On land, " downwind " is often used to refer to a situation where a point source of air pollution or a scent moves from a point upwind ; from the direction of the wind to the point of the observer.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

On the other hand, in a more favorable vein, general business activity should receive some stimulus from rising Federal spending, and the reduction in business inventories has probably run a good part of its course.

Of course On Thursday, Haney mailed the monthly check for separate maintenance to his wife Lolly, and wished the stranger could do something about her

On this day the wind had switched 180-degrees from the northwest to the southeast, and nearly every shot on the course was different from the previous few days.

On Nov. 11, 12, racers will drive their flying shingles in 5-mile laps over its 500-mile speedboat course.

On launch the rocket engine's first chamber developing thrust would power the missile along a predetermined course to the target at around Mach 1. 5.

On 28 June, the other member countries expelled Yugoslavia, citing " nationalist elements " that had " managed in the course of the past five or six months to reach a dominant position in the leadership " of the CPY.

On the further course towards the Amazon, the mean discharge of the Madeira increases up to.

On sea the yellow band in her flag was of course white.

In addition, Jews from as far as France, Austria and Germany were brought to Kaunas during the course of Nazi occupation and executed in the Ninth Fort. On 1943 the Germans operated special Jewish squads to open the massgraves and burn the remaining corpses.

On the upper course, sudden floods may raise the water level by as much as five meters in twenty-four hours ; west of Encarnación, however, the rocks of the riverbed sometimes come within one meter of the surface during winter and effectively sever communication between the upper river and Buenos Aires.

On 1 November 1950, Pius XII defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, namely that she " having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.

On straighter courses, the strokesman may steer, since he can point the stern of the boat at some landmark at the start of the course.

On September 23, 1912, the anniversary of William Marsh Rice's murder, the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art began course work.

Over the course of its career, the band has sold more than 40 million records and has charted thirteen Top 40 hits, including the number ones " Keep On Loving You " and " Can't Fight This Feeling ".

In his 1870 essay " On the Graphical Representation of Supply and Demand ", Fleeming Jenkin in the course of " introduc the diagrammatic method into the English economic literature " published the first drawing of supply and demand curves therein, including comparative statics from a shift of supply or demand and application to the labor market.

* On a magnetic course of 0-179 degrees shall fly at an odd thousand ft MSL altitude + 500 feet ( e. g. 3, 500, 5, 500, or 7, 500 ft ); or

* On a magnetic course of 180-359 degrees shall fly at an even thousand ft MSL altitude + 500 feet ( e. g. 4, 500, 6, 500, or 8, 500 ft ).

The first of the papers published (" On Very Rapid Electric Oscillations ") gives, generally in the actual order of time, the course of the investigation as far as it was carried out up to the end of the year 1886 and the beginning of 1887.

On June 7, 1890, it " successfully spent an hour submerged at a depth of 10 meters, following a set course of three and a half miles ".

# Janez Strnad, Fizika iz Karlsruheja: O novostih v poučevanju fizike ( The Karlsruhe physics course: On new approaches in physics teaching ), ( Obzornik mat, fiz.

He took the same course soon afterwards with four other papers, two of which ( On the quantity of acids, bases and salts in different varieties of salts and On a new and easy method of analysing sugar ) contain his discovery, regarded by him as second in importance only to the atomic theory, that certain anhydrates, when dissolved in water, cause no increase in its volume, his inference being that the salt enters into the pores of the water.

On the same English Literature course was Robert Graves, and the two were close friends during their time at Oxford together, but Blunden found university life unsatisfactory and left in 1920 to take up a literary career, at first acting as assistant to Middleton Murry on the Athenaeum magazine.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

On unoccupied roadway the bottle shattered into a small amber flash.

On Christmas Eve, students brought out two small Christmas trees which I placed on either side of the tent.

On a misty Sunday morning last month, a small band of militant anti-Communists called the Minutemen held maneuvers in a foggy field about fifteen miles east of here.

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

On February 6, 1862, Union Navy gunboats quickly reduced the defenses of ill-sited Fort Henry, inflicting 21 casualties on the small remaining Confederate force.

* On the inner façades of the small arches are engraved the names of the military leaders of the French Revolution and Empire.

On March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.

On personal computers and small workstations, the CPU is housed in a single silicon chip called a microprocessor.

On land, mammals were a small and still relatively minor component of the fauna.

On Earth, small amounts of new atoms are naturally produced in nucleogenic reactions, or in cosmogenic processes, such as cosmic ray spallation.

On July 2, 2011, an F-15E intercepted a small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David, where President Obama was in residence.

On July 10, 2011, an F-15 Intercepted another small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David where President Barack Obama was in residence, totalling the number of interceptions over the July 9 weekend at 3 planes.

On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

On the other hand, if the condition number is small then the error in x will not be much bigger than the error in b.

On cleavage by trypsin into two parts that are still connected via an S-S bond, cleaved chymotrypsinogen molecules can activate each other by removing two small peptides in a trans-proteolysis.

On June 13, 2008, a small majority of members of the House of Ariki attempted a coup, claiming to dissolve the elected government and to take control of the country's leadership.

On this issue, Trotsky said, " as this regime becomes consolidated all affairs are concentrated in the hands of a small group, sometimes only of a secretary who appoints, removes, gives the instructions, inflicts the penalties, etc.

On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.

On the other hand, nominal damages are very small damages awarded to show that the loss or harm suffered was technical rather than actual.

On 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin.

On the northeast corner of High Street and Court Street the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, now the U. S. National Geodetic Survey, has placed a small medallion into a granite block showing an elevation of.

On 20 April 1899 Beatty was appointed executive officer of the small battleship HMS Barfleur, flagship of the China Station, Captain Stanley Colville under Rear-Admiral James Bruce.