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The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.
Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;
The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.
For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.
In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.
Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.
The first part of the new structure -- that for supporting the basic program of vocational rehabilitation services -- is described in this Section.
the college was one of the first to recognize the importance of music not only as a definite part of the curriculum but as a vital adjunct to campus life.
So right away Claude introduced Henri to his famous `` moon '' bench and proceeded to teach him his first Push-Pull Super-Set consisting of the wide-grip Straight-Arm Pullover ( the `` pull '' part of the Push-Pull Super-Set ) which dramatically widens the ribcage and strongly affects the muscles of the upper back and chest and the collar-to-collar Bench Press which specifically works on the chest to build those wide, Reeves-type `` gladiator '' pecs, while stimulating the upper lats and frontal deltoids.
The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.
The first bridge known to have been covered wholly or in part, -- and perhaps the most interesting one, connected Newbury ( now Newburyport ) with Salisbury Point.
Sturdy and strong after more than a century of continuous use, the old covered, wooden bridge that spans the Tygartis Valley River at Philippi will have a distinctive part in the week-long observance of the first land battle of the Civil War at its home site, May 28th to June 3rd.
This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.
The half-intensity diameter of the antenna beam was about 9', and the angle subtended by the moon included the entire main beam and part of the first side lobes.
However, they do demonstrate the presence of large normal pressures in the presence of flat shear fields which were forecast by the theory in the first part of the paper.
We should first recognize our tendency to develop a hierarchy of values, locating brief treatment at the bottom and long-term intensive service at the top, instead of seeing the services as part of a continuum, each important in its own right.
It is the first part of the Regulation that is currently at issue.
The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.
Later the cleaning and restoration were ordered, first of the older part of the frieze, finally of the canopy.
With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.
If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.
Until that first dedication service, he and Lois felt their children were too young to take part in any religious life at home.
Yet adequate compensation -- and particularly merely adequate compensation is no substitute for those intangibles which cause a man to sacrifice part of his earning potential by taking up college teaching in the first place.

first and Hume
In the first section of the Enquiry, Hume provides a rough introduction to philosophy as a whole.
This position is a more refined version of the theorem first discovered by David Hume.
Induction became associated with Hume only in the early twentieth century ; John Maynard Keynes may have been the first to draw the connection.
In it, Hume contends that polytheism, not monotheism, was " the first and most ancient religion of mankind ".
* the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant ( and later, Charles Darwin ), which increased doubt about the first cause argument and the argument from design, turning many ( though not all ) potential deists towards atheism instead
The first botanical observations of the island were made by Hume in 1883, when the coconut plantations had been in operation for a full century.
The first Europeans to encounter the river were Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, who crossed the river where Albury now stands in 1824: Hume named it the Hume River after his father.
ABC, Hume and Papazian realized that for the scene depicting the nuclear blast, they would have to use state-of-the-art special effects and they took the first step by hiring some of the best special effects people in the business to draw up some storyboards for the complicated blast scene.
Hume had studied under Francis Hutcheson and it was he who first introduced a key utilitarian phrase.
It was first sighted by Europeans during an expedition of Hamilton Hume and William Hovell in 1824, when the area, first named " Swampy " was noted that agricultural settlement.
The township is named after the first white settler in the area, Walter Hume, who arrived and built the first house in the 1850s.
Township government was organized in 1860, with the election being held at Hume's store and with Hume being elected the first supervisor.
The first known white settler in the Hume area was Peter Duncan in 1835.
Australia's first pro-voluntary euthanasia billboard, on the Hume Highway in western Sydney ( Australia ) | SydneyIn 2010, Nitschke planned to use billboards in Australia to feature the message " 85 per cent of Australians support voluntary euthanasia but our government won't listen ".
In this period of his life he met and worked with Charlie Hume ( Mason Adams ) for the first time at the San Francisco Call-Bulletin.
Along with Hovell in 1824, Hume was part of an expedition that first took an overland route from Sydney to Port Phillip near the site of present day Melbourne.
There were few opportunities for education in Australia during the first ten years of the nineteenth century, and Hamilton Hume received most of his education from his mother.
David Hume made what he considered to be the first proper attempt at trying to apply Bacon's scientific method to political subjects ( Hume 1896, intro.
At first, Hume used mainly bright colours, but later pieces have used more muted tones.

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