This word was first used by Robert Blair ( d. 1828 ), professor of practical astronomy at Edinburgh University, to characterize a superior achromatism, and, subsequently, by many writers to denote freedom from spherical aberration.

A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems.

In an attempt to provide a coherent timeline which fit the numerous adventures of Conan penned by Robert E. Howard and later writers, various " Conan chronologies " have been prepared by many people from the 1930s onward.

In more modern times, Piers Anthony's Xanth books, Robert Asprin's MythAdventures of Skeeve and Aahz books, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and Tom Holt's books provide good examples, as do many of the works by Christopher Moore.

Robert McKimson claimed in an interview that many animators but mostly Clampett contributed to the crazy personality of Bugs, while others like Chuck Jones concentrated more on the more calmed down gags.

van Vogt, Jerry Pournelle, Robert Bloch, George Clayton Johnson, and others, as well as many visiting writers and speakers.

To end the opposition from labor unions ( which wanted no training programs started when so many of their men were unemployed ) Roosevelt chose Robert Fechner, vice president of the American Machinists Union, as director of the corps.

Another column reported on the discoveries made by University of Michigan professor Robert Axelrod in his computer tournament pitting many iterated prisoner's dilemma strategies against each other, and a follow-up column discussed a similar tournament that Hofstadter and his graduate student Marek Lugowski organized.

Robert Wise ( Born to Kill, The Set-Up ) and Anthony Mann ( T-Men, Raw Deal ) each made a series of impressive intermediates, many of them noirs, before graduating to steady work on big-budget productions.

His influence can be traced in the works of many directors, including Robert Altman, Ron Howard, Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, John Lasseter, David Lynch, John Milius, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone and François Truffaut

He is given credit for many massive public works programs administered by his powerful Parks Commissioner Robert Moses and employed thousands of voters.

During World War II, he worked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey, and Nevill Mott ; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines, and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against German minesweepers.

Robert was very much responsible for the detailed design of Rocket, although he was in constant postal communication with George, who made many suggestions on the design.

Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ) was a classic Gothic work of the 1880s, seeing many stage adaptations.

At this time he fell in love with a married daughter of King Robert of Naples ( known as Robert the Wise ) and she is immortalized as the character " Fiammetta " in many of Boccaccio's prose romances, particularly Il Filocolo ( 1338 ).

Some of the other famous guests who lived there include: Augustus St. Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Lowell, Horton Foote, Salvador Dalí, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and many others.

His directorial style and the use of natural, conversational dialogue in his films were cited a major influence on many noted filmmakers, including Robert Altman, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino.

Some influence was direct, as he was a friend, inspiration, and correspondent to many of his contemporaries, such as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber.

* The Estoire del Saint Graal, the first part of the Vulgate Cycle ( but written after Lancelot and the Queste ), based on Robert ’ s tale but expanding it greatly with many new details.

Psychologists such as Robert Baker and Graham Wagstaff claim that what we call hypnosis is actually a form of learned social behaviour, a complex hybrid of social compliance, relaxation, and suggestibility that can account for many esoteric behavioural manifestations.

This skepticism is not limited to composers but also to many notable musicologists and critics: Robert Schmitz said " The public, imbued with Wagnerian aesthetics, quickly exchanged study of these works for a rapid and easy label, which if thoughtfully applied to a limited one percent of Debussy's works, might have been ingenious, but which poured on indiscriminately, has resulted for decades in blurred, vague, sloppy, wrongly pedaled, innocuous performances of Debussy's works.

`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

the Rees undoubtedly would try to cut down as many of the animals as possible.

And one had been too many.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

The staircase itself seemed still to be echoing the heavy footfalls of many men.

A good many beef-hungry settlers were accepting the death of William Lewis as proof that the warning notes were not idle threats.

For three straight years, Tom Horn patrolled the southern Wyoming pastures, and how many men he killed after Lewis and Powell ( if he killed Lewis and Powell ) will never be known.

She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.

No matter how many registry rocks they came to on this journey, each one exerted its own appeal.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

As it is in so many affairs of the heart, a man and a woman meet and something clicks.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

She quickly exploited the exalted position she now occupied, by harassing the disorganized males and even putting many of them to death.

`` Perhaps not in so many words '', the German said.

Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.

Nobody knows how many Southerners there are in this category.

And no doubt many people in states like the Carolinas and Georgia, which were among the most Tory in sentiment in the eighteenth century, bitterly regretted the revolt against the Crown.

but many historians maintain that except for Northern meddling it would have ended in states like Virginia years before it did.

their fears now are of miscegenation and Negro political control in many counties.

And therein, I feel, many Northerners delude themselves about the South.