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The column was circulated around the Internet, with an erroneous claim that it was a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut, usually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the misattribution became a news item when Vonnegut was contacted by reporters to comment.
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He had no doubt the marine was the lead scout of a column, and while his shot had probably bred indecision, they would soon come hunting.
Its first apparition was a long, gloomy column of refugees riding in farm wagons, or pushing prams.
I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??
The mixture was then extracted with alkali and with water following which the carbon tetrachloride was distilled on a Vigreux column, a 25% center cut being retained which was then degassed under vacuum in the presence of Af.
Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.
After dialysis the sample was centrifuged and the supernatant placed on a Af cm column of EEAE-cellulose equilibrated with starting buffer.
The only treatment by which nonspecific staining could be satisfactorily removed was by passing the conjugate through a DEAE-cellulose column.
When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.
In our work the best procedure for removing substances causing nonspecific staining in order to obtain specific conjugates was to pass the conjugates through a DEAE-cellulose column and in some cases to absorb the first and second milliliter fractions with sweet clover tissue powder.
If the bottom name in each column did not have a responsible executive identified, the next name above which identified such a responsible executive was substituted.
Substance Z, an active urinary peptide, was purified by extraction in organic solvents and repeated column chromatography ; ;
The great column from which the square takes its name was erected by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Ask Tony was doomed from the moment Kupcinet leveled on it in his Sun-Times column.
The US ASCII 1968 Code Chart was structured with two columns of control characters, a column with special characters, a column with numbers, and four columns of letters
The Greeks gave to him the name αγυιεύς agyieus as the protector god of public places and houses who wards off evil, and his symbol was a tapered stone or column.
A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.
His body was placed in Hadrian's mausoleum, a column was dedicated to him on the Campus Martius, and the temple he had built in the Forum in 141 to his deified wife Faustina was rededicated to the deified Faustina and the deified Antoninus.
Primary user input was decimal, via standard IBM 80 column punched cards and output was decimal, via a front panel display.
In his instrument, temperatures were indicated by the height at which a column of mercury was sustained by a certain mass of air, the volume, or " spring ", of which varied with the heat to which it was exposed.
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In November 2011, a column fiercely critical of " Obama's America " and falsely attributed to Sowell was circulated on the Internet.
He writes a monthly foreign affairs column for Project Syndicate, a nonprofit association of newspapers around the world that is circulated in 145 countries.
He joined the Washington Post Writers Group in 1974, writing a syndicated twice-weekly column, which became widely circulated among newspapers across the country.
She also wrote Modern Love: A no-nonsense guide to a life of passion ( AARP / Sterling, 2006 ) based on her “ Modern Love ” column in the nationally circulated AARP the magazine.
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The operating principle of CCC equipment requires a column consisting of an open tube coiled around a bobbin.
However, according to the architectural historian Vitruvius, the column was created by the sculptor Callimachus, probably an Athenian, who drew acanthus leaves growing around a votive basket.
Of a similar proportion to the second temple it retained the 6 by 15 column pattern around the stylobate.
He also contributed to film magazines from all around the world, including Spanish speaking La Cosa: Cine Fantástico magazine, from Argentina, where he had a monthly column for over four years.
The festival became centered around the Siegessäule in the middle of the park ; and the golden angel atop the column became the parade's emblem.
During game play a piece moves from its starting square, clockwise around the perimeter of the board, and up the player's home column to the finishing square.
At around 7: 17 a. m. local time, Evenks natives and Russian settlers in the hills northwest of Lake Baikal observed a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the Sun, moving across the sky.
The groom may be a mere detail: the new editor of Modern Bride began her inaugural column, without irony: " I really did have the wedding of my dreams, the wedding that had been floating around my head for years before I met my husband.
In structural engineering, the two-dimensional radius of gyration is used to describe the distribution of cross sectional area in a column around its centroidal axis.
However, if the principal moments of the two-dimensional gyration tensor are not equal, the column will tend to buckle around the axis with the smaller principal moment.
Often the character sequences are staggered around the drum, shifting with each column.
Around noon the Jameson armed column was around twenty miles further on, at Krugersdorp, where a small force of Boer soldiers had blocked the road to Johannesburg and dug in and prepared defensive positions.
An alternative method results when the decomposition is done the other way around, i. e. the first matrix A is decomposed into column vectors and the second matrix B into row vectors:
The initial disorder of the Allied column was soon checked as each battalion rallied around its colours ; the compact formation was restored, and the British and Hanoverians accomplished their retreat in good order.
The column formed up around Spinetta, southeast of Marengo, and advanced down the New Road.
As Wood approached, Hyder Ali raised the siege, snuck around Wood's column, and attacked his baggage train in a battle near Bagalur.
The instruments ( speedometer, fuel gauge and ampmeter ) were placed in a cluster around the steering column and the gear change was floor mounted.
In such a tube, glow discharge around the cathode is usually minimized ; instead there is a so-called positive column, filling the tube.
# If the letters appear on the same column of your table, replace them with the letters immediately below respectively ( wrapping around to the top side of the column if a letter in the original pair was on the bottom side of the column ).
Eruption column around 8: 35 am on May 18, 1980.
In his September 29, 2005, column in The New York Times, Friedman entertained the idea of supporting the Kurds and Shias in a civil war against the Sunnis :" If they the Sunnis won't come around, we should arm the Shiites and Kurds and leave the Sunnis of Iraq to reap the wind.
The battle began around 8 a. m. with the first allied column attacking the village of Telnitz, which was defended by the 3rd Line Regiment.
This deadly barrage forced the French out, and around the same time, the third column attacked the castle of Sokolnitz.
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