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Eleanor Roosevelt, in her My Day column for October 12, 1944, eulogized Willkie as a " man of courage ... outspoken opinions on race relations were among his great contributions to the thinking of the world ... Americans tend to forget the names of the men who lost their bid for the presidency.
In the baggage of the raiding column, to the great embarrassment of the British, the Boers found telegrams from Cecil Rhodes and the other plotters in Johannesburg.
The great king Yu () tried to channel the water out to sea where then emerged from the water a turtle with a curious figure / pattern on its shell ; circular dots of numbers which were arranged in a three by three grid pattern such that the sum of the numbers in each row, column and diagonal was the same: 15, which is also the number of days in each of the 24 cycles of the Chinese solar year.
It may be located within the precinct of the Hout-ka-Ptah, as would seem to suggest several discoveries made among the ruins of the complex in the late 19th century, including a block of stone evoking the " great door " with the epithet of the goddess, and a column bearing an inscription on behalf of Rameses II declaring him " beloved of Sekhmet ".
The stationary phase may also interact in undesirable ways with a particle and influence retention times, though great care is taken by column manufacturers to use stationary phases that are inert and minimize this issue.
The line of celebration and honour of his victorious life began with the great column of victory surmounted by his statue and detailing his triumphs, and the next point on the great axis, planted with trees in the position of troops, was the epic Roman style bridge.
The First Division, consisting of the Guards and Highland Brigades, was still crossing the river and a great Russian column was moving straight for the Greater redoubt in counterattack.
Moreover, he personally chose to lead the column in what was to become one of the great infantry advances of the eighteenth century.
Executing such a manoeuvre required great skill and incurred high risks, as it meant that Masséna's men would have to move in vulnerable march column formations, through a sector with numerous enemy infantry, cavalry and artillery.
A great whirl was caused at the north pole by the rotation of column of sky.
Erma Louise Bombeck, née Fiste ( February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996 ) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s.
In the December 19, 1982 installment of his column " An Edge in My Voice ," writer and activist Harlan Ellison discussed the incident, expressing great sympathy for Mayer's position and outrage at what he regarded as overreaction by law enforcement.
For the role, Channing went through considerable transformation, with the syndicated column " TV Scout " reporting months later, " It was a great make-up job — at least the part that made very pretty Stockard look so ugly.
" When my ears were saluted with the agreeable sound of a fall of water and advancing a little further I saw the spray arrise above the plain like a column of smoke ..... began to make a roaring too tremendous to be mistaken for any cause short of the great falls of the Missouri.
A memorial column from 1574 expresses the gratitude of the province for the construction of the dikes after the great floodings of 1570.
He commanded the Gorodok column on 9 – 10 August 1919, with great gallantry and skill, and owing to the success of this column the forces on the right bank of the Dvina were able to capture all its objectives.
Stephen Hempstead, a sergeant in Ledyard's militia recounted, " When the answer to their demand had been returned ... the enemy were soon in motion, and marched with great rapidity, in a solid column ... they rushed furiously and simultaneously to the assault of the southwest bastion and the opposite sides.
On climate change Booker is a global warming sceptic, and claimed in his long-running column in the Sunday Telegraph that 2008 was " the year man-made global warming was disproved ", amid " a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming ".
The great height of the column caused wits to suggest that the Duke was trying to escape his creditors, as the Duke died £ 2 million in debt.
As rage and despair overcome her, Glissa's body calls forth a great column of green mana from Mirrodin's core, annihilating the avatar in the process.
He commanded the advanced guard of General Lomakin's column from Kinderly Bay, in the Caspian Sea, to join General Verevkin, from Orenburg, in the expedition to the Khanate of Khiva in 1874, and, after great suffering on the desert march, took a prominent part in the capture of the Khivan capital.
The " Assumptions " column is of great importance in clarifying the extent to which project / program objectives depend on external factors, and greatly clarify " force majeure " — of particular interest when the Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA ) at least briefly used the LFA as the essence of contracts.

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The sounds issuing from beyond -- winches whirring, men shouting -- indicated great activity and excited me.
By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.
Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.
The natural world then, plus poetry and some kinds of art, receives from the most ordinary of Persians a great deal of attention.
It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.
But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.
One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.
To my great surprise and delight, when they saw the two trees they went rushing off, returning shortly with decorations from their own trees.
And most of the great periods are represented, because we will compare Plato and Aristotle from the golden age of Greece ; ;
Peters insisted that this impression was a great misunderstanding, and evidently, from the quarrel, obtained an unfavorable impression of Morgan's judgment.
Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
For the oyabun to make such a trip was either a sign of great weakness or an indication of equally great confidence, and from all the available information it was probably the latter.
He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.
It has been said that when local government revenues were mostly produced locally from the property tax, the lack of a uniform fiscal year was no great handicap ; ;
recommend to the Congress from time to time authorization for construction and operation, or for participation in the construction and operation, of a demonstration plant for any process which he determines, on the basis of subsections ( A ) and ( B ) above, has great promise of accomplishing the purposes of this Act, such recommendation to be accompanied by a report on the size, location, and cost of the proposed plant and the engineering and economic details with respect thereto ; ;
But he takes his bearings from the great guidelines of policy, well-established precedents, the commitments of the United States under international charters and treaties, basic statutes, and well-understood notions of the American people about how we are to conduct ourselves, in policy literature such as country papers and National Security Council papers accumulated in the Department.
and it is to be noted also that confidence should grow from remembering that great men often appeared in the past to turn local catastrophe into future good for all mankind.
Acorns from the great oaks fed the small black pigs ( akin to Berkshires ), whose `` carcass sweepstakes '' were renowned.
General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.
Unless you want to make your wife a pool widow and to spend a great many of your leisure hours nursing your pool's pristine purity, its care and feeding -- from pH content to filtering and vacuuming -- is best left to a weekly or bi-monthly professional service.
But what quarter could a poor defenseless woman expect from a dictator who would even make so bold as to close all of the banks in our great nation??
Another great danger is that the emerging middle class will feel itself increasingly alienated from the political leaders who still justify their dominance by reference to the struggle for independence or the early phase of nationalism.
These groups have varied widely from mere families, primitive, totemic groups, and small modern cults and sects, to the memberships of great denominations, and great, widely dispersed world religions.

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