Two minutes later it came again -- a double explosion, followed by a third, sounding more distant.

It was nothing more than a tiny distant rain squall, a dull gray sheet which reached from a layer of clouds to the earth.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

Her presence only made Letch more distant and irritable and, in the hurry of buying Chateau Belletch, I had neglected to consider a room for Baby-dear, so there was no place to put her, anyhow.

This suggests that the sampling period, particularly at the more distant locations, should have been increased.

Proximate in the sense that there are more distant, more `` positive '' ends we seek, to which victory over Communism is but a means.

Casey heard the click of the distant receiver before he could open his mouth, and it took him no more than three seconds to make his decision.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

That animals and humans are more altruistic towards close kin than to distant kin and non-kin has been confirmed in numerous studies across many different cultures.

Fluoride " loses " a pair of valence electrons because the electrons shared in the B — F bond are located in the region of space between the two atomic nuclei and are therefore more distant from the fluoride nucleus than they are in the lone fluoride ion.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).

In this later period, the Pueblo II became more self-contained, decreasing trade and interaction with more distant communities.

On 29 November 1879 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married a much more distant relative, Maria Christina of Austria, daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and of his wife Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria.

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For much more distant objects the Euclidean approximation is not valid, and General Relativity must be taken into account when calculating the luminosity distance of an object.

Parallax is caused by a change in the position of the observer looking at a relatively nearby object, as measured against more distant objects, and is therefore dependent upon the distance between the observer and the object.

However, the Game Gear was backed up by significantly more popular titles and consequently the market became dominated by Nintendo followed by Sega in a distant second and the Lynx in third.

As an architect or engineer becomes more concerned with the disadvantages of transportation networks, and dependence on distant resources, their designs tend to include more autonomous elements.

However, as BBSes became more widespread, there evolved a desire to connect systems together to share messages and files with distant systems and users.

* Northeast Caucasian languages, such as Chechen, are seen by the French linguist Michel Morvan as more likely candidates for a very distant connection.

Conversely, because space is expanding, and more distant objects are receding ever more quickly, light emitted by us today may never " catch up " to very distant objects.

Then, after many more billions of years, when all the galaxies are whistling toward a common center, this movement will slow down and reverse itself again.

One of the more significant galaxies in Canes Venatici is the Whirlpool Galaxy ( M51, NGC 5194 ) and NGC 5195, a small barred spiral galaxy that is seen face on.

For instance, galaxies contain more young stars and are less clustered, and quasars appear more numerous.

All these lines of evidence suggest that galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and the universe as a whole contain far more matter than that which interacts with electromagnetic radiation.

Although the theory of special relativity forbids objects to have a relative velocity greater than light speed, and general relativity reduces to special relativity in a local sense ( in small regions of spacetime where curvature is negligible ), general relativity does allow the space between distant objects to expand in such a way that they have a " recession velocity " which exceeds the speed of light, and it is thought that galaxies which are at a distance of more than about 14 billion light-years from us today have a recession velocity which is faster than light.

These groups divide into blue star-forming galaxies that are more like spiral types, and red nonstar forming galaxies that are more like elliptical galaxies.

One is more likely to find elliptical galaxies in more crowded regions of the universe ( such as galaxy clusters ).

There are probably more than 170 billion () galaxies in the observable universe.

In the case where one of the galaxies is much more massive, however, the result is known as cannibalism.

Starburst galaxies were more common during the early history of the universe, and, at present, still contribute an estimated 15 % to the total star production rate.

They typically contain no more than 50 galaxies in a diameter of 1 to 2 megaparsecs ( Mpc )( see 10 < sup > 22 </ sup > m for distance comparisons ).

Our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, is contained in the Local Group of more than 40 galaxies.

Large galaxies can have more: Andromeda, for instance, may have as many as 500.

Intergalactic travel, or travel between different galaxies, would be even more difficult.

The group comprises more than 54 galaxies ( including dwarf galaxies ), with its gravitational center located somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.

Or, more rhythmically, ' The swarthy witches are laughing '??

but four Eromonga women are more than a match for the strongest male that ever lived.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

I suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.

Old attitudes are held more tenaciously in the Tidewater than the Piedmont ; ;

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.

The Poetics, in affirming that all human arts are `` modes of imitation '', gives a more serious role to artistic mimesis than did Plato.

The state universities of Maine, New Hampshire, And Vermont are older and more `` respectable '' ; ;

Among the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature more than half are practically unknown to readers of English.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

All four types of message listed in Table 1 are permitted, although decorum and cocktail tradition require holding the commands to a minimum, while exclamations having complimentary intonations are more than customarily encouraged.

In contrast to cocktail parties, military organizations, even in the field, are more formal.

Have not our physical abilities already deteriorated because of the more sedentary lives we are now living??

What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.

and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.

but they are important foundation stones for more extensive exploration of outer space for the ultimate benefit of all mankind.