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It is any system or substance that contains energy for conversion as usable energy later or somewhere else.
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That, at any rate, is what happens at the Khaju bridge.
The sequence of movements in a Cunningham dance is unlike any sequence to be seen in life.
The sequence is determined by chance, and Mr. Cunningham makes use of any one of several chance devices.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.
As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.
it is a spectacle absolutely painful, an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit, untouched by any spirit other than abasement and humiliation.
Piepsam is not, certainly, religious in any conventional sense.
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
In this respect experience is broader and full of a richer variety of potential meanings than the mind of man or any of his arts or culture are capable of making clear and distinct.
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
The monitoring is the highest and most restrictive of any organization in existence.
That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.
In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.
So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.
Hence, the only defensible procedure is to repress any and every notion, unless it gives evidence that it is perfectly safe.
Assuredly in our political campaigns there is freedom to think, to examine any and all issues, and to speak without restraint.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.
The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.
But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.
In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;
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However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.
Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.
Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.
For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.
The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
It is an organized system of these things.
This is necessary for a sounder collective defense system.
It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.
Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.
An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals.
The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do.
but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.
It is the consequence of the system of ideas that constitutes the frame of our international -- and in some degree our domestic -- policy.
The system is composed of three credit services, Federal Land Banks and National Farm Loan Associations, Federal Intermediate ( short-term ) Credit Banks, and Banks for Cooperatives.
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This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.
An existentialist is a man who perceives himself only as `` esse '', as existence without substance.
The detergent active is that substance which primarily acts to remove greasy soils.
Obviously, a substance which is permanently or temporarily sorbed on the surface in place of the soil will tend to accelerate this process and effectively push off the greasy soil.
Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.
The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.
The first is that enforcement of national law in state litigation raises in reverse the old diversity puzzle of the relation of procedure to substance.
Cholesterol, the cornerstone of Dr. Keys's theory, is a mysterious yellowish, waxy substance, chemically a crystalline alcohol.
An acid ( from the Latin acidus / acēre meaning sour ) is a substance which reacts with a base.
The Brønsted-Lowry definition is an expansion: an acid is a substance which can act as a proton donor.
An Arrhenius acid is a substance that increases the concentration of the hydronium ion, H < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sup >+</ sup >, when dissolved in water.
Asphalt or or, also known as bitumen, is the sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits ; it is a substance classed as a pitch.
A less confrontational vision of scientific discovery is proposed by Adloff He suggests that hindsight criticism of the early publications should be mitigated by the nascent state of radiochemistry, highlights the prudence of Debierne's claims in the original papers, and notes that nobody can contend that Debierne's substance did not contain actinium.
Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it.
In the panentheistic model of process philosophy and theology the writers Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne rejected that the universe was made of substance, instead reality is composed of living experiences ( occasions of experience ).
When a molten metal is mixed with another substance, there are two mechanisms that can cause an alloy to form, called atom exchange and the interstitial mechanism.
The Nicene Creed's central term, used to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son, is Homoousios (), or Consubstantiality, meaning " of the same substance " or " of one being ".
Between the layers of tiles is a clingy protein substance.
Certain specific conditions are excluded as disabilities, such as current substance abuse and visual impairment that is correctable by prescription lenses.
Ambergris is the waxy aromatic substance created in the intestines of sperm whales and was used in making perfumes both in ancient times as well as modern.
Adiabatic cooling occurs when the pressure of a substance is decreased as it does work on its surroundings.
The first deposit on the wall of a cavity, forming the " skin " of the agate, is generally a dark greenish mineral substance, like celadonite, delessite or " green earth ", which are rich in iron probably derived from the decomposition of the augite in the enclosing volcanic rock.
The latter is in substance a more didactic repetition of the former.
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