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first and use
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.

first and torch
According to Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ), the torch relay, called lampadedromia or lampadephoria, was first instituted at Athens in honor of Prometheus.
" The music has an African tribal sound to it, to emphasize the idea of humanity as a single unified tribe on this planet ; the lagoon is surrounded by nineteen large torches signifying the first 19 centuries of the common era, and the show culminates in the globe opening like a lotus blossom to reveal a twentieth torch, representing the now-completed 20th century.
When the " Pan-Am " name was replaced by " Amoco ", it marked the first time the torch and oval was used with the Amoco name.
In 1999 they rejected Nazism, although SD's long used logo in the 1990s was a Swedish version of the NF torch, SD's first ( albeit short-lived ) logo actually consisted of a stylized Myosotis scorpioides, a flower similar to the one used by the party as logo since 2006, a kidneywort.
In 2006, the party changed its logo from the torch, to featuring a Anemone hepatica, reminiscent of the party's very first logo.
In 2004, the first global torch relay was undertaken, a journey that lasted 78 days.
( 6 ) She was the first, after the king, to hurl her blazing torch into the palace.
The first time each player visits Tribal Council, they are asked to take a torch and light it from the fire pit present at every Council.
It was first used in TV coverage of the 1976 Montreal Olympics to generate a picture-in-picture inset of the Olympic flaming torch while the rest of the picture featured the runner entering the stadium.
According to the painting done by Aetion, of Alexander's first wedding, Hephaestion was his torch bearer ( best man ), showing by this not only his friendship, but also his support for Alexander's policies, as Alexander's choice of an Asian bride had not been a popular one.
The Baroque artists usually treated it as a nocturnal chiaroscuro scene, illuminated by a single candle, torch or lantern, in the style fashionable in the first half of the 17th century.
In the first games in Buenos Aires in 1951, the torch came from Olympia, Greece.
However, since the 1955 Pan American Games, the torch is lit by Aztec people in old temples, first in the Sierra de la Estrella and after in the Temple of the Sun God in the Teotihuacán Pyramids.
An Aztec then lights the torch of the first relay bearer, thus initiating the Pan American Games torch relay that will carry the flame to the host city's main stadium, where it plays an important role in the opening ceremony.
Other items of equipment include Hiatts Speedcuffs, CS ( irritant ) Spray, extendible batons, a first aid pouch, an encrypted radio and a torch with traffic wand, Limb Restraints, finally the PSNI plan to distribute 2100 BlackBerry devices to officers by the end of March 2011 and by March 2012 they plan to distribute an additional 2000 devices.
" Its first big hit, in 1955, was by Julie London singing her version of torch song Cry Me a River, which climbed to US # 9.
The toppling of the Goddess of Democracy was seen by millions across the world on television: “ pushed by a tank, it fell forward and to the right, so that its hands and the torch struck the ground first, breaking off.
*" As a basketball player, Julius was the first to actually take the torch and become the spokesman for the NBA.
The French electrical inventor Auguste de Méritens produced the first carbon arc torch, patented in 1881, which was successfully used for welding lead in the manufacture of lead-acid batteries.
Food and water should also be carried, along with an emergency whistle, torch / flashlight ( and spare batteries ) and first aid kit.
The torch relay will be the first time in Olympics history that protests will accompany the torch as it passes through a U. S. city.
She was the first, after the king, to hurl her blazing torch into the palace.

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