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is and thought
California is too far, he thought.
My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
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.
That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.
Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.
We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.
Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.
Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.
One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.
but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.
Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.
regarded from the inside, it is the carrying into action of a certain thought The historian's business is to penetrate to the inside of the actions with which he is dealing and reconstruct or rather rethink the thoughts which constituted them.
It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.
Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.
In any case, who ever thought that New York is typical of anything??

is and Bowdoin
There is a Reed House at Bowdoin College.
* Bowdoin College is founded.
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College is named for Peary and fellow Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan.
Together with Bates College and Bowdoin College, Colby is one of three highly selective liberal arts colleges in Maine.
Bowdoin College, founded in 1794, is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick.
As of 2012, Bowdoin is ranked 6th amongst the National Liberal Arts Colleges in the U. S. News Report Ranking and is ranked 14th on Forbes Magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, ahead of the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Dartmouth College, and Cornell University, members of the Ivy League.
While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.
Bowdoin is consistently ranked among the top ten liberal arts colleges in the United States by U. S. News and World Report.
Bowdoin is also part of the SAT optional movement for undergraduate admission.
Bowdoin is a selective liberal arts school, with an acceptance rate of 15 % for the class of 2015.
It is now as hard to get into Bowdoin, says the college's admissions director, as it was to get into Princeton in the 1970s.
Bowdoin is a need-blind and a no-loans institution.
" ( This is corroborated by the Official Preppy Handbook, which in 1980 ranked Bowdoin the number two drinking school in the country, behind Dartmouth.
Historically, Bowdoin is known for the strength of its alumni in many different fields and professions.
Bowdoin's student newspaper, The Bowdoin Orient, is the oldest continuously published college weekly in the United States.
* Fanshawe ( 1828 ) — This Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, published only three years after his graduation from Bowdoin, is set at a small college which bears a striking resemblance to his alma mater.
* M * A * S * H ( 1968, 1970 ) — In both the book and film, the character Hawkeye Pierce is said to have played football at Androscoggin College, a fictional school based on the alma mater of author Richard Hooker, Bowdoin class of 1945.
* Gettysburg ( 1993 ) — In this movie based on The Killer Angels, there is at least one reference to character Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as having had an academic career at Bowdoin, which he put aside to lead the 20th Maine.
" Tony's daughter is ultimately rejected from Bowdoin and ends up attending Columbia.
The film, which has a scene " at Bowdoin ," is based on a novel of the same name.
* Grey's Anatomy ( 2008 ) — Dr. Derek " McDreamy " Shepherd is canonically a Bowdoin grad.
* Mad Men ( 2009 ) — In the season three episode entitled " Wee Small Hours ," a Bowdoin t-shirt is worn by character Suzanne Farrell, even though the episode is set several years before Bowdoin began accepting women.

is and seal
In addition, the motor has the seal of approval of the Underwriters Laboratories, which means it is safe.
A metal case holds an integral primer to initiate the propellant and provides the gas seal to prevent the gases leaking out of the breech, this is called obturation.
He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.
Of these two seals, only the Baltic ringed seal suffers when there is not an adequate ice in the Baltic Sea, as it feeds its young only on ice.
The grey seal is adapted to reproducing also with no ice in the sea.
The fact of having been baptized remains a fact and the Catholic Church holds that baptism marks a person with a lasting seal or character that " is an ontological and permanent bond which is not lost by reason of any act or fact of defection.
Many coin grading services will also seal coins in a labeled, air-tight plastic holder, ensuring the coin is protected from deterioration.
The seal of Christian Science is a cross and crown with the words, " Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons ," and is a registered trademark of the church.
If a compression test does give a low figure, and it has been determined it is not due to intake valve closure / camshaft characteristics, then one can differentiate between the cause being valve / seat seal issues and ring seal by squirting engine oil into the spark plug orifice, in a quantity sufficient to disperse across the piston crown and the circumference of the top ring land, and thereby effect the mentioned seal.
If a second compression test is performed shortly thereafter, and the new reading is much higher, it would be the ring seal that is problematic, whereas if the compression test pressure observed remains low, it is a valve sealing ( or more rarely head gasket, or breakthrough piston or rarer still cylinder wall damage ) issue.
* a running engine is coating the cylinder walls with much more oil than an engine that is being cranked at low RPM, which helps the seal.
The term " deed ", also known in this context as a " specialty ", is common to signed written undertakings not supported by consideration: the seal ( even if not a literal wax seal but only a notional one referred to by the execution formula, " signed, sealed and delivered ", or even merely " executed as a deed ") is deemed to be the consideration necessary to support the obligation.
While Don Quixote is unconscious in his bed, his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber secretly burn most of the books of chivalry, and seal up his library pretending that a magician has carried it off.
Artist and engraver W. Parke Johnson designed this emblem on the basis of the shield that is depicted at the center of the original seal.

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