The area was deserted.

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

How foolish it was to try to fathom the truth in an area where only faith would suffice.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.

Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.

The mean temperature of the surface was then computed according to the following relation: Af where x is the fraction of the plug area covered by the hot spot.

From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.

As can be seen from Figure 2, an extensive area was covered by this aerosol.

As can be seen from these dosage isopleths, approximately 100 square miles was covered within the area sampled.

It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

The myocardium of the posterior base of the left ventricle was replaced by gray scar tissue over a 7.5 cm. area.

The mucosa of the stomach was atrophic and irregularly blackened over a 14 cm. area.

Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.

There was a particularly marvelous opportunity for study in this area since almost every stage of pregnancy was represented, from a childless couple to and including every trimester.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

He used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under the arc of a parabola with the summation of an infinite series, and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of pi .< ref >

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

* 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (" Son of Sam ") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.

His formal training came from a series of art schools in the New England area.

Watterson opposed the structure publishers imposed on Sunday newspaper cartoons: the standard cartoon starts with a large, wide rectangle featuring the cartoon's logo or a throwaway panel tangential to the main area so that newspapers pressed for space can remove the top third of the cartoon if they wish ; the rest of the strip is presented in a series of rectangles of different widths.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

The Zhou initially moved their capital west to an area near modern Xi ' an, on the Wei River, a tributary of the Yellow River, but they would preside over a series of expansions into the Yangtze River valley.

The result is a series of battles that eventually take both teams to the blue area of the moon.

It also has a large series of Bobs that follow the southern border and spill into the northwest area of Peru.

Photographer Stephen Wilkes ' series Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom ( 2006 ) captured the abandoned south side of Ellis Island and helped raise $ 6 million in funding from the United States Congress towards restoration of that area.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

This arrangement has come about because as the area of London grew and absorbed neighbouring settlements, a series of administrative reforms did not amalgamate the City of London with the metropolitan area, and its unique political structure was retained.

In time it took on the typical shape of a Basque town, comprising a series of parallel streets ( Goyenkale, Azokekale, Artekale and Barrenkale ) and a transverse street called Santa María, with a church at each end of the built-up area.

The most famous of these is the massive Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain, and the Danube and Rhine borders were strengthened with a series of mostly wooden fortifications, forts, outposts and watchtowers, the latter specifically improving communications and local area security.

In mathematics, Archimedes used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under the arc of a parabola with the summation of an infinite series, and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of pi.

In the central highlands this resulted in unification in a kingdom with the city of Samaria as its capital, possibly by the second half of the 10th century BCE when an inscription of the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I, the biblical Shishak, records a series of campaigns directed at the area.

The area and the people inspired him and provided the backdrop for his best-known short stories, the Oom Schalk Lourens series ( featuring an older character named " Oom Schalk Lourens "), and the Voorkamer sketches.

Late in the series, this area is an irregularly shaped " bubble " about 60 light-years across.

The common area of performance is found in a " social phenomenon called litany ," a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications.

In addition, within the context of the series, Sunnyvale Trailer Park is supposedly located near Moncton ( In reality, the series was filmed in the Halifax area ).

Around 1900, producers bent the tin that formed the bottom of a pan into a series of flues, which increased the heated surface area of the pan and again decreased boiling time.

A series of ring roads were constructed ( Isa al Kabeer avenue in the 1930s, Exhibition avenue in the 1960s and Al Fateh highway in the 1980s ), to push back the coastline and extend the city area in belt-like forms.

Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined in 1925 as a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists ' hotel, referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances, a common area ; or a series of small cabins with common parking.