He maintained contact with these other monasteries above all through his prodigious literary output ( letters as well as catechisms ), which reached a quantitative peak at this time, and developed a system of messengers that was so elaborate as to resemble a private postal service.

Due to his prodigious literary output he was arguably the best known economist in the world during his lifetime and was one of a select few people to be awarded the Medal of Freedom, in 1946, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2000, for services to economics.

Freeman's life was marked by a prodigious literary output.

In those years he displayed his literary skills and prodigious memory in his Avadhanam.

Hawkins, however, suggests that it was " Lie's prodigious research activity during the four-year period from the fall of 1869 to the fall of 1873 " that led to the theory's creation ( ibid ).

In addition to his prodigious activity in the field of caricature — the list of Daumier's lithographed plates compiled in 1904 numbers no fewer than 3, 958 — he also painted.

Ritter's masterwork, the 19-volume Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen ( Geography in Relation to Nature and the History of Mankind ), written 1816 – 1859, developed at prodigious length the theme of the influence of the physical environment on human activity.

As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.

His activity was prodigious, and Catherine called him her factotum.

During the Revolutionary War, Connecticut's prodigious agricultural output led to it being known informally as " the Provisions State ".

After some adventures in north Africa and a close encounter with the Sirens, Brutus discovers another group of exiled Trojans living on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea, led by the prodigious warrior Corineus.

The prodigious steam available from eight reactors led to many urban legends crediting Enterprise ( and the later Nimitz-class carriers ) with maximum speeds substantially higher than this ; however, since the turbines used on Enterprise are identical to those on previous oil-fired carriers, the maximum burst speed cannot be substantially higher.

Their prodigious, production line-like output and similar song structures led to them being referred to as the " hit factory " ( not to be confused with the record label of the same name or the New York City recording studio The Hit Factory ) and attracted criticism from many quarters, including the Guardian newspaper who unflatteringly dubbed the team, " Schlock, Aimless and Waterdown ".

In the summer of, Munson joined the Cape Cod Baseball League, where he led the Chatham A's to their first league title with a prodigious. 420 batting average.

More usually indicates a group of prodigious size ; conversely, no drum major may indicate a small band conducted by its director or a group led by a horn sergeant or drumline captain.

Despite ( or perhaps due to ) its prodigious straight-line speed the bike didn't handle well, with Bayliss often over-riding and crashing frequently, this led to Bayliss ' subsequent sacking from the factory Ducati squad, a part of which Bayliss had been for five years previous.

It is said that four weeks after Śākyamuni Buddha began meditating under the Bodhi tree, the heavens darkened for seven days, and a prodigious rain descended.

The band surprised early audiences accustomed to the generally shambling, lo-fi and collage-like quality of the records with their energetic live show, featuring Pollard's homegrown rock theatrics ( consisting of karate-kicks, leaps, and Roger Daltrey-inspired mic-twirling ), Mitch Mitchell's windmilling and chain smoking, sometime bassist Greg Demos ' striped pants, a never-ending barrage of tunes that all seemed to clock in under 90 seconds, and prodigious alcohol consumption all around.

He needs the help of Mr. Lightfoot, the local fix-it man who has a prodigious ability with all machines, to get out from under it.

During the Second World War Ray's prodigious output slowed, but he was able to publish his best works in French, under the name Jean Ray: Le Grand Nocturne ( 1942 ), La Cité de l ' Indicible Peur, also adapted into a film starring Bourvil, Malpertuis, Les Cercles de L ' Epouvante ( all 1943 ), Les Derniers Contes de Canterbury ( 1944 ) and Le Livre des Fantômes ( 1947 ).

The assigned objective of this prodigious mass of men was to bludgeon its way forward and take the village of Süssenbrunn, the seam between the Austrian Grenadier Reserve and III Korps.

His energy was prodigious ; ;

Diocletian, by contrast, was prodigious in his affairs: there are around 1, 200 rescripts in his name still surviving, and these probably represent only a small portion of the total issue.

Although no more than 250 men were employed on the site, a prodigious amount of exacting preparatory work was entailed: the drawing office produced 1, 700 general drawings and 3, 629 detail drawings of the 18, 038 different parts needed.

A prodigious home run hitter, Greenberg narrowly missed breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938, when he was again voted to the All-Star Team and hit 58 home runs, leading the league for the second time.

