Unfortunately, it was Muzak, which automatically is piped into the public rooms, and which nolens volens had to be endured.

In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.

and although it was a school for men only, it afforded Henrietta an opportunity to attend its public lectures.

The eventual prize in this new battle was the public printing contract that Woodruff still held.

The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.

It was fantastic writing, beautiful writing, the man declared, but the public, he insisted, wanted realism.

A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.

It would, however, reach the proctors and other officers in charge of the public-school performances of the incepting bachelors, and the place that any individual obtained in the lists depended greatly on how he comported himself in the public schools during his acts therein as he was incepting.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern and Western reunion was still another remarkable act.

The measure was instantly taken, as always in such cases, of public men at many levels.

The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.

Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

An excellent summary of advantages concerning the uniform fiscal year and coordinated fiscal calendars was contained in a paper presented by a public finance authority recently.

In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

In many others, the previous patenting of land under the public land laws, or the way in which land was available for purchase, resulted in a scattered pattern of ownership.

It was laid out in 196 for chariot races and other public games.

The earlier New Haven development was public housing, so it easily leaped over the problems met in a private venture.

His mother and grandmother quickly put a stop to it, and this may have convinced them that Claudius was not fit for public office.

An enthusiastic and committed Spiritualist, Conan Doyle hoped that if the photographs convinced the public of the existence of fairies, then they might more readily accept other psychic phenomena.

Among Bulwer-Lytton's lesser-known contributions to literature is the fact that it was he who convinced Charles Dickens to revise the ending of Great Expectations to make it more palatable to the reading public.

Though his talents were far greater than his desire to serve, he was finally convinced to remain in public service when he learned how highly Washington felt of his abilities.

According to Diderot, writing much later, Rousseau had originally intended to answer this in the conventional way, but his discussions with Diderot convinced him to propose the paradoxical negative answer that catapulted him into the public eye.

relation to her Witch-Cult theory, She behaved in fact rather like someone who was a fully convinced member of some unusual religious sect, or perhaps, of the Freemasons, but never on any account got into arguments about it in public.

Simmons convinced McDaniels to start rapping, and though McDaniels would not perform in public, he soon began writing rhymes and was known as " Easy D ."

In his dissections of the heart, Vesalius became convinced that Galen's claims of a porous Interventricular septum were false. This fact was previously described by Michael Servetus, fellow of Vesalius, but never reached the public, for it was written down in the " Manuscript of Paris ", in 1546, and just published later in his Christianismi Restitutio ( 1553 ), an heretic book for the Inquisition.

President Saleh was reported to have decided in 2005 not to run for another term in office, but was later convinced by a public demonstration calling him to continue as leader of the country to run again.

By the following year, Mendocino County had been convinced that the public interest was best served by reclaiming for the public domain 300, 000 acres of timber land from Louisiana Pacific.

Even several public opponents of " non-sexist language ", such as William Safire, were finally convinced that Ms. had earned a place in English by the case of US Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro.

" The Bear and Ragged Staff " is the liveliest public house in the town centre and it was briefly renamed " The Orange Kipper " in the mid-1990s, before the owners were convinced to reinstate the traditional name.

A series of reports in the 1980s and 1990s ranking the Auburn public school system among the top in the state and nation convinced thousands of new residents to move to Auburn over the past 25 years.

Although state regulations prohibited the structure being rebuilt over water, but a public outcry convinced the DNR to allow it to be rebuilt where it had been.

The ensuing shock and public outrage convinced the Japanese government to develop plans for a suspension bridge to cross the strait.

Days after the 9 / 11 attacks, Ailes gave President George W. Bush political advice indicating that the American public would be patient as long as they were convinced that Bush was using the harshest measures possible.

A fan group known as " Lum's Stormtroopers " convinced the Californian public television station KTEH to broadcast subtitled episodes of the series in 1998.

Barry was noted for his service to the community, and convinced the state government to spend money on public works, particularly education.

Stone and Brown both intended to speak in public after graduation, and they convinced Professor James A. Thome, the head of the department and a liberal Southerner who had freed his slaves, to let them debate each other.

Following conclusion of the report, the chair of HEFCE called on " senior staff " and the entire Board of Governors to resign, noting that HEFCE was not convinced that the University's management could effectively safeguard public funds.

Ashby convinced Columbia to let him preview the film as it was to see how the public would react.

In 1948, convinced the paper needed outside capital, he persuaded the courts to overturn his father's will and floated David Syme and Co. as a public company, selling 400, 000 pounds worth of shares, enabling a badly needed technical modernisation of the newspaper's production.

Although the publishers were convinced it would be rejected by the American reading public after the September 11, 2001 attacks, it spent 50 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list ( eight weeks at # 1 ) for hardcover nonfiction and is in its 43rd printing.