In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.

There is a second feature of the influences of literature, good literature, on emotional life which may have some special value for our time.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

And the second requirement for convincing people without their knowledge is artistic talent to prepare the words and pictures which persuade by using the principles which the scientists have discovered.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

The second mistake is Tibet.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.

A second and also good practice is to shear off the tops, leaving an inch high stub with just a leaf or two on each branch.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.

The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

De Revolutionibus is not just a collection of facts and techniques.

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

An analysis of the fiscal tax collection year calendars throughout the state indicates that transition may not be as painful as is commonly thought.

The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.

At some cities, this pick-up and delivery service is without additional charge, and, if you are budget-wise, when you are planning your itinerary, you will take advantage of these free delivery and collection stations in major cities within the larger European countries.

There is the free intra-city `` rent it here, leave it there '' service, as an example, the free delivery and collection at the airport, dockside or your hotel, luggage racks, touring documents and information and other similar services.

In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.

This is a delightfully motley collection.

It is a collection with a custom-design look, offering simplicity with warmth, variety and vitality.

The Drexel collection, called Composite, to be shown by Titche's offers a realistic approach to decorating, a mature modern that is a variation of many designs.

Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.

Nassau is currently building a central collection of reference materials in its Hempstead headquarters, which will reach its goal of 100,000 volumes by 1965.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

Basic reference tools are the backbone of the collection, but there is also specialization in science and technology, an indicated weakness in local libraries.

The entire headquarters collection is available to the patrons of all members on interlibrary loans.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, or simply the mean or average when the context is clear, is the central tendency of a collection of numbers taken as the sum of the numbers divided by the size of the collection.