The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

The Domina sounds real enough, if we could only trust the conditions under which we learn of its use ; ;

It cannot become the source of a real Atlantic community if it remains organized to deal only with the military threat which first brought it into being ''.

The only real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment.

Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

We devote a chapter to the binomial distribution not only because it is a mathematical model for an enormous variety of real life phenomena, but also because it has important properties that recur in many other probability models.

There has been a tendency on the part of many American linguists to assume that a phonemic transcription will automatically be the best possible orthography and that the only real problem will then be the social one of securing acceptance.

to this he glued and fitted other pieces of paper and four taut strings, thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture plane.

Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures, however, believing that any sum they come up with is only a surface manifestation -- turned up by their inevitably limited policing -- of the real loot of the medical racketeer.

It was a bad play, real grade-A turkey, which only a prevalence of angels with grandiose dreams of capital gain and tax money to burn could have put into rehearsal.

Hmpf But on to the frothier side Johnny Weissmuller, the only real Tarzan, telephoned Maureen O'Sullivan, his first `` Jane '' ( now at Drury Lane ) and muttered, `` Me Tarzan, this Jane ''??

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

One item in this unhappy scheme was to have Germany policed exclusively by its continental neighbors, among whom only the Soviet Union possessed real military strength.

`` His real name's DiMaggio, only we call him Maggie because he has to take tranquilizers.

According to Cauchy's functional equation theorem, the logarithm is the only continuous transformation that transforms real multiplication to addition.

For example, if we abbreviate by BP the claim that every set of real numbers has the property of Baire, then BP is stronger than ¬ AC, which asserts the nonexistence of any choice function on perhaps only a single set of nonempty sets.

These quantum numbers only occur in certain combinations of values, and their physical interpretation changes depending on whether real or complex versions of the atomic orbitals are employed.

If one quantizes a real scalar field, then one finds that there is only one kind of annihilation operator ; therefore, real scalar fields describe neutral bosons.

Applesoft converted integer numbers to real before performing operations on them, converting the result back to an integer only if it was to be assigned to a ( 16-bit signed ) integer variable.

An ideal amplifier would be a totally linear device, but real amplifiers are only linear within limits.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

There is debate as to whether time exists only in the present or whether far away times are just as real as far away spaces, and there is debate as to whether space is curved.

It was only with the recovery of Phoenician trade in the ninth and tenth centuries BC that saw a return to prosperity, and the appearance of real coinage, possibly first in Anatolia with Croesus of Lydia and subsequently with the Greeks and Persians.

As of 2008, Comoros and Mauritania are considered by US-based organization Freedom House as the only real “ electoral democracies ” of the Arab World.

Jensen got only six hits in 46 at-bats for a batting average in the first 12 games.

The level of armour protection between AFVs varies greatly-a main battle tank will normally be designed to take hits from other tank guns and anti-tank missiles, whilst light reconnaissance vehicles are often only armoured " just in case ".

In his defense, some baseball historians have suggested that it was not customary for game-ending hits to be fully " run out ", it was only Evers's insistence on following the rules strictly that resulted in this unusual play.

Some nationwide celebrities might command some attention outside their own nation ; for example, the singer Lara Fabian is widely known in the French-speaking world, but only had a couple of Billboard hits in the U. S., whereas the francophone Canadian singer Celine Dion is well known in both the French-speaking world and in the U. S.

For example, a shooter who successfully hits a point of 10 twice will only garner credit for the first one on the fire bet.

The fastest impacts occur at more than 80 km / s in the " worst case " scenario which the asteroid hits the earth in a retrograde parabolic orbit ( because kinetic energy scales as velocity squared, earth's gravity only contributes 1 km / s to this figure, not 11 km / s ).

Touches are scored only with the tip ; hits with the side of the blade do not count, and do not halt the action.

It is worn only in foil and sabre, and serves to distinguish hits on target from those that are off-target.

In the next few years, Gloria Gaynor released the albums Glorious and Park Avenue Sound, but would only enjoy a few moderate hits.

The scripting and 3D animation is slower, enemies have only their front sprites and lack gory deaths when attacked by strong hits or weapons, and the frame rate is slower.

He is one of only four players to have at least seventeen seasons with 150 or more hits.

Although dozens of Kern's musicals and musical films were hits, only Show Boat is now regularly revived.

The songs " Lonely Road of Faith " and " You Never Met a Motherfucker Quite Like Me " were released as singles, but were only minor hits, and the album struggled to reach platinum a year later.

Facility experts believed that it is " a slob's weapon, useful only by half-trained or poorly motivated troops "; they claimed that the machine pistol " hits no harder than a pistol and is no more portable than a rifle.

Hamels allowed only two hits and struck out nine Brewers batters in eight shutout innings.

This is why " Top 40 " stations played only the biggest hits and why oldies and classic rock formats do the same for the eras they cover.

* 1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.

In Clemens's first start in Fenway Park as a member of the Blue Jays ( July 12, 1997 ) he pitched an inspired game, giving up only 4 hits and 1 run in 8 innings.

Tim Lincecum held the Chicago Cubs to two hits through eight innings on August 21, but the team scored only one run, losing to the Cubs by a score of 5 – 1.

The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, " Earth Angel ( Will You Be Mine )", which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts.

Of the 16 torpedoes launched by the TBDs and TBs at the Russian battleship, only 4 hit their mark, two of those hits were from torpedo boats # 72 and # 75.

Williams said that the " only real fun " he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 12-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York.

In 1990, the band ( now without Lindsey Buckingham ) recorded Behind the Mask, but the album only reached ' Gold ' status in the U. S. The album did however, enter the UK album chart at # 1, but there were no UK hits from the album and only Christine's song " Save Me " made the US Top 40.

He is the only player to reach the 3, 000 hits plateau with a triple.