The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

De Revolutionibus is not just a collection of facts and techniques.

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

An analysis of the fiscal tax collection year calendars throughout the state indicates that transition may not be as painful as is commonly thought.

The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.

At some cities, this pick-up and delivery service is without additional charge, and, if you are budget-wise, when you are planning your itinerary, you will take advantage of these free delivery and collection stations in major cities within the larger European countries.

There is the free intra-city `` rent it here, leave it there '' service, as an example, the free delivery and collection at the airport, dockside or your hotel, luggage racks, touring documents and information and other similar services.

In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.

This is a delightfully motley collection.

It is a collection with a custom-design look, offering simplicity with warmth, variety and vitality.

The Drexel collection, called Composite, to be shown by Titche's offers a realistic approach to decorating, a mature modern that is a variation of many designs.

Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.

Nassau is currently building a central collection of reference materials in its Hempstead headquarters, which will reach its goal of 100,000 volumes by 1965.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

Basic reference tools are the backbone of the collection, but there is also specialization in science and technology, an indicated weakness in local libraries.

The entire headquarters collection is available to the patrons of all members on interlibrary loans.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, or simply the mean or average when the context is clear, is the central tendency of a collection of numbers taken as the sum of the numbers divided by the size of the collection.

The collection may be in an existing library, or it may be built up in a central collection.

Railroads were built early, easing the collection and transportation of perishable sugar cane.

* The. NET Framework is built on the Common Language Runtime, Microsoft's commercial implementation of the CLI for desktop and server systems, and also encompasses a large collection of programming frameworks and libraries.

Analysis of the design of experiments was built on the foundation of the analysis of variance, a collection of models in which the observed variance is partitioned into components due to different factors which are estimated or tested.

Temmu's reign brought many changes, such as: ( 1 ) a centralized war department was organized ; ( 2 ) the defenses of the Inner Country near the Capital were strengthened ; ( 3 ) forts and castles were built near Capital and in the western parts of Honshū — and in Kyushu ; ( 4 ) troops were reviewed ; and all provincial governors were ordered to complete the collection of arms and to study tactics.

In 1935, they donated to the Dutch people their entire collection totaling approximately 12, 000 objects, on condition that a large museum be built in the gardens of her park.

Brown University's John Hay Library housed the entire library collection from its construction in 1910 until the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library was built in 1964.

Memory leaks are a common error in programming, especially when using languages that have no built in automatic garbage collection, such as C and C ++.

The sap was usually transported using large barrels pulled by horses or oxen to a central collection point, where it was processed either over a fire built out in the open or inside a shelter built for that purpose ( the " sugar shack ").

In an apocryphal anecdote in the collection of imperial biographies called the Augustan History, the spot on which he had built an oratory was claimed by tavern keepers, but Alexander Severus decided that the worship of any god was better than a tavern, hence the structure's name.

The earliest spring-driven timepiece with a second hand which marked seconds is an unsigned clock depicting Orpheus in the Fremersdorf collection, dated between 1560 and During the 3rd quarter of the 16th century, Taqi al-Din built a clock with marks every 1 / 5 minute.

Enterprise was stored at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before it was restored and moved to the newly built Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport, where it was the centerpiece of the space collection.

* José Celestino Mutis ( 1755 – 1808 ), Spanish botanist ; lead the first botanic expeditions to South America, and built a major collection of plants.

Above the Porters ' lodge is the Perne Library, named in honour of Andrew Perne, a former Master, and originally built in 1590 to house the collection that he donated to the college.

Keynes built up a substantial collection of fine art, including works, not all of them minor, by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Seurat ( some of which can now be seen at the Fitzwilliam Museum ).

He built the Palazzo San Marco ( now the Palazzo Venezia ) and lived there even as pope, amassing a great collection of art and antiquities.

In 1652, Ivan Pokhabov built a zimovye ( winter quarters ) near the site of Irkutsk for gold trading and for the collection of fur taxes from the Buryats.

The National Palace Museum is an art gallery and museum built around a permanent collection centered on ancient Chinese artifacts.

The group was assembled by vocalist / guitarists Dion Palmer and Jimmy Christmas, who put together a collection of songs and built a four-piece combo, featuring founding members English Jake and Rich Mixture, during late 1998 and started playing at the Frisbee Leisure Lounge parties along Symonds Street, followed shortly thereafter by inner city pub gigs.

His collection of finished paintings was bequeathed to the British nation, and he intended that a special gallery would be built to house them.

The Sainte-Chapelle or ' Holy Chapel ', in the courtyard of the royal palace on the Île de la Cité ( now part of a later administrative complex known as La Conciergerie ), was built to house Louis IX's collection of relics of Christ, which included the Crown of Thorns, the Image of Edessa and some thirty other items.

Their American teacher told them about Abraham Lincoln and the highway to be built in his honor, and they took up a collection and sent it to the LHA with the note, " Fourteen pennies from Anvik Esquimaux children for the Lincoln Highway.

Between 1780 and 1782 he built his own palace there, the Wallmodenschloss ( also called Wallmodenpalais ) to house his antiquities collection.