Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.

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.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.

the days seemed short, perhaps because his routine was, each day, almost the same.

He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.

Life was a short play of tenebrous shadows.

His steps were short and stiff, and, with his head thrown back, his progress was a supercilious strut.

In the cruel clearness of her memory the boy remained unchanged, quick with the delight of laughter, and the pain with which she recalled that short destroyed childhood was still unendurable to her.

Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

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.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

He devised a detonating fuse in which a short wire was caused to glow by an electric current.

There was a short pause for reflection.

One growth center in a short bone -- distal phalanx of the second finger -- was chosen as an example for discussion here, primarily because epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion, the maturity indicator for Completion in long and short bones, occurs in this center for girls near the menarche and for boys near their comparable pubescent stage.

In short, scientific sampling was introduced in place of subjective sampling.

Although short lived the MLF was representative of London's Ladbroke Grove centered alternative and literary community of the period.

They also created a short film for the Wachowski brothers that was centered in the world of The Matrix, titled the Final Flight of the Osiris.

The park is centered around a road truck ( Rail Wheels ) on top of a short slab of railroad track.

The community is centered on a lake of the same name, which is formed by a dam on a short tributary of the nearby Rivanna River.

In his adolescence, he visited large cities in countries such as The Netherlands and France, and lived for a short period of time in Rome ; and for a longer period of time in Oxford, England ( 1706 – 1708 ), which was rare during that time as intellectual life was centered in continental Europe.

Mass estimates have centered around 2. 5 tonnes ( 2. 75 short tons ) but have ranged between 1. 8 and 3. 8 tonnes ( 2. 0 and 4. 1 short tons ).

Also in 2001, Cartoon Network animation documentary show ToonHeads had a one-hour special centered on World War II-era cartoons and two World War II-era Bugs Bunny shorts Herr Meets Hare shown in full and Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips shown in clips in a short montage about the depictions of Japanese people at the time were shown.

Despite its short coastline on Tokyo Bay, the economy of Kimitsu is centered around its coastal belt of heavy industries, primarily by the large-scale steelworks of Nippon Steel Kimitsu Works.

Ritter will be seen alongside Kate French in the upcoming short film, Atlantis, a romance film centered around two strangers who fall in love during the preparation for the final launch of the NASA space shuttle Atlantis.

The bill was short on the number of changes Pownall sought to achieve a more flexible and less costly organization, and its terms also centered more power over the militia in the hands of local officials ( at the governor's expense ).

New York Town was a critical success, drawing parallels to Joyce's Dubliners due to it being a series of short, unrelated stories centered around New York City, and Kirwan was praised for painting a picture of the everyday life of New Yorkers, although the appearance of guest singers such as David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Christine Ohlman was noted for highlighting the weakness in Kirwan's own voice.

* A 2007 CG animated short film called " After Oz ", produced by the film students at Vancouver Film School, centered on a stylized version of the Tin Man, after he has received his heart from Oz.

The image at the transverse focus is a short line, oriented in the direction of the sagittal plane ; images of circles centered on the optic axis, or lines tangential to such circles, will be sharp in this plane.

Originally named the National Accelerator Laboratory, it was renamed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ( Fermilab for short ) in 1974, after famed Italian physicist Enrico Fermi ; the facility centered around a four-mile circumference, 400 GeV accelerator.

In March 2012, it was announced that DNA testing had confirmed a new species of leopard frog had been found whose habitat was centered near New York's Yankee Stadium and included northern New Jersey, southeastern mainland New York, and Staten Island ; the new still unnamed species is part of a cryptic species complex that was first distinguished by its short, repetitive croak, distinct from the " long snore " or " rapid chuckle " of other area leopard frog species.

The Gold offense was centered around a short passing game featuring running backs Sydney and Vincent White making 44 and 37 receptions respectively to finish 1-2 in team receiving.

During the early 1990s Hamilton wrote several short stories centered around the affinity technology-and they became the inspiration to write Night's Dawn.

* " 8 " a series of eight short films centered around the eight Millennium Development Goals

The short centered around a middle-aged man named Larry and his anthropomorphic dog Steve.

Later, for a short time period, in Western sources Cumania also referred to the area in eastern Wallachia and southern Ukraine ( centered on the lowlands of Budjak and the Bărăgan Plain ), referring to the area where the first contact between the Cumans and the Western Christians took place, and where, later, the Cumans would accept Roman Catholicism.

The film was split into a series of short stories, all centered around the lead character, Jerome Rude, played by Flynn.

* Comic artist and writer Kaori Yuki wrote a short story centered around the poem using characters from her series God Child, which was published at the end of book five.

The Dutch roll mode can be excited by any use of aileron or rudder, but for flight test purposes it is usually excited with a rudder singlet ( short, sharp motions of the rudder to a specified angle, and then back to the centered position ) or doublet ( a pair of such motions in opposite directions ).