Major's appearance was noted in its greyness, his prodigious philtrum, and large glasses, all of which were exaggerated in caricatures.

However, given that Bradman scored 232, it was not thought that a way to curb his prodigious scoring had been found.

Soon after, third guitarist Colin Bayley was added to the band's touring lineup, and Kennedy was replaced by prodigious young drummer Chad Wackerman ( ex Frank Zappa ).

His output in every field during his long life was prodigious ; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century.

The birds traveled and reproduced in prodigious numbers, satiating predators before any substantial negative impact was made in the bird's population.

The ships ' speed was also prodigious for the time, estimated at a maximum of.

For others, his youthful success was the mark of a prodigious military talent, divine favour and personal brio that merited popular support.

" He was regarded as a srutidhara — a man with prodigious memory.

Fraser and the Liberal-CP senators ... lacked the numbers to defer the Budget until the arrival in the Senate of Albert Patrick Field, whose arrival was not due to any decision by the Australian voters but to a decision by one of the rulers, the Whitlam-hating Bjelke-Petersen ... Whitlam for his part had decided even before the Budget was deferred to embark upon the bold, Cromwellian project of changing the Australian Constitution, not through the vote of the mass electorate ... but through prodigious personal exertions backed by the support of his parliamentary followers.

It was only after Claver's death that the vast scope of his ministry came to be realized ; which was prodigious even before the astronomical number of people he baptized is added in.

A point of interest is that the " high, domed forehead " was seen as the sign of a prodigious intellect during Conan Doyle's time.

The women engaged in music, song and dance on their way to the place, great sacrifices were made and prodigious amounts of wine were drunk, more than was the case throughout the year.

When the couch was alpieued, or parolied, to sept-et-le-va, quinze-et-le-va, trente-et-le-va, etc., the punter's gains were prodigious.

Many of the projects were set in motion by Johnson, Depp & Quisenberry, a firm of consulting engineers then engaged in a runway redesign at the County Airport ; the ' Depp ' in question was a member of an old and prodigious Kentucky family which includes the town's most famous son, actor Johnny Depp.

He kept up his prodigious output of fiction, as well as producing a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, until 1831.

The " prodigious new expansion of multinational capital ends up penetrating and colonizing those very pre-capitalist enclaves ( Nature and the Unconscious ) which offered extraterritorial and Archimedean footholds for critical effectivity ".

The initial proliferation of DCSs required the installation of prodigious amounts of this hardware, most of it manufactured from the bottom up by DCS suppliers.

Among the rest was one detestable monster, named Goëmagot ( Gogmagog ), in stature twelve cubits, and of such prodigious strength that at one shake he pulled up an oak as if it had been a hazel wand.

Her life's motto summed up her prodigious generosity: “ Money is like manure ; it ’ s not worth a thing unless it ’ s spread around .”

Guerrero's superior hand-eye coordination and prodigious strength allowed him to be unusually aggressive at the plate, but still put up high batting averages year after year.

" A legendary poet, Rimbaud once wrote to his mentor Georges Izambard that " the poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious and rational disordering of the senses ... He reaches the unknown and even if, crazed, he ends up by losing the understanding of his visions, at least he has seen them.

" All through his life and up to his last day, Frank Sprague had a prodigious capacity for work ," his son Robert wrote in 1935.

The publicity that gradually came to surround him included the creation of his famous " stair dance " ( which he claimed to have invented on the spur of the moment when he was receiving an honor from the King of England, who was standing at the top of a flight of stairs – Bojangles ' feet just danced up to be honored ); his successful gambling exploits ; his bow ties of multiple colors ; his prodigious charity ; his ability to run backward extremely fast ; his argot, most notably the neologism copacetic ; and such stunts as dancing down Broadway in 1939 from Columbus Circle to 44th Street in celebration of his 61st birthday.

Dr. Klapwijk picked up many of the loose ends in Vollenhoven's prodigious work, especially those around a central distinction within the new philosophy — namely, the problem that can be approached in terms of an antithesis / common-grace distinction with its theological overcast, and the problem of radicality / normalcy within the history of Western philosophy, which leads to an inquiry regarding reformational philosophy's place within its broader context, synchronically and diachronically.

Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, the son of a Lhasa aristocrat, takes up theological studies and is soon recognised for his prodigious abilities.