselves, determine the state of affairs.

There are pieces that do not loop, meaning they only play one time and are triggered on specific events.

Hearst could be hyperbolic in his crime coverage ; one of his early pieces, regarding a " band of murderers ," attacked the police for forcing Examiner reporters to do their work for them.

Various special pieces do different things:

Garnets do not show cleavage, so when they fracture under stress, sharp irregular pieces are formed.

Turtles do not molt their skins all at once, as snakes do, but continuously, in small pieces.

How easy to pick some of his books to pieces, to laugh at him for so much of his heavy prose ... he fellows of the ink-pots, the prose writers in America who follow Dreiser, will have much to do that he has never done.

The King is the only piece that captures, as chess pieces do, by moving into a square that is occupied by an enemy piece.

While some finer sets do include an extra queen of each color, most standard chess sets do not come with additional pieces, so the physical piece used to replace a promoted pawn on the board is usually one that was previously captured.

But if the dialog is followed closely, Casssius ’ recognition of what he has to do, and how he has to coordinate the interaction of pieces of his “ Calder ” mobiles, is perfectly clear.

The finds at Kalkriese, where, along with 6, 000 pieces ( largely scraps ) of Roman equipment, there is only one single item — part of a spur — that is clearly Germanic, would seem to indicate minimal Germanic losses.

Instead, Rococo's cannonball pawns seem to hang away from enemy pieces by two or three squares, rarely coming into contact with each other without advance preparation.

The " period of widespread introduction " would seem to be around 1550 to 1650, when it moves from being a rarity on highly decorated pieces to being a substance described in the standard texts of the day.

She regularly read to soldiers in the military hospitals and on the front line ; indeed, her later pieces seem to be the voice of those who had struggled and the many she has outlived.

Graffiti in Tijuana may seem at first to consist largely of simplistic tags and thus not as technically evolved, colorful, or accepted in the mainstream as the " pieces " of graffiti scenes of the United States, Europe, or Japan, but large, colorful graffiti murals adorn walls from both native Tijuanan artists as well as visiting graffiti writers, especially from California.

His garden offers of trees and shrubs formed into fanciful spirals, 3-dimensional pieces, pom poms, and other extraordinary shapes that always seem to render visitors awestruck.

Another consequence was a tendency to overwork details, which robbed these pieces of freshness of inspiration and made then seem " overdone ".

The " feel " of such instruments is rich and melodious to the point that they seem out of place when used in darker, more rhythmic pieces of classical music.

Several critical pieces of evidence seem to point to Ralph.

Sontag believes however that ‘ photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire ’.

The black pieces did not seem up to the task of both holding off the white pawns and pushing through the black pawn, while the white rook was working effectively through threats alone, without even moving.

Nobody has ever managed to get an exact count of how many rooms or doors ; attempts to make CAD models of the building have failed ( except for a very coarse model used during modelling of the fire extinguisher system ), simply because the pieces do not seem to fit together.

That group consisted of " just three pieces, a battered guitar, a mandolin and a worn-out bass " ( Handy described the group as " a Mississippi string band ") and played " one of those over-and-over again strains that seem to have no very clear beginning and certainly no ending at all ... It was not really annoying or unpleasant.

At the end of this sequence, a cube arises from the water, and a man starts slowly balancing himself on the rotating cube while representations of human kind's greatest achievements, contrasted to humanistic representations and images of men, women, and children of various ethnicities and ages, are projected onto the pieces of broken sculpture, which seem to be floating above the water.

The decoration on a number of bronze scabbards, many found in the River Bann, have inspired much discussion, as they seem close to other pieces from as far away as Hungary, and the possibility of an immigrant master has been raised.

Popular during the 1940s, Kevin Starr includes it in " an array of drinks ( the gin sour, the whiskey sour, the Gin Rickey, the Tom Collins, the Pink lady, the Old Fashioned ) that now seem period pieces, evocative of another era.

It would seem, therefore, that Benteen must be condemned ; yet if he had tried to carry out the order it is possible his three companies would have been hacked to pieces en route.

The Bc5 may not seem particularly useful in this attack, but by eyeing e3 it makes it difficult for White to play f4 to chase away the black knight ; furthermore, the attack on e3 is sometimes intensified with major pieces doubling on the e-file.

There are set pieces made out of wood studded with light bulbs ; the characters and objects portrayed seem to “ move ” by way of winking lights.

At first his suspicions are based on little things such as Oliver's architectural blueprints that seem to be for something other than the shopping mall he claims he's building, as well as pieces of mail that contradict where Oliver said he attended college.

However, many pieces which were produced at Langley Mill seem to have no marks at all.

Many times on the air he said that what sets fine furniture above mediocre furniture is attention to detail, such as watching the grain when joining two pieces to make it seem as if carved from a solid block of wood.

Three key pieces of information seem to support this: Firstly, Darius I, like Cyrus, also conquered Babylon and personally commanded the Persian army that took the city in 522 BCE to put down a rebellion.

Concerted pieces seem to have been sometimes played by harpers only, of whom as many as ten or twelve joined in the execution.