The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group.

Join the four sides together first, then add the base ; ;

After another two weeks, the first young emerge, four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker bees, collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg laying.

Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United States the prairie rattlesnake may not give first birth until it is four or even five years old, and that the young may be born every other year, rather than annually.

The oxygen uptake rate in the mixed liquor averaged 0.8 mg/l/hr during the first four months of this study.

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

The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.

Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.

Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters -- four last year and three this -- without ever being out of first place.

they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

In the United States, where anthropology was first defined as a discipline, the field is traditionally divided into four sub-fields: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology.

In the left part there were four beads, which in the first row have unitary values ( 1, 2, 3, and 4 ), and in the right side there are three beads with values of 5, 10, and 15 respectively.

The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.

Ultimately, the fifth postulate was found to be independent of the first four.

Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.

* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

* According to a note of Isaac de Beausobre ’ s, Jean Hardouin accepted the first three of these, taking the four others for the initials of the Greek anthrōpoussōzōn hagiōi xylōi, “ saving mankind by the holy cross .”

* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

Remarkably, Alfred, undoubtedly with the advice and aid of his court scholars, translated four works himself: Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, St. Augustine's Soliloquies, and the first fifty psalms of the Psalter.

Alfonso spent his first four years in near-constant war with the Muslims.

The tours generally had fewer Tests in the 1880s and 1890s than people have grown accustomed to in more recent years, the first five-Test series taking place only in 1894 – 95.

He started badly, losing the first two Tests heavily after Australia were caught on sticky wickets.

After Australia took a 1 – 0 lead in the first two Tests, Botham was forced to resign or was sacked ( depending on the source ).

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

After much reluctance and debate New Zealand agreed to change for the Tests and the All Blacks became the All Whites for the first time.

The first was won with Cronje scoring 49 and 74 ; in the second Test, he took 3 / 14, his best bowling in Tests, and smashed 82 off 63 balls, his fifty being brought up with three consecutive sixes off Muttiah Muralitharan, and was reached off just 31 balls ; at the time, it was the second fastest in Tests after Kapil Dev's.

Botham's batting – although never the equal of his bowling abilities – declined as well, with a batting average of 38. 80 for his first 51 Tests substantially higher than the 28. 87 he managed in his last 51 Tests, again a number that would be considered unsatisfactory for a specialist batsman in most Test sides.

He resigned the captaincy after a loss and a draw in the first two Tests of the 1981 Ashes series.

He is unusual amongst the majority of current Test players in that he has played in more Test matches than other first-class games ( 116 Tests and 99 other first class matches as of 2007 ). He has been signed by Gloucestershire in 2011 to play in T20 matches.

In August 1993 at Moratuwa, Muralitharan captured 5 for 104 in South Africa's first innings, his first five-wicket haul in Tests.

He managed only eight runs in four innings in the first two Tests, and having taken only two wickets for 136 runs, was dropped for the Third Test.

He then led Australia on its first full tour of the Indian subcontinent, playing three and five Tests against Pakistan and India respectively.

A list of matches, defined as " Tests ," was first drawn up by Australian Clarence Moody in the mid 1890s.

The Grateful Dead ( originally billed as " The Warlocks ") played some of their first shows at the Acid Tests, often as high on LSD as their audiences.

It was first used in English in an article by Irving Kaplansky, " Lucas's Tests for Mersenne Numbers ," American Mathematical Monthly, 52 ( Apr., 1945 ).

As chairman of the Committee on the Psychological Examination of Recruits, he developed the Army's Alpha and Beta Intelligence Tests, the first nonverbal group tests, which were given to over 1 million United States soldiers during the war.

He has the unique distinction of scoring a century in each of his first three Tests – a feat unmatched till date.

In Taylor's first nine Tests, Australia passed 400 in the first innings.

After making two-half centuries in the first two Tests, he failed to pass 20 in the last three and finished with 213 runs at 23. 66 in a team that won 3 – 0.

Taylor was ineffective and failed to pass fifty in the first four Tests.