These ranged from 10 minutes daily reading for 5-year-olds, to up to 2. 5 hours per day for the pupils in Year 11 aged 15 or 16.

One innovation was that its books were housed in cases ranged along the walls, rather than chained to reading tables, the latter a medieval practice seen still today in the Laurentian Library of Florence.

Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.

There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

To the unfortunate people unable to attend the Godkin lectures it casts an unjustifiable aura of falsehood over the book which may dissuade some people from reading it.

He was reading from the Talmud with a group of men from his congregation.

The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.

Helmut Roloff, playing with a group of musicians from the Bayreuth Ensemble, gives a sturdy reading, in much the same vein as that of the last-mentioned pianists.

For purposes of sample selection only ( individual tests were given later ) we obtained group test scores of reading achievement and intelligence from school records of the entire third-grade population in each school system.

The final sample was not significantly different from a normal distribution in regard to reading achievement or intelligence test scores.

When an occurrence Af is isolated during text reading, a random memory address Af, the address of a cell in the X-region, is computed from the form of Af.

What matters is that while Fromm's reading of the data is not the only one possible, it is precisely the one we would expect from a writer who earnestly believes that every man can and ought to be happy and satisfied.

He gives this to the medium at the appointed time, and the reading then will be concerned with material about or messages from the communicator.

To get around this quite difficult corner, there is one first aid to objectiveness: prevent the distant sitter from knowing which reading was for him.

Pope Pius the Sixth, at Rome, in April, 1778, wrote the following: `` The faithful should be excited to the reading of the Holy Scriptures: For these are the most abundant sources which ought to be left open to everyone, to draw from them purity of morals and of doctrine, to eradicate errors which are so widely disseminated in these corrupt times ''.

But, from our reading of the Western Talmud, we Urielites believe that the Forerunner, knowing this situation would arise, made reference to and provision for divorce.

The process of participant-observation can be especially helpful to understanding a culture from an emic point of view, which would otherwise be unattainable by simply reading from a book.

Although Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies through extensive reading, not fieldwork, mainly the Classics ( literature and history of Greece and Rome ), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries, travelers, and contemporaneous ethnologists.

For example Darrell Schweitzer writing to the New York Review of Science Fiction in 1999 quoted a passage from the original van Vogt novelette “ The Mixed Men ”, which he was then reading, and remarked:

The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

Under the heading of " practices ," his class considers how readers read and marked up their books, forms of note-taking, and the interrelation between reading and writing from copying and translating to composing new texts.

Selection of the operation to be performed, reading, writing, converting to or from binary to decimal, or reducing a set of equations was made by front panel switches and in some cases jumpers.

Agatha had at first been affianced to Percy Craye, though upon reading in the papers of his behavior at a Covent Garden ball, she had ended the engagement.

Since this is an Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule Poirot as its leading character, it is quite unnecessary to say that it makes uncommonly good reading ".

In The Observers issue of July 18, 1937, " Torquemada " ( Edward Powys Mathers ) said, " usually after reading a Poirot story the reviewer begins to scheme for space in which to deal with it adequately ; but Dumb Witness, the least of all the Poirot books, does not have this effect on me, though my sincere admiration for Agatha Christie is almost notorious.

Explaining that he enjoys reading detective stories, Peter says that he has the autographs of Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr and H. C. Bailey.

No one is more adroit than Miss Christie in the manipulation of false clues and irrelevances and red herrings ; and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd makes breathless reading from first to the unexpected last.

Even Miss Christie cannot stay there unchallenged though she has a following which will swear her books are best without reading the others.

" He did admit that, " it is to be feared that some of the evidence collects would fare badly in criminal courts " but concluded, " Miss Christie ’ s new book, in a word, is for the lightest of reading.

Written CD-Rs and CD-RWs are, from a technical standpoint, fully compatible with the Audio CD ( Red Book ) and CD-ROM ( Yellow Book ) standards, although some hardware compatible with Red Book CDs may have difficulty reading CD-Rs and especially CD-RWs.

Nothing in the Red, Yellow or Orange Book standards prohibits disc reading / writing devices from having the capacity to read or write discs beyond the Compact Disc standards.

In the second half of 1945, Thomas began reading for the BBC Radio programme, Book of Verse, broadcast weekly to the Far East providing Thomas with a regular income and bringing him into contact with Louis MacNeice, a congenial drinking companion whose advice Thomas cherished.

" His comments generated controversy across the Atlantic, with the head of the U. S. National Book Foundation offering to send him a reading list.

Shavuot customs include all-night study marathons known as Tikkun Leil Shavuot, eating dairy foods ( cheesecake and blintzes are special favorites ), reading the Book of Ruth, decorating homes and synagogues with greenery, and wearing white clothing, symbolizing purity.

During the Minchah prayer, the haftarah reading features the entire Book of Jonah.

In 2001, to promote reading and education, she partnered with the Library of Congress to launch the annual National Book Festival.

From a careful reading of the Enoch literature and the Book of Giants, alongside the description of the Manichaean myth, it becomes clear that the " Great King of Glory " of this myth ( a being that sits as a guard to the world of light at the seventh of ten heavens in the Manichaean myth ,) is identical with the King of Glory sitting on the heavenly throne in the Enoch literature.

Regular public reading of the Torah was introduced by Ezra the Scribe after the return of the Jewish people from the Babylonian captivity ( c. 537 BCE ), as described in the Book of Nehemiah.

This is followed by Mincha ( the afternoon prayer ) which includes a reading ( Haftarah ) of the entire Book of Jonah, which has as its theme the story of God's willingness to forgive those who repent.

They were reading the Red Book but didn't know who Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, and Nat Turner were.

* In American printings of the Book of Common Prayer, an asterisk is used to divide a verse of a Psalm in two portions for responsive reading.

What made Pocket Books # 1 of revolutionary importance was that it had the distinction of being the very first " mass-market " paperback ; " mass-market " paperbacks allowed people of modest means not just to own books they otherwise might not have been able to afford, it also made it possible for them to slip the paperback into their pocket for casual reading on the go, hence the name " Pocket Book.

Philip the Evangelist, one of the original seven deacons, is directed by the Holy Spirit to catch up to the eunuch's chariot and hears him reading from the Book of Isaiah ( chapter 53 ).

That night, he is buried, with Caton, then another Marine, reading from the Book of Job.

The crowd then read silently from books of their own, earning the city dual entries in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people reading together in one place as well as the most reading together silently.

Marvin Library offers Story Time and summer reading programs for youth, a Teen Cafe for teenagers and the Adult Book Club for adults.

Balak is also the name of the weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading that tells the story of Balak in the Book of Numbers.

The Book of Judges describes Jephthah as leading the Israelites in battle against Ammon and, as the result of a rash vow, some people say he sacrificed his daughter after defeating the Ammonites, however it is possible upon reading the book of Judges that his daughter was subject to a chastity vow as a sacrifice.

On December 24, 1968, in what was the most watched television broadcast to that date, the astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman of Apollo 8 surprised the world with a reading of the Creation from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the moon.

Rosa created Guardians of the Lost Library at the request of Scandinavia-based, European Disney publisher Egmont in reference to the fact that Norway had officially declared 1993 to be " The Year of The Book " in order to promote reading ( as the story was published in Norway and Denmark in 1993, one year prior to its first edition in the original English ).