A glimpse of three of four vague figures, at the most.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

Moreover, the piece is written in five movements, rather than the conventional four of most quintets, and this gives the opus a serenade or divertimento flavor.

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.

In most amphibians, there are four digits on the fore foot and five on the hind foot, but no claws on either.

Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory in one of the closest and most nail-biting finishes in the history of cricket.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

In the sense that most modern languages are " algol-like ", it was arguably the most successful of the four high level programming languages with which it was roughly contemporary, Fortran, Lisp, and COBOL.

These four elements were eventually codified in most states.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

Some scholars contend that the most ancient and genuine story told of only four sons of Aeolus: Sisyphus, Athamas, Cretheus, and Salmoneus, as the representatives of the four main branches of the Aeolic race.

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

The deal is said to be worth £ 80 million over four years, replacing United's deal with AIG as the most lucrative shirt deal in history at the time, but it was later equalled when Standard Chartered Bank agreed a deal with Liverpool FC to pay £ 20 million a year over the same period.

The four sculptural groups at the base of the Arc are The Triumph of 1810 ( Cortot ), Resistance and Peace ( both by Antoine Étex ) and the most renowned of them all, Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 commonly called La Marseillaise ( François Rude ).

Tracks in very sandy or exceedingly rocky areas may require high-clearance four wheel drives and spare fuel, tyres, food and water before attempting to travel them, however most outback roads are easily traversed in ordinary vehicles, provided care is taken.

Bulgaria, often dubbed " Prussia of the Balkans ", was militarily the most powerful of the four states, with a large, well-trained and well-equipped army.

A common nickname for the intentional walk is four-finger salute, since most managers call for an intentional walk by holding up four fingers.

In byte-oriented systems ( i. e. most modern computers ), the term uncompressed BCD usually implies a full byte for each digit ( often including a sign ), whereas packed BCD typically encodes two decimal digits within a single byte by taking advantage of the fact that four bits are enough to represent the range 0 to 9.

The four-string bass — by far the most common — is usually tuned the same as the double bass, which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lower strings of a guitar ( E, A, D, and G ).

In its most basic form, bridge is a game played by two competing partnerships, i. e. four people.

The Heralds four Pulitzer Prizes for editorial writing, in 1924, 1927, 1949 and 1954, are among the most awarded to a single newspaper in the category.

He subsequently became one of the league's most prolific hitters and with his home run hitting prowess, he helped the Yankees win seven pennants and four World Series titles.

to their left are four more anchored ships and to the left of these vessels is a distant shoreline.

The Colts finished a distant second in the West to the Packers in 1966, and in 1967, with the NFL divided into four divisions of four teams each, went undefeated with two ties through their first 13 games, but lost the game and the Coastal Division championship to the Los Angeles Rams on the final Sunday of the season — under newly-instituted tiebreakers, Los Angeles won the division championship as it had better net points in the two games the teams played ( the Rams win and an earlier tie ).

In the formation known as Einstein's Cross, four images of the same distant quasar appear around a foreground galaxy due to strong gravitational lensing

Far distant from any other metropolitan city, by mid-1881 Tombstone boasted a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous dancing halls and brothels.

Business ' and some buildings moved from settlements three to four miles distant to establish in the new town on the railroad.

Though a steel mill once operated by U. S. Steel Corporation provided employment in nearby Fairless Hills, many Levittowners have historically commuted by automobile or train to Philadelphia, some to Trenton, still others to more distant locales in as many as four states.

Johnny and Louise conceived four children of their own, and though Johnny tried to include his stepson in camping trips and other family activities, Ted remained distant from his stepfather.

The sound of distant thunder at the end of the movement is an innovative passage for four timpani.

Penetration to the second layer and more distant lymph nodes, or the third layer and only nearby lymph nodes, or all four layers but not the lymph nodes.

The second-place finisher David Chernushenko, an environmental consultant, owner of Green & Gold Inc. and two time candidate, collected 1, 096 votes or 33. 3 per cent of the total, while Jim Fannon, real estate agent at RE / MAX Garden City Realty, four time candidate and founder of Nature's Hemp finished a distant third, collecting just 29 votes or 0. 88 per cent of the vote.

West Essex Ramblers, founded in 1970, are the local rambling club for Loughton ; the club holds four walks a week in the Loughton area, with summer excursions to more distant locations.

Linguist Derek Bickerton, building on the work of Bernd Heindrich, has recently argued that Ravens are one of only four known animals ( the others beings bees, ants, and humans ) who have demonstrated displacement, the capacity to communicate about objects or events that are distant in space or time from the communication.

In the table-top wargame Warhammer 40, 000, the Necrons are a mysterious skeletal robot-like race that have lain dormant and largely unknown by the other races of the universe for sixty four million years, and are reemerging in the distant future of the Warhammer 40, 000 universe.

The nearest pub is located one mile away in Astwood and the nearest shop is about four miles distant.

Lady Mary Kerr is followed by the 14th Lady's first cousin ( son of Lady Rachel Pepys ), the first male in the line, his four daughters and grandchildren, and many more distant relatives.

Capulin Volcano's highest point provides unobstructed, panoramic views of the volcanic field, distant snow-capped mountains, and portions of four states ( New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado ).

Of the four gates, the Adhar gate called after the village of Adhar about half a mile to the north, wall near the middle of the north wall ; the Ganesh gate, about 400 yards distant, was near the middle of the east wall ; the Ganesh gate is also called Jalela Darvaja, as it was burnt by the English in their first campaign ( 1780 ), the Panvel gate, about 700 yards distant, was near the middle of the south wall ; and the Bandar or wharf gate, about 330 yards distant, was in the centre of the west wall.

Other more distant aspirations include resignalling and capacity improvements at Reading ; the provision of four continuous tracks between Didcot and Swindon ( including a grade-separated junction at Milton, where the down ( westbound ) relief line switches from the north side of the line to the south ); and resignalling between Bath and Bristol to enable trains to run closer together.

Without the Goddess of Good to offset the God of Evil, and without the Balancer to balance all actions, the four Builder Gods exiled the God of Evil to a distant universe.

The player is able to explore four distinct locales on the distant planet, which vary in theme, enemies, and treasures found.

On journeys from the terminus cars were dispatched in two groups: the first group of four cars for the three most distant stations ( the terminus stations, as the most important, received two cars per trip ) and the second group destined for the three nearest.