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Then, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
only -- it did not.
Not only did the ideal entrepreneur not produce the greatest good for the greatest number, he ended by destroying himself, by giving birth to monopoly capitalism.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.
This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.
Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.
He could only watch with a sort of gentle dismay while his body did these quick, appalling, and efficient things.
She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.
The window looked out on the Place Redoute -- it was the only window of the apartment that did.
He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.
Unstained sections mounted in buffered glycerine or sections treated only with NS or Af did not show such green fluorescence.
While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.
He did not really listen to others, had little interest in their ideas, and wanted to have his own way -- which was the only right way.
There is only one sense in which it is valid to talk about Hardy's development: he did develop toward a more consistent and more effective control of that tone which we recognize as uniquely his.
Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.
wetting a wart with this saliva on wakening the first thing in the morning was supposed to cause it to disappear after only a few treatments, and strangely enough many warts did just that.
The actions of Bridget should be examined, since she was there and opportunity did exist, if only to establish her innocence.
Since the A.L.A.M. holdings embraced only about twenty-five per cent of motor vehicle patents, the denial of rights to independent companies did not retard technical progress in unlicensed sectors of the industry.
The moment the sea closed over Nick, some atavistic sense warned him that he would survive in this alien element only if he did not panic.

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Argo Navis is the only one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy that is no longer officially recognised as a constellation.
There is only limited information on indigenous Greek constellations.
It is the second smallest of the modern constellations ( after Crux ), spanning only 72 square degrees.
It should also be noted that Flamsteed's catalogue covered only the stars visible from Great Britain, and therefore stars of the far southern constellations have no Flamsteed numbers.
Its list of forty-eight constellations is ancestral to the modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole sky ( only the sky Hipparchus could see ).
Although Sagitta is an ancient constellation, it has no star brighter than 3rd magnitude and has the third-smallest area of all constellations ( only Equuleus and Crux are smaller ).
From their existing records, it is known that the ancient Egyptians recorded the names of only a few identifiable constellations and a list of thirty-six decans that were used as a star clock.
What follows is a list of the twelve signs of the modern zodiac ( with the ecliptic longitudes of their first points ), where 0 ° Aries is understood as the vernal equinox, with their Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Babylonian names ( but note that the Sanskrit and the Babylonian name equivalents denote the constellations only, not the tropical zodiac signs ).
Low Earth orbiting satellites ( LEOs ) are often deployed in satellite constellations, because the coverage area provided by a single LEO satellite only covers a small area that moves as the satellite travels at the high angular velocity needed to maintain its orbit.
Cancer is relatively small among the constellations with an area of only 505 square degrees and its stars are rather faint.
Nick Mamatas's 2004 novel Move Under Ground, set in a world where Cthulhu has taken power and only the Beats oppose him, the power of the Great Old Ones twists the constellations into new shapes, using them as vessels for his surrogates ; among them, Jack Kerouac observes the " red stars of Azathoth ".
It was one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, who only counted 7 stars, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.
Of the latter constellations, only Camelopardalis and Monoceros are still found on modern star charts, and recognized by the IAU.
Apian is also remembered for publishing the only known depiction of the Bedouin constellations in 1533.
At first, only the shapes of the patterns were defined, and the names and numbers of constellations varied from one star map to another.
Although there are only 88 IAU constellations, the sky is actually divided into 89 irregularly shaped boxes as the constellation Serpens is split into two separate sections, Serpens Caput ( the snake's head ) to the west and Serpens Cauda ( the snake's tail ) to the east.
The Joker area is also frequently referred to as a galaxy, or even a constellation, although these descriptions are even less appropriate, constellations only being visible as such when observed from a distance.
As constellations were considered to be composed only of the stars that constituted the figure, it was always possible to use the leftover, non-figure (" amorphic ") stars to create and squeeze in a new grouping among the established constellations.
Until the middle of the first millennium BC, the Zodiac consisted of only eleven constellations.
Note that this is an astronomical description of the precessional movement and the vernal equinox position in a given constellation may not imply the astrological meaning of an Age carrying the same name, as they ( ages and constellations ) only have an exact alignment in the " first point of Aries ", meaning once in each ca.
However, because the globe contains no actual stars, and because the circles on the globe are drawn inexactly and ambiguously by a sculptor copying the Hellenistic model rather than by a modern astronomer, the dating of the globe is still uncertain and its source or sources remain controversial ; Schaefer's conclusions have been strongly contested ( e. g., Dennis Duke, Journal for the History of Astronomy, February, 2006 ) most particularly on the ground that regardless of the globe's date the constellations on it show large disagreements with the only existing work by Hipparchus.

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