The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.

One approach followed Wilkins in defining the metre as the length of a pendulum with a half-period of one second, a ' seconds pendulum '.

One of the defining classical works of horror, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, is the first fully realized work of science fiction, where the manufacture of the monster is given a rigorous science-fictional grounding.

One of the enduring difficulties with defining social epistemology is defining what knowledge means in this context.

One of the defining features of the Worms series is its light-hearted audio.

One approach to defining it is in terms of objects ' properties and relations.

One of the defining characteristics of Gothic architecture is the pointed or ogival arch.

One of the most interesting features in MAD is the ability to extend the language by redefining existing operators, defining new operators, or defining new data types ( modes ).

One approach to defining the particle size distribution is to use a list of the size of all particles in a sample.

" This statement was strongly criticized by opposition Pan-Blue Coalition parties on Taiwan, which support a One-China Principle, but oppose defining this " One China " as the PRC.

One study focused on terrorism and symbols states: "… Symbolism is important because it plays a part in impelling the terrorist to act and then in defining the targets of their actions.

One of the defining characteristics of natural Everglades ecology is its ability to support itself in a nutrient-poor environment, and the introduction of fertilizers began to alter the plant life in the region.

One of the defining works of American musical minimalism, it is strongly influenced by mathematical composition as well as Hindustani classical music practice.

One of the axioms defining a group is the identity m ( x, i ( x ))

One complication concerning is that its defining equation is not generally solvable.

One of the defining aspects of the kauri trees's unique ecological niche is its relationship with the soil below.

One may generalize this notion by replacing the field of scalars by a commutative ring, and thus defining an algebra over a ring.

One may define a unital zero algebra by taking the direct sum of modules of a field ( or more generally a ring ) k and a k vector space ( or module ) V, and defining the product of two elements of V to be zero.

One of the defining characteristics of members of the paramyxoviridae family is the requirement for a neutral pH for fusogenic activity.

One of the defining features of the local churches is their interpretation of the Bible refers only to churches as being defined by their locality and that the Christians in a city or locality are members of the church in the locality in which they reside.

One of the defining features of the local churches is their adherence to the principle that all Christians in a city or locality are automatically members of the one church in that locality.

(" One approach the Court used to inquire into the lawfulness of state authority was to draw content-based or subject-matter distinctions, thus defining by semantic or formalistic categories those activities that were commerce and those that were not.

One of the central characteristics is that anthropology tends to provide a comparatively more holistic account of phenomena and tends to be highly empirical.

One of the most distinctive characteristics of the Tubulidentata is their teeth.

One of the primary characteristics of this technique is the use of a swivel as follows: the first anchor is set normally, and the vessel drops back to the limit of anchor cable.

One of the most notable characteristics of the modern study of classics is the diversity of the field.

One of the main characteristics of a molecule is its geometry often called its structure.

One of the primary characteristics present in most sharks is the heterocercal tail, which aids in locomotion.

One of major characteristics of the Cucurbitales is the presence of unisexual flowers, mostly pentacyclic, with thick pointed petals ( whenever present ) ( Matthews and Endress, 2004 ).

One of the most notable characteristics of New England ( or British )- heritage Congregationalism has been its consistent leadership role in the formation of " unions " with other churches.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of critical theory, as Adorno and Horkheimer elaborated in their Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1947 ), is a certain ambivalence concerning the ultimate source or foundation of social domination, an ambivalence which gave rise to the “ pessimism ” of the new critical theory over the possibility of human emancipation and freedom.

One of the characteristics of Italian, and variable in Tuscan, is the retention of the-re infinitive ending as in Latin mittere, " send ", which is lost in Corsican, which has mette / metta, " to put.

One of the important characteristics of historical and mythical heroes across the cultures is to be fearless in the face of big and often lethbed

One of the most striking characteristics of German-Nordic heraldry is the treatment of the crest.

One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases.

* Focus One: The examination of the process by which an employee develops innovations and the unique characteristics of an individuals which enables them to be highly innovative.

One of the unique characteristics of the Luftwaffe ( as opposed to other independent air forces ) was the possession of an organic paratrooper force called Fallschirmjäger.

The Platonic Theology is a systematisation of material from Platonic dialogues, showing from them the characteristics of the divine orders, the part of the universe which is closest to the One.

One of the characteristics of artistic research is that it must accept subjectivity as opposed to the classical scientific methods.

One definition describes Eastern Europe as a cultural ( and econo-cultural ) entity: the region lying in Europe with main characteristics consisting in Byzantine, Orthodox and minor and limited Ottoman influences.

One of the main characteristics of this Carnival are its flashy costumes and the loud music played during the celebration.

One of the most distinguishing characteristics of Yankee Stadium was the " facade ", a white frieze that ran along the bleacher billboards and scoreboard.

One of the more notable characteristics of this genus is that members parasitize other Gram-negative bacteria by entering into their periplasmic space and feeding on the biopolymers, e. g. proteins and nucleic acids, of their hosts.

One of the new characteristics that embedded microprocessors and computers brought to HF radio via ALE, was alleviation of the need for the radio operator to constantly monitor and change the radio frequency manually to compensate for ionospheric conditions or interference.

One argument is that gender characteristics are socially constructed and therefore naturally unrelated to biological sex.

One of the characteristics of Metafont is that all of the shapes of the glyphs are defined with geometrical equations.