The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

He had received both first and second anonymous notices, and each time he had accused his neighbors of writing them.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

So, all in all, the infield can't be expected to supply the added improvement to propel the Birds from second to first.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

As it has turned out, however, the excessive enthusiasm in the first instance and the loss of hope in the second were both wrong responses.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.

In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.

The second piece is in turn glued and screwed to the first.

In a two-story house, one unit may be installed in the basement to serve the first floor, another in the attic to cool the second.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

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.

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

Continuing with the case in which **zg is a Af curve on a quadric Q, we first observe that the second regulus of Q consists precisely of the lines which join the two free intersections of **zg and the planes through any one of the multiple secants.

This subject was one who gave an arm-elevation on the second trial in the naive state but not in the first.

The first possibility results in a closed interval of tangent points in the f-plane, the end points of which fall into category ( B ) or ( C ).

We first define a function b{t} as follows: given the set of squares such that each has three corners on C and vertex at t, b{t} is the corresponding set of positive parametric differences between T and the backward corner points.

The first possibility requires that there be a line through P which meets **zg in Af points ; ;

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

I should like to underline four points I made in my first report with respect to vocational education.

At first, the creators decided the positions of the necessary points to express the outline, eyes, nose, and so on of a certain person.

Death is common in the first week and overall mortality is about 70 %, but increasing evidence points to favorable outcomes after aggressive treatment with corticosteroids, immunoglobulins, cyclophosphamide, and plasma exchange.

Anthemius assumes a property of an ellipse not found in Apollonius's work, that the equality of the angles subtended at a focus by two tangents drawn from a point, and having given the focus and a double ordinate he goes on to use the focus and directrix to obtain any number of points on a parabola — the first instance on record of the practical use of the directrix.

The first half was a defensive struggle, with the first points coming off of a safety by the Falcons, giving Atlanta a 2-0 lead.

AZ therefore qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in their history, but only took four points from six matches and finished bottom of their group.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

Federko scored at least 90 points in seven of the eight seasons between 1978 and 1986, and became the first player in NHL history to record at least 50 assists in 10 consecutive seasons.

The commands are executed sequentially, except as noted below ; an instruction pointer begins at the first command, and each command it points to is executed, after which it normally moves forward to the next command.

Some competitions use a " set " scoring system, with the first to seven points awarded a set in a best-or-three or best-of-five set match.

As the playing time for each individual game is short, it is often played in matches, where victory is awarded to the first player to reach a certain number of points.

Such a move adds greatly to the risk of having to face the doubling cube coming back at 8 times its original value when first doubling the opponent ( offered at 2 points, counter offered at 16 points ) should the luck of the dice change.

When a player decides to double the opponent, the value is then a double of whatever face value is shown ( e. g. if two automatic doubles have occurred putting the cube up to 4, the first in-game double will be for 8 points ).

Duplex embossing requires lining up the dots so they do not overlap ( called " interpoint " because the points on the other side are placed in between the points on the first side ).

The water surface is flat at first, and clearly a surface of equal potential energy because all points on the surface are at the same height in the gravitational field acting upon the water.

The first three points will not pay out on the fire bet, but the fourth, fifth and sixth will pay out at increasing odds.

His first series exhibited as such was of Haystacks, painted from different points of view and at different times of the day.