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One of the few, if not the only, times he left Scotland was towards the end of his life, when he returned to Ireland to found the monastery at Durrow.
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One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.
One said, `` When I get a cold I buy a bottle of whiskey for it, and within a few hours it's gone ''.
One of the most intriguing questions is whether the recent departures of the Federal Reserve authorities from confining their open market operations to Treasury bills will spread into longer-term Government securities in the next few months.
Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".
One of the few Inca sites the Spanish never found in their conquest was Machu Picchu, which lay hidden on a peak on the eastern edge of the Andes where they descend to the Amazon.
One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.
One of the very few motor manufacturers to actually sit in and race the cars he designed and built, the competition no doubt " improved the breed " and the " LM " team cars were very successful in national and international motor racing including at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.
" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.
One class lives only in a variety of freshwater environments, and a few members of a mostly marine class prefer brackish water.
One hundred and fifty more occur with the prefix ge-( reckoning a few found only in the past-participle ), but of these one hundred occur also as simple verbs, and the prefix is employed to render a shade of meaning which was perfectly known and thoroughly familiar except in the latest Anglo-Saxon period.
* The role of Jim Gordon in Batman Year One being one of the few who doubts that Batman is a threat and is replaced at first by Ethan Bennett.
One young Belgian officer wrote home: " Happily Gongo's men ate them up a few hours.
One suggested method is to take guaifenesin in the few days before ovulation.
One of the few residential designs by Saarinen, the home is a representation of International Style and was built for J. Irwin Miller.
One of his few religious artworks was created in 1960, Christ Head, with an angular " Modiglianiesque " portrait of Jesus Christ.
* – One of the few comprehensive books on these ships
Christianity, with a few exceptions, sees the One, True God as having triune personhood: God the Father, God the Son ( Jesus ) and God the Holy Spirit.
One of the few socialists to endorse the ERA, she warned that protective legislation for women would mean only discrimination against women.
One of Compaq's few bright spots was its services business, which was outperforming HP's own services division.
One of the few production telephone DTMF keypads with all 16 keys, from an Autovon Telephone.
One of the few general approaches is through the Hasse principle.
Poe spent the last few years of his life in this small cottage in the Fordham, Bronx | Bronx, New York. One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.
One student did find some remains: a young Dutchman named Eugene Dubois went to the East Indies and dug up the remains of Java Man consisting of a skullcap, thighbone, and a few teeth.
One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.
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The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..
One way to determine whether we have so dangerous a technology would be to check the strength of our society's organs to see if their functioning is as healthy as before.
One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.
One may be exasperatingly aware that if the answer is favorable it will be judged such only by those of one's own age.
One might also wonder if monkeys are capable of developing bronchiolitis as we know it in man or the horse.
One might digress at this point and speculate that if it is `` wise '' to create special sections for special status, then why not a special section for women pregnant before marriage, and one for 44-year-old men with teenage children, and so on.
One hebephrenic women confided to me, `` I live in a world of words '', as if, to her, words were fully concrete objects ; ;
One man remarked that if he had a hundred pounds, he would give ninety of them to be back in England.
One old-timer said to sprinkle sugar on a bleeding cut, even when on a knuckle, if it was made by a rusty tool ; ;
One family bound wounds with bacon or salt pork strips, or, if these were not handy, plain lard.
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 looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.
One did one's best and if fortune smiled, there was a reward.
One did one's best and if fortune frowned, an eighteen-year-old boy with murder in his heart sailed aboard one's ship.
:: One consequence is that people are more cooperative if it is more likely that individuals will interact again in the future.
One method of accomplishing this moor is to set a bow anchor normally, then drop back to the limit of the bow cable ( or to double the desired scope, e. g. 8: 1 if the eventual scope should be 4: 1, 10: 1 if the eventual scope should be 5: 1, etc.
One of the roles of Ares that was sited in mainland Greece itself was in the founding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by Cadmus, for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung up as the fully armored autochthonic Spartoi.
* In the Judge Dredd comic stories, originally published in 2000 AD, the megalopolis of Mega-City One consists of many hundreds, if not thousands, of City Blocks, in which a citizen can be born, grow, live, and die without ever leaving.
One of his more famous works, the Summa which is important because of is its system for determining if a war is just.
One such bonus was a ten to one payout if the player's hand consisted of the ace of spades and a black jack ( either the jack of clubs or the jack of spades ).
One problem with this encode-transmit-receive-decode model is that the processes of encoding and decoding imply that the sender and receiver each possess something that functions as a codebook, and that these two code books are, at the very least, similar if not identical.
One isotope of cadmium, < sup > 113 </ sup > Cd, absorbs neutrons with very high probability if they have an energy below the cadmium cut-off and transmits them otherwise.
One concern often expressed ( both by non-cyclists and some cyclists ) is the thought that riding in traffic exposes the cyclist to higher levels of air pollution, especially if he or she travels on or along busy roads.
( One cannot critique promoting Western values if one believes that said values are absolutely correct.
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