It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.

However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.

and among works of dystopian science fiction, not all provide intelligent criticism and very few have much merit as literature -- but then real quality has always been scarce in science fiction.

These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.

New Jersey folk need not be told of the builder's march to the sea, for in a single generation he has parceled and populated miles of our shoreline and presses on to develop the few open spaces that remain.

So successful has been this program, worked out by white and Negro civic leaders, that further extensions are expected in the next few months.

In the last few years the telephone company has managed to automate many areas of their service.

He seems to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock.

The outboard engine of today has a phenomenal range of one to 80 horsepower, unheard of a few years ago for a two cycle engine in quantity production.

Fury has made a few mistakes but looks like a wonderful prospect, with his impressive gait and stride which certainly make him cover the ground.

The controversy of the last few years over whether architects or interior designers should plan the interiors of modern buildings has brought clearly into focus one important difference of opinion.

Indeed, it has only been a matter of the last few years that reputable schools of art have granted degrees at all.

In the last few years, the application of chromatographic and other modern techniques to the problem of isolating TSH has led to further purification ( Bates and Condliffe, 1960 ; ;

These are few and seemingly disjointed data, but they illustrate the important fact that fundamental alterations in conditioned reactions occur in a variety of states in which the hypothalamic balance has been altered by physiological experimentation, pharmacological action, or clinical processes.

It has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze one possible force which has not been treated in the literature, but which we believe makes a significant contribution to explaining the wage-price behavior of a few very important industries.

With few exceptions, Congress has not given federal courts exclusive authority to enforce rights arising under federal law.

However, there are relatively few such political constituencies, and, as has been pointed out, there is seldom a clear-cut distinction between the educational interests of one social class and those of another.

The idea has received much attention in philosophy, in literature, and in a few works of general social criticism, such as The Sane Society.

the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.

Straightening one tooth that has come in wrong may take only a few months.

Yet nationalism has lost few of its charms for the historian, writer or man in the street.

Ever since the fire of 1812 destroyed the beautiful furniture assembled by President Thomas Jefferson, the White House has collected a hodgepodge of period pieces, few of them authentic or aesthetic.

In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension.

In this role of father confessor, he has always been most characteristic and most helpful.

Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.

He has given only the one pass in his 27 innings, an unusual characteristic for a southpaw.

The subfamily can be easily recognized by its characteristic smell ( the smell of garlic and onions, singular enough to be called " garlic odour "), by the very soft, fleshy leaves and the umbel-like inflorescence at the end of a stem ( scape ), which has small to medium flowers with a superior ovary.

As such Anglicanism was, from the outset, a movement with an explicitly episcopal polity, a characteristic which has been vital in maintaining the unity of the Communion by conveying the episcopate's role in manifesting visible catholicity and ecumenism.

Like Bernini's characteristic works, they often express the Baroque aesthetic of depicting dramatic attitudes and emotional expressions, yet Algardi's sculpture has a restraining sobriety in contrast to those of his rival.

The human eye has a characteristic called Persistence of vision.

Captopril is also the only ACE inhibitor which is capable of passing through the blood – brain barrier, although the significance of this characteristic has not been shown to have any positive clinical effects.

The defining characteristic of the battle as a concept in Military science has been a dynamic one through the course of military history, changing with the changes in the organisation, employment and technology of military forces.

) has its characteristic place of maximum importance along the ecoclines.

The religious architecture of Angkor has characteristic structures, elements, and motifs, which are identified in the glossary below.

Historians show that every real conspiracy has had at least four characteristic features: groups, not isolated individuals ; illegal or sinister aims, not ones that would benefit society as a whole ; orchestrated acts, not a series of spontaneous and haphazard ones ; and secret planning, not public discussion.

* Electroencephalography — often has characteristic triphasic spikes

The composition of the human body, by contrast, more closely follows the composition of seawater, save that the human body has additional stores of carbon and nitrogen which are necessary to form the proteins and nucleic acids that are characteristic of living organisms.

The convex-hull operator Conv () has the characteristic properties of a hull operator:

Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics, horticulture, and other fields.

Neither amplitude nor frequency of motion has characteristic, directional components as this behaviour provides more scanning of the environment than migration between two distinct points.

The bacterial origin fMLF as a key component of inflammation has characteristic chemoattractant effects in neutrophil granulocytes and monocytes.

This is because if a group has sectional 2-rank at least 5 then MacWilliams showed that its Sylow 2-subgroups are connected, and the balance theorem implies that any simple group with connected Sylow 2-subgroups is either of component type or characteristic 2 type.

If a group has an involution with a 2-component that is a group of Lie type of odd characteristic, the goal is to show that it has a centralizer of involution in " standard form " meaning that a centralizer of involution has a component that is of Lie type in odd characteristic and also has a centralizer of 2-rank 1.