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His work on Cantometrics gave rise to further comparative studies of aspects of human communication in relation to culture, including: Choreometrics, Parlametrics, Phonotactics ( an analysis of vowel frequency in speech ), and Minutage ( a study of breath management ).
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work and on
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.
`` My dress needs some work on it ''.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.
Then she rounded on Weston and cried, `` You always did Wright's dirty work!!
Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.
Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.
And I was to go to work on that odd matter.
Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.
Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.
The work week of attendants who are on duty 65 hours and more per week should be reduced.
But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.
Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
`` Argiento, this is senseless '', he complained, not liking to work on the wet floors, particularly in cold weather.
Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work.
She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.
Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.
`` How you going to work with a child hanging on you ''??
work and Cantometrics
In the early stages of his work on the Cantometrics coding system, Lomax wrote of the relationship of musical style to culture :" Its fundamental diagnostic traits appear to be vocal quality ( color, timbre, normal pitch, attack, type of melodic ornamentation, etc.
Gideon D ' Arcangelo, a member of the Cantometrics team, described their work this way: Using 37 criteria of observation, the Cantometrics team analyzed over 4, 000 songs – around 10 representative songs from over 400 cultures.
work and gave
and it gave Miriam Noel a fund of energy like that of a person inspired to complete some great and universal work of art.
On the basis of this careful reading, Thompson frequently gave a clear, complete, and interesting description of a prose work or chose effective quotations to illustrate his discussions of poetry.
This work gave a heat of formation of aluminum fluoride which closely substantiates a value which had been determined by a less direct method, and raises this property to 15 percent above that accepted a few years ago.
The Geological Society of America gave a grant-in-aid to complete the work and bore the expenses of publication.
D'Artaguette went vigorously to work, and gave credit to many hunters.
She gave a little pout and said, `` I don't get off work until eleven o'clock.
He made the most of the long Brahmsian phrases, and by the directness and drive of his playing gave the work a handsome performance.
The upshot of the evening was that I got the address of Pendleton's studio -- or rather, of the studio in which he gave his classes, for he didn't work there himself -- and joined the life class, which met every Tuesday and Thursday from ten to twelve in the morning.
He completed the work of Black, Priestley and Cavendish, and gave a correct explanation of their experiments.
The original commission that reached Salieri in 1783 – 84 was to assist Gluck in finishing a work for Paris that had been all but completed ; in reality, Gluck had failed to notate any of the score for the new opera and gave the entire project over to his young friend.
However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
" Fuller referred to himself as " the property of universe " and during one radio interview he gave later in life, declared himself and his work " the property of all humanity ".
Gregory VII ( pope 1073 – 1085 ), too, simplified the liturgy as performed at the Roman court, and gave his abridgment the name of Breviary, which thus came to denote a work which from another point of view might be called a Plenary, involving as it did the collection of several works into one.
Mutual gave Chaplin his own Los Angeles studio to work in, which opened in March 1916.
Only a year later, at the age of 39, Doppler gave a lecture to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and subsequently published his most notable work, " Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels " ( On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens ).
Pissarro, on the other hand, preferred to finish his paintings outdoors, often at one sitting, which gave his work a more realistic feel.
They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.
President Bush recognized Miss Day's work on behalf of animals by saying, " It was a good day for our fellow creatures when she gave her good heart to the cause of animal welfare.
In 1823, the British government gave Babbage ₤ 1700 to start work on the project.
Husserl became increasingly critical of Heidegger's work, especially in 1929, and included pointed criticism of Heidegger in lectures he gave during 1931.
Since the latter is valid over the entire cycle, this gave Clausius the hint that at each stage of the cycle, work and heat would not be equal, but rather their difference would be a state function that would vanish upon completion of the cycle.
De Pomiane worked as a physician at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he gave Félix d ' Herelle a place to work on bacteriophages.
For his wartime work on radio the French government gave him the Legion of Honor in 1919.
Though his work was based on syntagmatic structure, it gave the scope to understand the structure of folktales, of which he discovered thirty one functions.
He achieved most of the first four goals in his first hundred days, as FDR gave him 20 % of the entire national CWA budget for work relief.
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