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One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.
One could see this chemical determinant as in itself a miracle.
One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
One could shave in the reflection of its French-polished panels, and its axles were greased like those of roulette wheels.
One could also add to these analogies that steel loses its magnetism by heat, which proves that steel becomes a better conductor through a rise in temperature, just as electrical bodies do.
One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ''.
One who could be linked to anti-Semitism only by overcoming his objections is scarcely a good specimen of the Jew-baiter throughout the ages.
One wrote: `` ( I am so hungry ) I could eat a rider off his horse & snap at the stirups ''.
One man, badly burned about the face and eyes by an arc welding torch, was blinded and could not find a doctor at the time.
One of the A.L.A.M. lawyers observed that if the Selden case had been tried under this simplified procedure, the testimony which filled more than a score of volumes, `` at a minimum cost of $1 a page for publication alone, could have been contained in one volume ''.
One of the most wholesome things you could schedule in your church would thus be a group confessional where people could admit of their inner tensions ''.
One frequently has the feeling that the order of their movement combinations could be transposed without notable loss of effect, there is too little suggestion of organic relationship and development.
One could hardly blame Newbold Morris, the Parks Commissioner, for devoting so much grateful mention to the department's technicians who at short notice provided the stage with its rising platforms, its balcony, its generous wings and even its impressive trapdoors for the use of the villains.
One could say " I bought herbs from the apothecary ".
One argument given in favor of using the axiom of choice is that it is convenient to use it because it allows one to prove some simplifying propositions that otherwise could not be proved.
One could say, " The Moon's diameter subtends an angle of half a degree.
One could interpret this passage as being another example of the mainstream Christian belief in a general resurrection ( both for those in heaven and for those in hell ).
One could assume the new term was coined and adopted by Athenian democrats.
One reason that financial officials were elected was that any money embezzled could be recovered from their estates ; election in general strongly favoured the rich, but in this case wealth was virtually a prerequisite.
" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.
One could " hotkey " from one operating system to the next using the Alt-Tab key combination.
One example which could have been overlooked without historical records is the Mayan interest in the planet Venus.
( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

One and hear
One can make them say the same thing only by not listening to them very carefully and hearing only what one wants to hear.
One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.
One source for this was when, as a very young boy, he would hear his father, grandfather, and cowboys give out loud cries when the music moved them.
One member of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights commented on the Americas Watch report and its chief investigator Juan Mendez: " The Sandinistas are laying the groundwork for a totalitarian society here and yet all Mendez wanted to hear about were abuses by the contras.
One of them said that all the women in the empire would hear that " The King Xerxes commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
" He did not have much time for Kurtz: " One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, ' I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.
One of the common reasons the Supreme Court grants certiorari ( that is, they agree to hear a case ) is if there is a conflict among the circuit courts as to the meaning of a federal law.
One research study has shown that the majority of people who hear voices are not in need of psychiatric help.
Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel!
One of the issues with using this type of technology was that the users listening on an idled channel can sometimes hear the conversation that has been switched onto it.
One would just want to hear him talk, because things he would say, you ’ d never heard before ...
One can also hear some Finnish in The Phantom Menace.
It is a central theme and framing device of the collection of stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, wherein the queen Scheherazade, who is facing a morning execution on the orders of her husband, King Shahryar, devises the solution of telling him a story but leaving it at a cliffhanger, thus forcing the king to postpone her execution to hear the rest of the tale.
One who is deaf cannot hear music.
One can often hear the signals being modulated on the infrared carrier by operating a remote control in very close proximity to an AM radio not tuned to a station.
One can hear recordings of contemporary vocalists singing the doina, including Michael Alpert and Elizabeth Schwartz.
* One must hear the gospel / word ( Rom.
One in the afternoon or four in the morning, it made no difference ... I can still hear the whistle — two toots for French's, three for Van Camp's — and she and Chizu would be out of bed in the middle of the night, heading for the cannery.
Having just completed a successful rescue mission in a building protected by heavily armed guards and agents, a feat never before achieved, Morpheus takes this as evidence confirming that Neo is indeed The One, dismissing the Oracle's words by saying that she merely told Neo what he needed to hear.
One can hear the echoes of King Lear as well as the completely different characters of Romeo and Juliet.
One such song by Bolduc is La chanson du bavard, which notably employs an introduction inviting the listener to hear a tale, as is common in broadside ballads.
One paying attention can hear the same laughs and other reactions on shows produced by It's a Laugh.
Chief Bromden, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is believed by all to be deaf and mute, but in fact he can hear and speak ; he does not let anyone know this because, as he grew up, he was not spoken to ( making him " deaf ") and ignored ( making him " mute ").

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