He even hunted elephant, although the Asian elephant is not quite as ferocious as his African cousin.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

Hieronymus, like Piepsam, makes his protest quite in vain, and his rejection, though not fatal, is ridiculous and humiliating ; ;

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

Yet the attitude that the fate of the Presidency demands in such a situation is quite distinct from the simple courage that can proceed with battles to be fought, regardless of the consequences.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

If Krutch is correct, tragedy may have quite the opposite effect.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

Some accounts are quite lengthy but Florida's is the shortest of all, requiring only four paragraphs.

This mother is quite correct.

It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war.

A special grandstand, protected by awnings from the midsummer sun of Illinois, should be erected for occupancy by honored guests, who should include the ambassadors of all those new African nations as yet not quite convinced that the United States is thoroughly civilized.

Four billion dollars of the spending increase is for defense, an expenditure necessitated by the penny-wise policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite apart from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.

As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

What is the common man's complaint??

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.

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.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

British common sense is proverbial.

Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is the most widely played casino banking game in the world.

The eye in the sky usually makes a video recording of the table, which helps in resolving disputes and identifying dealer mistakes, and is also used to protect the casino against dealers who steal chips or players who cheat.

The Las Vegas Strip is renowned for its high concentration of casino resort hotels.

In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities.

There is much debate over whether or not the social and economic consequences of casino gambling outweigh the initial revenue that may be generated.

In military usage in Spanish and German, a casino or kasino is an officers ' mess ; curiously, in Italian-the source-language of the word-a " casino " is either a brothel, a mess, or a noisy environment, while a gaming house is called a " casinò ".

Casinos in the USA say that a player staking money won from the casino is playing with house money.

While it is possible through skillful play to minimize the house advantage, it is extremely rare that a player has sufficient skill to completely eliminate his inherent long-term disadvantage ( the house edge ( HE ) or house vigorish ) in a casino game.

The player's disadvantage is a result of the casino not paying winning wagers according to the game's " true odds ", which are the payouts that would be expected considering the odds of a wager either winning or losing.

The house edge or vigorish is defined as the casino profit expressed as a percentage of the player's original bet.

Of course, it is not possible for the casino to win exactly 53 cents ; this figure is the average casino profit from each player if it had millions of players each betting 10 rounds at 1 unit per round.

The luck factor in a casino game is quantified using standard deviations ( SD ).

It is important for a casino to know both the house edge and variance for all of their games.

Among Black players, the name " craps " refers primarily to the casino version of the game that is played on a marked felt surface on a table.

Bank craps is a game played by multiple players betting against a casino.

A casino craps table is run by up to four casino employees: a boxman who guards the chips, supervises the dealers and handles " coloring out " players ( exchanging small chip denominations for larger denominations in order to preserve the chips at a table ); two base dealers who stand to either side of the boxman and collect and pay bets ; and a stickman who stands directly across the table from the boxman, takes bets in the center of the table ( hard ways, yo, craps, horn, etc.