This immature use of crayons may suggest that she is a little immature for the first grade.

As a first step toward this goal, arrangements were worked out for comparing the scales now in use through circulation of a group of standard platinum resistance thermometers for calibration by each national laboratory.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Sturdy and strong after more than a century of continuous use, the old covered, wooden bridge that spans the Tygartis Valley River at Philippi will have a distinctive part in the week-long observance of the first land battle of the Civil War at its home site, May 28th to June 3rd.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

But the Russians use gymnastics as the first step in training for all other sports because it provides training in every basic quality except one, endurance.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

For the reason just suggested, I shall assume the use of the first subtype of fully distributed cost apportionment in the following simplified example.

The first argument is thus an ideal experiment in which we use the method of difference.

More recently, polyethers -- again in varied compositions, molecular weights, and branching -- have come into use at first for the flexible foams, just lately for the rigids.

He recognized that whatever transformation may be effected in the first stage of an R-stage process, the remaining stages must use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to the state resulting from the first stage, if there is to be any chance of optimizing the complete process.

I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies ''.

It seemed like a good time for officials to use a recently-passed law empowering the post office department to contract for the transport of first class mail by air.

So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.

In the first place, a good many writers who are said to use folklore, do not, unless one counts an occasional superstition or tale.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

The first use of the term " anthropology " in English to refer to a natural science of humanity was apparently in 1593, the first of the " logies " to be coined.

Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services.

The word amphibian became restricted in the taxonomical sense to what we now use around 1600, with the taxon " Amphibia " first published in scientific classification circa 1819.

Tadpoles have cartilaginous skeletons, gills for respiration ( external gills at first, internal gills later ), lateral line systems and large tails which they use for swimming.

During the Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 600 BC the Persians first began to use the abacus.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

The 2600 port was the first game to use a bank-switched cartridge, doubling available ROM space.

Taking boats through these used large amounts of water leading to conflicts with watermill owners and to correct this, the pound or chamber lock first appeared, in 10th century in China and in Europe in 1373 in Vreeswijk, Netherlands.

* 1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.

As for the grain, he says, – since they have no pure sunshine – they pound it out in large storehouses, after first gathering in the ears thither ; for the threshing floors become useless because of this lack of sunshine and because of the rains.

* The first pound lock is invented by the Chinese engineer Qiao Weiyo, improving the canal lock system.

* May 11 – Income Tax Act establishes the first peacetime income tax in the United Kingdom ; 7 pence in the pound, for incomes over 150 pounds.

Shen's book is also the first to describe the drydock in China, and discusses the advantages of the relatively recent invention of the canal pound lock over the old flash lock.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese engineer Qiao Wei innovates the first known use of the double-gated canal pound lock for adjusting different water levels in segments of the Grand Canal of China.

The 117, 000 pound Castor 120 first stage has a propellant mass fraction of 92. 23 % while the 31, 000 pound Castor 30 upper stage recently developed for Orbital Science's Taurus II COTS ( International Space Station resupply ) launch vehicle has a 91. 3 % propellant fraction with 2. 9 % graphite epoxy motor casing, 2. 4 % nozzle, igniter and thrust vector actuator, and 3. 4 % non-motor hardware including such things as payload mount, interstage adapter, cable raceway, instrumentation, etc.

The first issue of the bank notes included only 5 shillings notes and 1 pound notes.

The lobster cooks for seven minutes for the first pound and three minutes for each additional pound.

In economic terms, Wilson's first three years in office were dominated by an ultimately doomed effort to stave off the devaluation of the pound.

Notable is the fact that Flintheart Glomgold's first coin could never be a rand because the South Africans utilized the South African pound from 1825 to 1961, when the South African Rand was introduced.

A Pillbox | pill box presented to a technician at ICI in 1936 made from the first pound of polyethylene

The film briefly looks at Schwarzenegger's training partner, Franco Columbu, a favorite to win first in the under-200 pound division at Mr. Olympia.

Columbu places first and he moves on to compete against the winner of the over 200 pound category.

On the first drill two All-Big Ten linemen and a 6 foot two, 220 pound fullback nicknamed the " Owatonna Thunder " charged at Bronko, who promptly split the blockers and drove the big fullback into a blocking dummy.

* On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper made the world's first handheld cellular phone call in public when he called Joel S. Engel at the New York Hilton with a 2 pound Motorola DynaTAC phone.

When O ' Dell opened his general store, his first customer was Crider, who bought a pound of coffee.

In medieval Europe a type of pound lock was first built in 1373 at Vreeswijk, Netherlands.

* Pulverizers: Originally pneumatic powered standard sledgehammers that did minimal damage, the Pulverizers were first upgraded to 50 pound aluminum mallets for season 2, and were again upgraded to 150 pound mallets for season 3 and beyond.

The British decimal five pence ( 5p ) coin – often pronounced " five pee " – is a subdivision of pound sterling first issued on 23 April 1968 in preparation for the 1971 decimalisation of the currency.