knowing that its ageless mass would always dwarf the short span of time allotted to any man.

In a short time the officer returned and Thomas followed on his heels.

He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

In my short period here I believe that at no time has he been otherwise than the most popular man on both sides of the aisle.

Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

Miss Sally May Saabye, ( Miss Rhode Island 1960 ) says that within a short time -- on June 17th -- her reign will come to an end.

This agreement is considered very good for such short time intervals.

The need here is most clearly felt and our capacity to recruit and train qualified volunteers in a short period of time is greatest.

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

If the lever is pulled to clear a signal or move a switch, the tappet moves a short distance lengthwise at the same time.

In the relatively short time since these early observations, Venus has been observed at additional wave lengths in the range from 0.8 to 10.2 cm, and Jupiter has been observed over the wave-length range from 3.03 to 68 Aj.

unfortunately, no one has kept complete records of one individual, whereas many have been made for a very short period of time.

Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.

In some programs, treatment is concentrated over a short period of time, while in others, after the initial contact is established, flexible spacing of interviews has been experimentally used with apparent success.

Somewhat to his surprise he found that one girl, whom he would never have considered for the job since she had appeared somewhat mousy and also had been in the office a relatively short time, did the most outstanding job of playing the role of receptionist, showing wit, sparkle, and aplomb.

Typically, the young child's emotional reactions last for a relatively short time, as contrasted to those of an adult.

As the child grows older, his emotional reactions lead to `` moods '', or emotional states drawn out over a period of time and expressed slowly, rather than in short, abrupt outbursts.

In spite of the relatively short period of time that we have experienced among you, we have already seen many indications of your character and spirit.

At the beginning of the school year, the new students don't eat the cereal right away, but within a short time they are eating it voraciously.

During the first few days of wearing the appliance and immediately following each adjustment, Susan may have a slight discomfort or soreness, but after a short time this will disappear.

So Mel Chandler set out to sell him on the spirit of Garryowen, just as he himself had been sold a short time before.

A short time ago all Africa was a Western preserve.

These short, `` streamlined '' meetings usually are sponsored by local banks, Chambers of Commerce, trade associations, or other civic organizations.

Inability to care for the other children, difficulty in feeding the babies, who seemed colicky, bone-weary fatigue, repeated crying episodes, and short tempers reflected the family's helplessness in coping with the stressful situation.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

They went along the pass talking with each other for a short while until they came to a river roaring with torrent.

Against my folks' wishes, we'd been seeing each other for short rides in the truck.

A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

The first digit, called the hallux, was short and only the other three contacted the ground, with the third ( middle ) digit longer than the rest.

ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.

Agrippina and Nero would see each other on short visits.

This algorithm, for all strings, allows codes as short as allowed by any other algorithm up to an additive constant that depends on the algorithms, but not on the strings themselves.

The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.

His mind was entirely absorbed in the labors of his studio, and, with the exception of his journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts of Italy, he never quit Rome.

Cuyp was one of the first Dutch painters to appreciate this new leap forward in style and while his own Both-inspired phase was quite short ( limited to the mid 1640s ) he did, more than any other contemporary Dutch artist, maximize the full chromatic scale for sunsets and sunrises.

In short order, the powerful army brought under its control the Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkmen, and other tribes of northern Afghanistan.

In total $ 2. 3 billion was invested, half of which long in Shell and the other half short in Royal Dutch ( Lowenstein, p. 99 ).

They have six stamens, four of which are longer ( as long as the petals, so relatively short in fact ) and are arranged in a cross like the petals and the other two are shorter ( tetradynamous flower ).

; 3. 2: A shuttlecock of the correct speed will land not less than 530 mm and not more than 990 mm short of the other back boundary line.

The former found himself isolated in a hostile country with only 22, 000 men and short of provisions, while on the other side of the

* Various: several short sources, none of which have much connection to each other, and are fairly independent of the rest of the text.

The little chapters are very short lessons read at the other " hours.

The Book of Common Prayer is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, " Anglican realignment " and other Anglican churches.

Their major objections ( exceptions ) were: firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer ( as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer ), other than to say " Amen "; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister ; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion ; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations ; and fifthly, that all surviving " Catholic " ceremonial should be removed.

Morse code was introduced in the 1840s and is used to encode each letter of the Latin alphabet, each Arabic numeral, and some other characters via a series of long and short presses of a telegraph key.

In the short break between individual dances, women and men invite each other to dance.

If the sets are short to medium length the caller will often try to run the dance until each couple has danced with every other couple both as a 1 and a 2 and returned to where they started.