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" It was derived from the eighth verse of the 72nd Psalm, and was intended to denote the breadth of the country from " sea to sea ," not " domination " as was sometimes later claimed.
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But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.
The results of present observations of the thermal radio emission of the moon are consistent with the very low thermal conductivity of the surface layer which was derived from the variation in the infrared emission during eclipses ( e.g., Garstung, 1958 ).
The value derived was 16 microseconds.
this mass threshold was derived from the detector calibration and an assumed impact velocity of Af.
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 ).
The second list was derived from a group of approximately 8,000 names supplied to the research team by the Aerospace Industries Association.
Its power unit, however, was derived from the reactor of the more modern American nuclear submarine Skipjack.
The Ch'an ( Zen ) sect may have derived its metaphysic from Mahayana, but its psychology was pure early Taoist.
Its citizens spoke all of the world's surviving tongues, plus a new one called Lingo, a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet of paper.
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.
* That the discipline grew out of colonialism, perhaps was in league with it, and derived some of its key notions from it, consciously or not.
The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".
The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being the Latin alphabet ( which was derived from the Greek ).
The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century.
The size of the unit was chosen so that the units derived from it in the MKSA system would be conveniently sized.
The most widely accepted one suggests it was derived from the Sinhala henakandaya since the phonetic sounds are very similar.
It is unclear whether the Arabic abjad was derived from Nabatean or Syriac.
It was derived from the Phoenician letter Aleph Aleph.
Alpha was derived from aleph, which in Phoenician means " ox ".
The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.
It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.
An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.
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