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was and large
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
His hand was large and square and heavily tanned.
in reading, on platforms, even in the large auditorium of the Y.M.H.A., Poetry Center nights, his voice was intimate, thoughtful, and a trifle shy.
Waddell, the newspaperman, was a fellow in his middle forties, with a graying crewcut, heavy-framed glasses, and a large jaw padded with fat.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.
That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.
For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.
Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.
his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.
Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.
It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).
Over the door was a board with large, inept lettering: home sweet home.
Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up at the toes.
The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.
The decision reached in 1938-39 was made after the accumulation of a large amount of data and thorough study thereof.
Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.
The large jar was brushed with Creek-Turn green toner and sponged off.
Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.
The diameter of this bronchial artery was much too large for it to be a mere vasa vasorum ( figs. 16, 23, 24 ).
The intimal surface of the aorta was covered with confluent, yellow-brown, hard, friable plaques along its entire course, and there was a marked narrowing of the orifices of the large major visceral arteries.
The parenchyma was slightly hyperemic in the apex of the left lung, and there were several firm, gray, fibrocalcific nodules measuring as large as 3 mm..
The small and large intestines were filled with gas, and the jejunum was dilated to about 2 times its normal circumference.

was and format
When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.
The standard format was that of speakers making speeches for and against a position followed by a general vote ( usually by show of hands ) of yes or no.
Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.
Tridgell was also a leader in hacking the TiVo to make it work in Australia, which uses the PAL video format.
The distinctive “ double-pull ” format that typifies most of these songs — also at times used, with slight changes, for pumps, windlass, and capstan, too — was a later development that appears to owe much to African-American work songs.
The " open-topped " design format of the Panzerjäger vehicles was succeeded by the Jagdpanzer '(" hunting tanks ") which mounted the gun in true casemate-style superstructures, completely enclosing the crew compartment in armor that would usually be integral to the hull.
The mainstream song " Saved by Love " was a minor hit, receiving airplay on radio stations featuring the newly emerging Adult Contemporary format.
The format was common on NeXT systems and on early Web pages.
DXF was originally introduced in December 1982 as part of AutoCAD 1. 0, and was intended to provide an exact representation of the data in the AutoCAD native file format, DWG ( Drawing ), for which Autodesk for many years did not publish specifications.
This was done to accommodate the new one-game wild-card playoffs .< re > http :// espn. go. com / mlb / story / _ / id / 7942366 / owners-approve-wild-card-winners-hosting-games-1-2-division-series </ ref > Historically, however, MLB has used rarely the 2-3 format in a best-of-5 series ..
The proposed format was three provincial games in Argentina followed by two international tests, followed by three provincial games in Australia followed by three international tests.
The format of the column was a random assortment of small paragraphs which were otherwise unconnected.
It has been awarded eight Pulitzer Prizes in its history, including four for editorial writing and three for photography before it was converted to tabloid format in 1981.
The Herald American was printed in broadsheet format, and failed to target a particular readership ; where the Record American had been a typical city tabloid, the Herald Traveler was a Republican paper.
The format was used in Australia in the form of Friday Night Live from Series 5 until Series 8.
* Microsoft Word 2000 was backward compatible with Word 97 because it could read and write files in Word 97 format, with the understanding that features unique to Word 2000 would not appear in Word 97.
The last book in this format was Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes in 1922, a collection of favourite rhymes.
The film was shot in the anamorphic format with Panavision C-and E-Series lenses.
The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.
As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.
Jimmy Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time was often drawn in the two-panel format as seen in this 1943 example.
Jimmy Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time was often displayed in a two-panel format with the first panel showing some deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior and the second panel revealing the truth of the situation.
A Spanish version, with a similar format and using a slightly revised version of the 1909 Reina-Valera translation, was published in 2009.

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