Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

To get it out into the daylight's glow Is my life's aim both first and last, the whole.

if so, he would not be the first or last commanding officer who has succumbed to bad information and dubious estimates of the future.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.

February's volume was 1 per cent above January's for the first pickup since last October, although it's still 1.5 per cent off from February 1960.

Escalation is their first love and their last ; ;

It was not until the last year of his life that he had his first moneymaking show.

Fiscal year taxpayers have until the last day of the first month following the close of the fiscal year ( farmers until the 15th day of the 2d month ).

Let me say at the outset that the music sounded as sparkling on the last playing as it did on the first.

For example, instead of putting in your driveways last ( as many builders do ) you can now save money by putting them in first.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

In analyzing this regulation, let us take the last sentence first.

In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

The first section of this publication appeared in 1948 and the last supplement in 1960.

Then comes the time when the last wire is removed and Susie walks out a healthier and more attractive girl than when she first went to the orthodontist.

It was the conclusion of the first phase of a process of tragic recollection, and of refining the recollection, that will last as long as there are Jews.

To quote Professor Saintsbury: `` The last glass of claret or Burgundy is as good as the first ; ;

but the first glass of Chateau d'Yquem or Montrachet is a great deal better than the last ''!!

I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.

It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.

At his first speech, when he saw a supporter in the crowd being attacked, Lincoln grabbed the assailant by his " neck and the seat of his trousers " and threw him.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

In his first biennial speech, he urged simplification of the state judicial system, abolishment of the Bank of Tennessee and establishment of an agency to provide uniformity in weights and measures, the latter of which was passed.

In his first speech in Nashville, Johnson declared he had come back home with an olive branch in one hand and the Constitution in the other.

He also notes that according to Genesis, the first speech act is due to Eve, addressing the serpent, and not to Adam.

A speech given on 3 November 1906 was the first time the pathology and the clinical symptoms of presenile dementia were presented together.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

) Bob Jones, Jr. selected a speech teacher, Katherine Stenholm, as the first director.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

The computer itself must first be " trained " before the first or second of these methods are used ; that is, the new user enters the system in a special " learning mode " so that the system can learn to identify his handwriting or speech patterns.

The term " Canadian English " is first attested in a speech by the Reverend A. Constable Geikie in an address to the Canadian Institute in 1857.

A clitic syntactically functions above the word level, on the phrase or clause level, and attaches only phonetically to the first, last, or only word in the phrase or clause, whichever part of speech the word belongs to.

May 20 Republican Year 37 / 1948, Chiang Kai-shek's inauguration speech as the first President of the Republic of China in the new constitution of 1948

Some of these technologies include speech recognition software to allow computers to handle first level of customer support, text mining and natural language processing to allow better customer handling, agent training by automatic mining of best practices from past interactions, support automation and many other technologies to improve agent productivity and customer satisfaction.

In February 1918, Huelsenbeck gave his first Dada speech in Berlin, and produced a Dada manifesto later in the year.

* 1906 – Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast ; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

The ancient historian Tacitus describes Domitian's first speech in the Senate as brief and measured, at the same time noting his ability to elude awkward questions.

The first task of deconstruction, starting with philosophy and afterwards in literary and juridical texts, would be to overturn all the binary oppositions of metaphysics ( signifier / signified ; sensible / intelligible ; writing / speech ; passivity / activity ; etc ).

DARPA supported the evolution of the ARPANET ( the first wide-area packet switching network ), Packet Radio Network, Packet Satellite Network and ultimately, the Internet and research in the artificial intelligence fields of speech recognition and signal processing, including parts of Shakey the robot.