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Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.
They recommended, also, that `` at a fixed hour, let the entire family be assembled for night prayers, followed by a short reading of the Holy Scriptures ''.
This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.
Thus, Walsh modified the vertical passing scheme he had learned during his time with the Raiders, designing a horizontal passing system that relied on quick, short throws-often spreading the ball across the entire width of the field.
Seven of the eight scrolls originally contained the entire book of Daniel in the short form as it is in the Masoretic Text, however none have the long form as preserved in the Septuagint.
The reaction speed is increased, with an entire brigade on standby readiness ; the military retains the capability to continually deploy 2, 000 soldiers in international service or 5, 000 over a short time span.
These short ( often one small reel ) films were often simple visual aids and accompaniments to live lectures and speeches, and were carried from city to city, town to town, village to village ( along with the lecturers ) to indoctrinate the entire countryside, even reaching areas where film had not been previously seen.
Grain yields trailed behind those of agriculture in the West ( that can be partly explained by the more challenging climatic conditions, in particular long cold winters and short vegetative period ) compelling almost the entire population to farm.
Observant Jews spend the entire day in the synagogue, sometimes with a short break in the afternoon, reciting prayers from a special holiday prayerbook called a " Machzor ".
The result of the same doctrines in Bohemia – that land but which was richest in ecclesiastical foundations – was that in a short time the entire church estate was taken over and a revolution brought about in the relations of temporal holdings.
After a short time many in the development community seemed to conclude that the entire concept of using IPC as the basis of an operating system was inherently flawed.
A short time later he moved to Audi, and pursued his career through the entire company, up to and including, the Volkswagen Group boards.
During this short interval a supernova can radiate as much energy as the Sun is expected to emit over its entire life span.
This revolt spread to the entire Syrian army ( which, at the time, was swollen with troops raised by the Emperor Caracalla, and not fully loyal to Macrinus ), and eventually they were to win the short struggle that followed by defeating Macrinus at a battle just outside Antioch.
Schoen said, " The entire room was astonished to see this short little man with a big chest walk in and listen to our session.
* " Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis " ( 1976 ) was a short story by science fiction author Kate Wilhelm about a television show in which contestants ( including a B-list actress who is hoping to revitalize her career ) attempt to make their way to a checkpoint after being dropped off in the Alaskan wilderness, while being filmed and broadcast around the clock through an entire weekend.
This is equivalent to a minimum diameter of the entire cosmos of 10 < sup > 26 </ sup > light years ( 100 septillion light years short scale ).
Although these processes are usually not major sources of nuclides, in the cases of the short-lived naturally-occurring nuclides that exhibit half-lives too short to be primordial ( see list of nuclides ), these processes are the entire source of the existing natural supply of the nuclide.
He was the only Australian Prime Minister to be in office during the reigns of three monarchs ( George V, Edward VIII, and George VI ), and the only Australian Prime Minister who was in office continuously throughout a monarch's entire reign ( albeit a very short one, the 11 month-reign of Edward VIII ).
His cautionary fables include " The Beautiful People " ( 1952 ), a futuristic short story about a rebellious adolescent girl who lives in a largely conformist society in which people obligatorily alter their physical appearance ( adapted as an episode of The Twilight Zone: " Number 12 Looks Just Like You "), and " Free Dirt " ( 1955 ), about a frugally gluttonous man who gorges on his entire vegetable harvest, but instead dies from having consumed the magical soil he used to grow it.
In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.
The dam burst, and the entire volume of the lake was released in a very short time, perhaps a few days.
Cops is a 1922 comedy short silent film about a young man ( Buster Keaton ) who accidentally gets on the bad side of the entire Los Angeles Police Department during a parade, and is chased all over town.
The petioles are short, and the leaves which cluster close to the ends of the shoots are pale green and downy with the result that the entire tree has a misty, frosty look.

short and Athenian
The satyr play was a short, lighthearted tailpiece performed after each trilogy of tragedies in Athenian festivals honoring Dionysus.
His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.
Spartan women rarely married before the age of 20, and unlike Athenian women who wore heavy, concealing clothes and were rarely seen outside the house, Spartan women wore short dresses and went where they pleased.
He soon began writing articles, often under the pseudonym Aristides, taking the name of an Athenian statesman and general known as “ the Just .” After his apprenticeship ended, he and a young printer named Isaac Knapp bought their own newspaper, the short lived Free Press.
* Cleisthenes: A conspicuously effete Athenian, he is an inexhaustible butt of jokes featuring in many plays, including a silent role in The Acharnians and a short speaking role in Thesmophoriazusae.
The image shows that the Thracian goddess has been strongly influenced by Athenian conceptions of Artemis: Bendis wears a short chiton like Artemis, but with an Asiatic snug-sleeved undergarment.
Once it became clear, however, that Demosthenes and his men intended to hold the site, the king Agis, who was at the head of an army ravaging Attica, turned for home, cutting his invasion short after only 15 days in Athenian territory.
Critias, an Athenian sophist and politician, was the leader of the Thirty Tyrants who after the Peloponnesian War ruled for a short while over Athens circa 404 BCE.
Some of his reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.
For a short period it was a member of the Athenian confederacy, its apostasy from which is described in a stirring chapter of Thucydides ' history of the Peloponnesian War.

