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a `` Double-Figure '', which went to the Chicago Art Institute, and is considered by him the most successful of his abstracts ; ;
nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.
For him Mercer produced the lyric to `` Out Of Breath Scared To Death Of You '', introduced in that most successful of all the Gaieties, by Sterling Holloway.
In other words, as students go through college, those who are most successful academically tend to become more committed to a `` Bill of Rights '' orientation.
For example, even the most successful executive lives in a two-room apartment while ordinary people rent space in the stairwells of office buildings in which to sleep at night ; ;
That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.
A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.
My heart was not in it, but, oddly enough, it remains the most financially successful picture of my career.
Moreover, the most artistically successful of the nonfiction films have invariably borrowed the narrative form from the fiction feature.
The Thrift Shop, with Mrs. Bernhard S. Blumenthal as president, is one of the city's most successful fund-raisers for the Federation of Jewish Agencies.
Highly successful in England before its transfer to New York, most of `` Roots '' is as relentlessly dour as the trappings of the small new theater are gaudy.
Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.
Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.
The most successful of these patent anchors, the Trotman Anchor, introduced a pivot where the arms join the shank, allowing the " idle " arm to fold against the shank.
The experimental community was never successful, partly because most of the land was not arable.
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.
From an artistic point of view, he was most successful in portrait-statues and groups of children, where he was obliged to follow nature most closely.
Though the period of his caliphate was not long, it included successful invasions of the two most powerful empires of the time, a remarkable achievement in its own right.
Although early Commodore advertisements attempted to cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine, the Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software.
Future suicide hijackers most likely will encounter greater resistance from passengers and flight crews, making another successful hijacking more unlikely.
The most successful Zeppelin was the Graf Zeppelin.
One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

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It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games, selling 70, 000 arcade cabinets.
The MVS was one of the most powerful arcade units at the time.
The arcade version of the video game hardware is often referred to as the " MVS ," or Multi Video System ( available in 1-slot, 2-slot, 4-slot, and 6-slot variations, the latter being capable of up to six cartridges loaded into one machine ), with its console counterpart referred to as the " AES ", or Advanced Entertainment System ( most likely to distinguish it from the Nintendo Entertainment System, the dominating console on the market at the time ). Neo Geo AES motherboard.
In 1978 Toshihiro Nishikado, a designer at Taito, created Space Invaders which became the company's most popular title ever and one of the most memorable games in arcade history, responsible for beginning the golden age of arcade video games.
The purpose of the takeover by Square Enix was to both increase Taito's profit margin exponentially as well as begin their company's expansion into new forms of gaming ( most notably, the arcade scene ), and various other entertainment venues.
Virtua Fighter ( arcade game ) | Virtua Fighter is rendered in 3D, but is typical of most fighting games in that most action takes place in a 2D plane of motion.
However, when the Gamesman sends a hypnotic signal that entrances over 300, 000 people in the city ( with the exception of Francis ' girlfriend Louise, Spider-Man and Firestar ), the signal does not affect Francis ' mind, which is distracted from entrancement by Louise and the game ; after Louise walks away after having her pleas being shrugged off by Francis, he ( unbeknownst to any others ) plays the arcade machine so hard that it and other arcade machines ( most of which are emitting the hypnotic waves ) explode.
Fighting games were the most attractive feature for arcades, since they offered the prospect of face-to-face competition and tournaments, which correspondingly led players to practice more ( and spend more money in the arcade ), but they could not support the business all by themselves.
In general, it can be said that videogame consoles and arcade coin operated machines used at most a built-in BIOS during the 1970s, 1980s and most of the 1990s, while from the PlayStation era and beyond they started getting more and more sophisticated, to the point of requiring a generic or custom-built OS for aiding in development and expandability.
First appearing in the 1983 arcade game, Mario Bros., in which they were known as Shellcreepers, they are among the oldest recurring enemies in the series, and have appeared in some form in all of the main games, and most of the spin-off games.
1UP. com listed him as the most " Gracelessly Aging Character ", citing the fact that the original Donkey Kong from the arcade game eventually became Cranky Kong.
Gameplay in Shenmue is diverse ; while most of the game is spent walking around the Japanese locations in a third-person ' chase cam ' mode ( talking to people, searching for things, and so forth ), it is interspersed with many ' mini-games ', including forklift and motorcycle races, bar fights, chases down crowded alleys, full versions of Sega arcade games Space Harrier and Hang-On ( both originally programmed by Shenmue creator and director, Yu Suzuki ), dart games, and fighting sequences.
Video games were introduced in amusement arcades in the late 1970s and were most popular during the golden age of arcade video games, the early 1980s.
These traditionally were the most popular arcade format, although presently American arcades make much more money from deluxe driving games and ticket redemption games.
The steering wheel, essentially a larger version of a paddle, is used in most racing arcade games as well as more recent racing simulators such as Live for Speed, Grand Prix Legends, GTR2, and Richard Burns Rally.
While most arcade racing games have been using steering wheels since Gran Trak 10 in 1974, the first steering wheels for home systems appeared on fifth-generation consoles such as the PlayStation and Nintendo 64.
They intended to use it in most of their future arcade games, as well as a video game console they were working on which would later turn into the Astrocade.
The system Nutting delivered remains perhaps the most powerful graphics system of the 8-bit generation, and was used in most of Midway's classic arcade games of the era, including Gorf and Wizard of Wor.

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And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.
it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.
With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.
" Readers of the KLOV credit it as the seventh most popular game.
The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.
* Absalom is also the oldest and most powerful alliance in the first textbased game on internet called Utopia-World of Legends and holds Kingdoms as Equilibrium, Mercy, Sanctuary and Rage of Absalom.
In most versions, the theme of the game is investing in hotel chains.
The object of the game is to earn the most money by developing and merging hotel chains.
At the end of the game, all players liquidate their stock in order to determine which player has the most money.
Once the game ends, the minority and majority bonuses are paid to the minority and majority holders in each of the remaining chains ; each player sells his or her shares of stock in each of the remaining chains ; and the player with the most money wins.
Applications could not directly address video memory in this mode without modification, so it was incompatible with most games, although there is no inherent reason why a game could not be written to function in shadow mode.
Popularity of the VFL grew rapidly and by 1925 with 12 teams, had become the most prominent league in the game and would dominate so many aspects of the sport from that point on.
Third party development for the 7800 was limited as most game companies were locked into exclusive agreements with Nintendo for the NES.
As with most game consoles, there were many more games in development for the 7800 than were actually released.
One of Nimzowitsch's most famous games is his celebrated immortal zugzwang game against Sämisch at Copenhagen 1923.
" GM Robert Byrne called him " perhaps the most brilliant theoretician and teacher in the history of the game.
Dual wielded weapons have become the trademark of some game characters, most notably Lara Croft and Dante.
The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.
Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in Dungeons & Dragons ( although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, helping to visualize the game scenario ).
Burkina Faso's game preserves — the most important of which are Arly, Nazinga, and W National Park -- contain lions, elephants, hippopotamus, monkeys, warthogs, and antelopes.
In the Major Leagues, the most recent example of a swing at an intentional ball resulting in a hit occurred during a June 22, 2006 game between the Florida Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles.
In most cases in the professional game, no-hitters are accomplished by a single pitcher who throws a complete game.

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