Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

`` The reason for that report was to settle the matter of the list.

`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.

What was the list??

The list was headed by ( Henry ) Hutton of St. John's who was matriculated from St. John's at Easter, 1625.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.

Swadesh in short was trying to develop a basic list that was universal ; ;

The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.

The primary consideration in the compilation of this list was convenience in discussing the questionnaire with company officers.

The second list was derived from a group of approximately 8,000 names supplied to the research team by the Aerospace Industries Association.

By these steps the final AIA list was reduced from 8,000 to 3,500.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

A random-storage scheme, based on the spelling of forms, provides an economical way to compile this text-form list.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

In 1960, David D. Thomas published Basic Vocabulary In some Mon-Khmer Languages ( AL 2, No. 3, pp. 7 - 11 ), which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( Af ) in place of original ( Af ), and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards Greater Accuracy ( IJAL 21::

For some time the existence of the word bretwalda in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was based in part on the list given by Bede in his Historia Ecclesiastica, led historians to think that there was perhaps a ' title ' held by Anglo-Saxon overlords.

The following is a list of top 20 urban areas in Borneo by population based on 2010 statistic calculations.

The current list of 88 constellations recognised by the International Astronomical Union since 1922 is based on the 48 listed by Ptolemy in his Almagest in the 2nd century.

Census enumeration has always been based on finding people where they live as there is no systematic alternative-any list you could use to find people is derived from census activities in the first place.

70 % of the 498 parliamentary seats will be based on the party list system and the remaining 30 % through individual-candidate voting, according to official news agency MENA.

The information used to create the late-fourth-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

The Rock was ranked 26th in a list of 69 leading finance centres around the world based on an online survey of 1, 236 business professionals, who provided a total of 18, 878 assessments.

The establishment of an updated list of players and their Elo rating enabled significantly strong international chess tournaments to be allocated a " Category ", based on the average rating of the contestants.

Metzger and Aland list the probable date for this manuscript as c. 125 but the difficulty of estimating the date of a literary text based solely on paleographic evidence must allow potentially for a range that extends from before 100 to well into the second half of the 2nd century.

The latter was based on Alexandre Dumas, fils ' play The Lady of the Camellias, and became the most popular of all Verdi's operas, placing first in the Operabase list of most performed operas worldwide.

) 1981 based on SASL, with pattern matching, guards and ZF expressions ( now more usually called list comprehensions ).

This was confirmed by the following first-order experiments, which all gave negative results ( the following list is based on the description of Wilhelm Wien ( 1898 ), with changes and additional experiments according to the descriptions of Edmund Taylor Whittaker ( 1910 ) and Jakob Laub ( 1910 ):

The information used to create the late-4th-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

Instance based netlists usually provide a list of the instances used in a design.

The following list includes names that are based on German material presently, or until recently, thought to be pertaining to Pterodactylus proper and names based on other material that has as yet not been assigned to other genera.

Other early PLCs used a form of instruction list programming, based on a stack-based logic solver.

" Stu Maschwitz coined the term " Robert Rodriguez list ", i. e. you make a list of things you have access to like cool cars, apartments, horses, samurai swords and so on, and then write the screenplay based on that list.

Andronicus wrote a work upon Aristotle, the fifth book of which contained a complete list of the philosopher's writings, and he also wrote commentaries upon the Physics, Ethics, and Categories.

Canonization ( or canonisation ) is the act by which a Catholic or Orthodox church declares a deceased person to be a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the canon, or list, of recognized saints.

The bishop also seized the body of Ammonius and put it in a church, conferring upon him the title of Thaumasius and putting his name in the list of the martyrs.

Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notions.

Just as in an alphanumeric system, the DDC is hierarchical ; it also uses some aspects of a faceted classification scheme, combining elements from different parts of the structure, to construct a number representing the subject content ( often combining two subject elements with linking numbers and geographical and temporal elements ) and the form of an item, rather than drawing upon a list containing each class and its meaning.

Various sites list documents by Charles Lasner, the creator of the alt. sys. pdp8 discussion group, and related documents by various members of the alt. sys. pdp8 readership with even more authoritative information about the various models, especially detailed focus upon the various members of the PDP-8 " family " of computers both made and not made by DEC.

Thus the exact list is not agreed upon, and the Names of God ( as adjectives, word constructs, or otherwise ) exceed 99 in the Qur ' an and Sunnah.

Each process can then keep a local copy of the data structure, and upon traversing the linked list, can perform each operation from the list on its local copy.

" The importance of these distinctions is evident in view of the dangers of erroneously relying upon more general descriptions of Apothecaries ' fluid measures, which typically list 60 minims per fluid dram, and 8 fluid drams per fluid ounce ( 480 minims ).

Having a single unified list for food additives was first agreed upon in 1962 with colours.

The total number of captures by French and Spanish corsairs was in all probability larger than the list of British – as the French wit Voltaire drolly put it upon hearing his government's boast, namely, that more British merchants were taken because there were many more British merchant ships to take ; but partly also because the British government had not yet begun to enforce the use of convoy so strictly as it did in later times.

Incoming messages sent to the reflector address are processed by the software, and, depending on their content, are acted upon internally ( in the case of messages containing commands directed at the software itself ) or are distributed to all email addresses subscribed to the mailing list.

In addition, he had mentioned a gun count and compiled a hit list of individuals he wished to target ( although no overall plan detailing how he intended to attack targets he had specified was ever posted upon the site ).

The list is non-extensive, comes from the Official Map of Cleveland County, Arkansas, and should be added upon.

" The importance of these distinctions is evident in view of the dangers of erroneously relying upon more general descriptions of Apothecaries ' fluid measures, which typically list 60 minims per fluid dram, and 8 fluid drams per fluid ounce ( 480 minims ).

In the event of the vacancy arising from the death or resignation of a list member, the next unelected candidate on the party list is offered the seat, and upon accepting, is elected.

If the next unelected candidate has died or declines the offer, it is offered to each subsequent candidate on the list until one accepts the seat, such as was the case upon the resignation of Darren Hughes in March 2011, where Louisa Wall was elected after the five list candidates above her on the New Zealand Labour Party's list declined the seat.

In this field Cuvier published a long list of memoirs, partly relating to the bones of extinct animals, and partly detailing the results of observations on the skeletons of living animals, specially examined with a view of throwing light upon the structure and affinities of the fossil forms.

The name of this Philomena was not included in the Roman Martyrology, the official list of saints recognized by the Catholic Church and in which the saints are included immediately upon canonization.

Seuss rigidly limited himself to a small set of words from an elementary school vocabulary list, then crafted a story based upon two randomly selected words — cat and hat.