short and fleet
Some of the victorious fleet went in pursuit of him ; but Octavian himself visited Greece and Asia, and spent the winter at Samos ; though he was obliged to go for a short time to Brundisium to settle a mutiny and arrange for assignations of land.
The Battle of Lepanto in 1571 ( which was triggered by the Ottoman capture of Venetian-controlled Cyprus in 1570 ) was another major setback for Ottoman naval supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea, despite the fact that an equally large Ottoman fleet was built in a short time and Tunisia was recovered from Spain in 1574.
By World War II torpedo boats were seriously hampered by higher fleet speeds ; although they still had a speed advantage, they could only catch the larger ships by running at very high speeds over very short distances, as demonstrated in the Channel Dash.
After a short, sharp, fight, most of his fleet was captured, and he himself was taken prisoner.
For a short time it became the capital of a self-governing federation of the Heptanesos (" Seven Islands "), under Ottoman suzerainty ; in 1807 after the Treaty of Tilsit its faction-ridden government was again replaced by a French administration under governor François-Xavier Donzelot, and in 1809 it was besieged in vain by a British fleet, which had taken all the other Ionian islands.
To the surprise of the English admiral, this time decided to deploy Lezo six ships of the line on which it counted so that the English fleet was trapped between a field of short shots and long shots.
The Japanese ships could reach, but the Russian fleet could reach just, only in short bursts.
The battle was overshadowed in its time in England by the defeat of an Anglo-Dutch fleet by the French two days later at the Battle of Beachy Head, a far more serious event in the short term ; only on the continent was the Boyne treated as an important victory.
Nearchus had a place in Alexander ’ s final plans, as he was to be the admiral of the Arabian invasion fleet ; but the plans were cut short by the king ’ s death.
Royal Navy chaplains undertake a 16 week bespoke induction and training course including a short course at Britannia Royal Naval College and specialist fleet time at sea alongside a more experienced chaplain.
Shortly before reaching Sol the little fleet was attacked by an unknown ship ; Captain Burton, commanding the Earthling ship, intercepted the alien ship before it could damage the defenseless Precursor starship, but was killed in the short fight, leaving the genius young man in command.
Unfortunately, many fishing fleet owners objected to gale warnings, requiring that fleets not leave the ports and under this pressure, FitzRoy's system was abandoned for a short time after his death.
The island was for a short time added to the dominions of George III, chiefly by the exertions of the fleet and the co-operation of Paoli.
In a few short months the Japanese defeated China's Beiyang fleet, routed the Chinese armies in Manchuria, and captured Port Arthur and Weihaiwei.
The brig rig was economical of manpower ( important given Britain's chronic shortfall in trained seamen relative to the demands of the wartime fleet ) and when armed with carronades ( 32-pounders in the Cruizers, 18-pounders in the Cherokees ) they had the highest ratio of firepower to tonnage of any ships in the Royal Navy ( albeit within the short range of the carronade ).
Apart from the Il-18D, other aircraft in CSA's fleet included the short range Tupolev Tu-134, the medium-range tri-jet airliner Tu-154, and the long-range jet airliner Ilyushin Il-62.
* 1983: Airbus jets replace Boeings in the short and medium range fleet.
Like all American locomotives produced at the time, the Baldwins had ' short ' lifespans built into them but the NZR were happy to re-boiler almost their whole fleet to give them a longer life of hard work.
Similarly, the new fleet of 86 class locomotives introduced to NSW in 1983 had a relatively short life as the costs of changing locomotives at the extremities of the electrified network, together with the higher charges levied for electricity use, saw diesel-electric locomotives make inroads into the electrified network and the electric locomotive fleet was progressively withdrawn.
His boat, the Marigold, did very well and over a short period the entire fleet ( the first in Scotland ) converted to the seine net.
The Balboa Island community is joined to the mainland by a short two-lane bridge on the northeast of Balboa Island, and a privately operated fleet of three, three-car ferryboats ( Balboa Island Ferry ) which provide access across the harbor to the Balboa Peninsula which lies to the south.
In July 1690, after the French Admiral Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet at the Battle of Beachy Head, the French fleet was anchored in Torbay and some of the galley fleet travelled the short distance up the coast and attacked Teignmouth.

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