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It is derived from grand hazard, and both can be considered a variant of sic bo, a popular casino game, although chuck-a-luck is more of a carnival game than a true casino game.
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The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.
But the most fundamental objection he has to poets appears in the Tenth Book, and it is derived from his doctrine of ideal forms.
From this belief is derived the practical orientation of our policy on the `` uncommitted '' ( `` neutralist '', `` contested '' ) nations, especially on those whose leaders make the most noise -- Nehru, Tito, Nkrumah, Sukarno, Betancourt, etc..
Several germanium resistors have been thermally cycled from 300 to 4.2 Af and their resistances have been found to be reproducible within 1/3 millidegree when temperatures were derived from a vapor pressure thermometer whose tubing is jacketed through most of the liquid helium.
Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.
The threshold mass is derived from the momentum threshold with the assumption of a mean impact velocity of Af in the U.S. work and Af in the U.S.S.R. work.
The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).
Therefore, N is inversely proportional to the radius cubed and in fair agreement with the inverse 7/2 power derived from 1958 Alpha and 1959 Eta data.
This pleural supply is derived both from hilar and interlobular bronchial artery branches.
This sort of manipulation is especially troublesome in Fromm's work because, although his system is derived largely from certain philosophic convictions, he asserts that it is based on empirical findings drawn both from social science and from his own consulting room.
It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;
From Fig. 6 the relationship between these parameters can readily be derived and the cutting force is Af where **yl is the shear strength of the coating and is a parameter of the coatings material, W is the width of the removed coating and T is its thickness.
It is an experience of a new depth of community derived from an awareness of the corporate indwelling of Christ in His people.
Albedo (), or reflection coefficient, derived from Latin albedo " whiteness " ( or reflected sunlight ), in turn from albus " white ", is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface.
The order of the books ( or the teachings from which they are composed ) is not certain, but this list was derived from analysis of Aristotle's writings.
Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.
The spelling Ἀπόλλων had almost superseded all other forms by the beginning of the common era, but the Doric form Απέλλων is more archaic, derived from an earlier * Απέλjων.
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Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.
The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.
This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
The Bourbon economic philosophy, moreover, is not very different from that of Northern conservatives.
It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.
Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.
To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.
And Bill Wisman, forty-three, a farmer's son from Beallsville, Ohio, is a quiet but impressive man.
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.
Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.
Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;
A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.
The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
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I'm talking about the grand manner of the Liberal -- North and South -- who is not affected personally.
For those who need or want and can afford another car, buying one and driving it on the grand tour, then shipping it home, is one popular plan for a do-it-yourself pilgrimage.
The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the historic axis ( Axe historique ) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre, to the Grande Arche de la Défense.
His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.
If so, this is arguably insider dealing on a grand scale with the benefit of inside specialist knowledge of the business and resources of the firm not shared with outsiders like politicians and members ( and, perhaps, regulators ).
Its style is clearly reflective of the mature Haydn and Mozart, and its instrumentation gave it a weight that had not yet been felt in the grand opera.
The term " conspiracy theory " is used to indicate a narrative genre that includes a broad selection of ( not necessarily related ) arguments for the existence of grand conspiracies.
It is not until the 13th-century French prose romances, including the Lancelot-Grail and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, that Camelot began to supersede Caerleon, and even then, many descriptive details applied to Camelot derive from Geoffrey's earlier grand depiction of the Welsh town.
In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.
In support of this, Erasmus states: “ Anyone who looks closely at the inward nature and essence will find that nobody is further from true wisdom than those people with their grand titles, learned bonnets, splendid sashes and bejeweled rings, who profess to be wisdom ’ s peak ”.
Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).
The chicanes at turns 11 and 12 is considerably more open than that used in the grand prix, using the escape roads.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Most Wanted Terrorists is a list of persons who have been indicted ( formally accused ) by sitting Federal grand juries in the United States district courts, for alleged crimes of terrorism.
Like a grand jury, FISC is not an adversarial court: the federal government is the only party to its proceedings.
* The grand seal of Harvard University inside Memorial Church is flanked by two inward-pointing fasces.
New World's budget breakdown for Godzilla 1985 is as follows: $ 500, 000 to lease the film from Toho, $ 200, 000 for filming the new scenes and other revisions, and $ 2, 500, 000 for prints and advertising, adding up to a grand total of approximately $ 3, 200, 000.
A galaxy with poorly defined arms is sometimes referred to as a flocculent spiral galaxy ; in contrast to the grand design spiral galaxy that has prominent and well-defined spiral arms.
The new particles predicted by models of grand unification cannot be observed directly at particle colliders because their masses are expected to be of the order of the so-called GUT scale, which is predicted to be just a few orders of magnitude below the Planck scale and thus far beyond the reach of currently foreseen collision experiments.
Due to this difficulty, and due to the lack of any observed effect of grand unification so far, there is no generally accepted GUT model.
A grand jury is a type of jury that determines whether a criminal indictment will be issued.
A grand jury is so named because it has a greater number of jurors than a trial jury ( also known as a petit jury, from the French for small ).
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