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The area was remarkably dust-free compared to the surrounding road, and it inspired Hooley to develop and patent Tarmac in Britain, in 1902 ( GB 7796 ).
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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.
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It includes, within its remarkably regular outline, an area of, including adjacent islands.
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.
The area is remarkably flat with only a gentle slope toward the center and away from the mountains that border the region.
This causes the electric field from the EMP to be remarkably uniform over the large area affected.
Although at the same latitude as Montreal in Canada or the Kuril islands in Russia, the area is quite mild throughout the year due to the influence of the Gulf Stream waters, and insolation is remarkably high, though far below the French Riviera on the Mediterranean Southern coast of France.
Site B, located in a rural area, is remarkably well-preserved with all three launch silos still capped and what appears to be the concrete control center still standing.
The remarkably flat land in this area is sometimes described as the upper valley of the Red River of the North, though it is not technically in the Red River valley, but is near the Bois de Sioux River.
The reason for the extreme increase is mainly the sea sports available in the area and the remarkably good weather.
Because it is very wary and is found only in a small area of remote and very rugged country, it is remarkably little known.
Once this warm surge inundated the area, a remarkably prolonged period of record setting temperatures ensued.
Yokkaichi's port advanced remarkably during the Meiji period, primarily under the guidance of Inaba Sanuemon, a resident merchant interested increasing trade into Yokkaichi and the Ise area by modernizing the port facilities.
Only in the Llano Estacado area has the formation of the Caprock given rise to a prominent, distinctive, palisade-like escarpment, as well as to a remarkably flat surface.
Three studies found remarkably similar patterns of activation during the perception of such animations versus a random or deterministic motion control: mPFC, pSTS, fusiform face area ( FFA ), and amygdala were selectively engaged during the ToM condition.
Although at the same latitude as Montreal in Canada and the Kuril islands in Russia, the area is quite warm throughout the year, due to the influence of the Gulf Stream waters, and the number of sunny days per year is remarkably high, on a par with the French Riviera on the Mediterranean coast of France.
In humans the six cortical layers of area 10 have been described as having a " remarkably homogeneous appearance ".
The Boroondara Roads Board, the first municipal authority, was set up in the 1850s and covered a remarkably similar area to the present City of Boroondara.
It has an array of hills, lochs, glens, ridges, basalt cliffs, and patches of whin ( gorse ) providing a remarkably wild piece of highland landscape within its area.
As mentioned above, the urban varieties are remarkably homogeneous throughout the whole area, compared to the changes the language undergo in rural populations.
Formal differences between Peninsular and American Spanish are remarkably few, and someone who has learned the dialect of one area will have no difficulties using reasonably formal speech in the other ; however, pronunciation does vary, as well as grammar and vocabulary.
Designed by Charles Luckman, and completed in 1973, the rectangular black building with white trim is remarkably slender for a skyscraper in a seismically active area.
The expressway has remarkably few exits ( the total number is in the single digits ) and just one service area.
Even by the standards of the surrounding area, Hascombe is remarkably affluent: current and past residents include the film star Dirk Bogarde, Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky, television presenter Anthea Turner, actress Billie Piper, and broadcaster / producer Chris Evans.
Coverage was remarkably good with the " commercially marketable " core area of the signal travelling around 140 miles over land, which included most of England, all of Holland and Belgium and much of northern France down as far as Paris.
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