There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.

Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

All that the English lady wanted to do was to walk up to the monument and lay a wreath at its base.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

Mold was used as pattern and clay cut by holding knife at about 45-degree angle, to form an undercut, making base smaller than the pattern top.

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

A simpler method was to tie a thread tightly around the wart at its base and wear it this way.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

Jay Porter drew a base on balls to fill the bases but Don Wert's smash was knocked down by Rudolph for the putout.

Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;

By the time the fielder got his hands on the ball Deegan was rounding third base and heading for home.

There were nine qualified scouts sitting around collecting base pay the day Helva was commissioned.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base.

This arithmetic tool was based on the vigesimal system ( base 20 ).

The absence of a tax base meant that there was no way to pay off state and national debts from the war years except by requesting money from the states, which seldom arrived.

The growth rate was high at 13. 4 %, but the relatively low base must be considered.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

Moroccan Sign Language was developed by the American Peace Corps on a base of ASL along with incorporating local signs.

Making Antioch his base, he marched at the head of his troops towards Ctesiphon, but a second army was destroyed by the Persians, and further losses were incurred by the retreating Romans in Armenia.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

Like the PDP-1, about 54 PDP-4's were eventually sold, most to a customer base similar to the original PDP-1.

The Caliphate was mostly concerned with maintaining its power base in North Africa, but these possessions eventually dwindled to the Ceuta province.

Following the work of Weierstrass, it eventually became common to base calculus on limits instead of infinitesimal quantities.

They eventually set up their base of operations in San Francisco as X-Men.

He eventually marries a local woman named Ardora, with whom he fathers a son, Lex Luthor, Jr. After its debut, Lexor appears sporadically in various Superman comics as Luthor's base of operations, where he wages assaults on Superman.

The concept of the memex influenced the development of early hypertext systems ( eventually leading to the creation of the World Wide Web ) and personal knowledge base software.

Given a base for the topology, in order to prove convergence of a net it is necessary and sufficient to prove that there exists some point x, such that ( x < sub > α </ sub >) is eventually in all members of the base containing this putative limit.

When St. Louis was trailing 3 – 1 with one out in the sixth inning of Game 7, Smith started a rally with a base hit to left field, eventually scoring the first of the team's three runs that inning.

They eventually formed their new base in Malta.

By the late 1950s, when other emerging nations across the African Continent were demanding independence, a small group of São Toméans had formed the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe ( MLSTP ), which eventually established its base in nearby Gabon.

Earlier, in the 17th century, rich ore deposits were discovered in the mountains and their systematic extraction began in the early 18th century, eventually turning the region into the largest mineral base of Russia.

The band earned a small fan base, eventually signing with the independent label Trend Records.

Thus the material base for intelligence could eventually disappear ( in which case another type of matter could possibly be utilized ).

Tracy eventually used an atomic laser beam to annihilate Intro and his island base.

Since Maskelyne's observations and calculations were made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the Greenwich meridian eventually became a common base for longitude worldwide and was adopted internationally as the Prime Meridian in 1884.

From a near-zero customer base Manco eventually controlled 40 % of the duct tape market in the US.

The Portuguese eventually founded a settlement on the island of Gorée ( then known as the island of Bezeguiche or Palma ), which by 1536 they began to use as a base for the export of slaves.

The commission proposed making the standard hour the base unit of metric time, but the proposal did not gain acceptance and was eventually abandoned.

The Jordanian Army eventually backed Fatah fighters forcing Israel to withdraw its troops without achieving its strategic goal — destruction of the Palestinian fedayeen base.

The President and his daughter, Patricia Whitmore ( Mae Whitman ), later visit the First Lady in the base hospital, where she eventually dies from her internal injuries.

A British naval base, including a large shipyard and a naval hospital, was established at Esquimalt, in 1865 and eventually taken over by the Canadian military.

Given a base for a topology, in order to prove convergence of a net or sequence it is sufficient to prove that it is eventually in every set in the base which contains the putative limit.

After considerable weather delays, Shackleton's base was eventually established at Cape Royds, about north of Hut Point.