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was and original
Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.
For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.
If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.
Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.
Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.
He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.
Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.
He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.
This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.
when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal to that of the original serum sample, no complete antibody activity could be detected.
Approximately ten days after the questionnaire was mailed, a follow-up airmail postcard was sent to each of the original names.
In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.
Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.
`` To be creative is to have the ability to cause to exist -- to produce where nothing was before -- to bring forth an original production of human intelligence or power ''.
What remained lacked the original verve but it was at least dignified, as befitting the tragic circumstances.

was and basis
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
It was therefore not until the publication of J.H. Round's `` The Settlement Of The South And East Saxons '', and W.H. Stevenson's `` Dr. Guest And The English Conquest Of South Britain '', that a scientific basis for place-name studies was established.
On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.
In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
It was organizationally the responsibility of the Department of Public Works and was financed on a rotary fund basis with each agency of government contributing to the pool's operation.
Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.
As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.
Rather the monthly total consumption was divided and charged on the basis of number of rooms and persons in the family.
This action was rationalized on the basis of a small survey which indicated that a high percentage of married freshmen women on our campus never become sophomores.
Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.
Indeed their achievement scores were somewhat better on an absolute basis although the difference was not significant.
The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.
The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.
On these pillars rested that solid basis for life and thought which was soon to be manifested in the remarkably unlimited ken of the Iliad.
This was equivalent to 240 mg/lBOD on a 24-hr. basis.
Needless to say, the organic load was very low on a volumetric basis, but was 270 lb BOD/day/acre on a surface loading basis.

was and salsa
In Mexico, Nachos are considered an American dish that was falsely inspired by the Mexican totopo, a type of toasted flatbread sometimes used for dipping in salsa.
A peculiar duty of the Vestals was the preparation and conservation of the sacred salamoia muries used for the savouring of the mola salsa, a salted flour mixture to be sprinkled on sacrificial victims ( hence the Latin verb immolare, " to put on the mola, to sacrifice ").
Modern salsa ( as it became known worldwide ) was forged in the pan-Latin melting pot of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
According to this version, the sauce was originally known as " salsa mahonesa " in Spanish and " maonesa " in Catalan ( as it is still known in Menorca ), later becoming mayonnaise as it was popularized by the French.
Latin jazz, which was also developed in New York City, has had a significant influence on salsa arrangers, piano guajeos, and instrumental soloists.
World music author Sue Steward claims salsa was originally used in music as a " cry of appreciation for a particularly piquant or flashy solo ".
" In 1973, I hosted the television show Salsa which was the first reference to this particular music as salsa.
I was using term salsa, but the music wasn't defined by that.
Ironically, Cuban-based music was promoted more effectively worldwide in the 1970s and 1980s by the salsa industry, than by Cuba.
Graciela on claves and her brother Machito on maraca s ; Machito said that salsa was much like what he had been playing from the 1940s.
Several New York musicians who had already been performing Cuban dance music for decades when salsa was popularized initially scoffed at the term.
For example, Cuban-born Machito declared: " There's nothing new about salsa, it is just the same old music that was played in Cuba for over fifty years.
The concept of salsa music which began as a marketing ploy created by Izzy Sanabria was successfully exploited by Fania Records, then eventually took on a life of its own, organically evolving into an authentic pan-Latin American cultural identity.
" This pan-Latino association of salsa stems from what Felix Padilla labels a ' Latinizing ' process that occurred in the 1960s and was consciously marketed by Fania Records: ' To Fania, the Latinizing of salsa came to mean homogenizing the product, presenting an all-embracing Pan-American or Latino sound with which the people from all of Latin America and Spanish-speaking communities in the United States could identity and purchase.
For example, Johnny Pacheco has consistently articulated a vision of salsa as a broad, multi-ethnic movement: " Salsa was, and still is, a Caribbean musical movement.
Today, competing nationalities claim ownership of the music, as there are musicians in New York City, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Venezuela, who claim salsa was invented in their country.
Homegrown salsa on the other hand, was embraced.
For a time the Cuban state media officially claimed that the term salsa music was a euphemism for authentic Cuban music stolen by American imperialists, though the media has since abandoned this theory.
Mayra Martinez, a Cuban musicologist, writes that " the term salsa was used to obscure the Cuban base, the music's history or part of its history in Cuba.
And salsa was a way to do this so that Jerry Masucci, Fania and other record companies, like CBS, could have a hegemony on the music and keep the Cuban musicians from spreading their music abroad.
" Izzy Sanabria responds that Martinez was likely giving an accurate Cuban viewpoint, " but salsa was not planned that way.
By the time salsa emerged in the 1970s, there was already a second generation of clave savvy composers and arrangers working in New York.

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