The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

A single value of the thermal relaxation time Af at room temperature was measured by the progressive saturation method.

A single measurement of the spin - spin relaxation time Af was obtained at 10 Mc/sec by pulse methods.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

It was concluded that it would be appropriate to process the two groups of responses as a single sample of all small businesses engaged in, or wishing to sell to, defense programs.

A small single switchboard was installed in the Village over Woodcock's hardware store ( later E. H. Hemenway's ).

But not a single human life was lost, and property damage in the Hawaiian Islands did not exceed $800,000.

She knew also that I was unmarried and without a single known relative.

A single automobile was parked half-way up the block on the left-hand side.

Lemon was on with his fourth single of the game, a liner to center.

Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.

Now all he had to do was finish in even par to collect the trophy and the biggest single paycheck in golf.

On display were 343 first-class paintings and sculptures from his fabled collection -- and every single one of them was up for sale.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

This was the case, for instance, in the Weapon Shop series, the Mixed Men series and in single stories such as " Heir Apparent ", whose protagonist was described as a " benevolent dictator ".

However, the liberal PLH was unable to unite around a single candidate and split into two dissident groups, one supporting former president Policarpo Bonilla, the other advancing the candidacy of Juan Angel Arias.

Frequentists are unable to take this approach, since relative frequencies do not exist for single tosses of a coin, but only for large ensembles or collectives.

Additionally, if the envoys were unable to reach a unanimous decision within six weeks ( the time limit of a single session ), deliberations were declared void and all previous acts passed by that Sejm were annulled.

One of the series ' earliest successes and its single most popular episode is Lucille Fletcher's " Sorry, Wrong Number ," about a bedridden woman ( Agnes Moorehead ) who panics after overhearing a murder plot on a crossed telephone connection but is unable to persuade anyone to investigate.

At the time, this met with what the Courier-Journal reported to be universal opposition in Indian Hills, with reporters unable to find a single supporter of annexation or sewers in Indian Hills.

Legend says an early traveler, unable to buy a single loaf of bread there, facetiously called the place " short of bread town ," which translates to Paincourtville.

For example, one may be interested in the heights of adult female giraffes, but be unable to measure the height of every single giraffe in a population due to cost or time constraints.

As The Blue Belles, their first single was ironically a song that the group didn't participate in-" I Sold My Heart to the Junkman " was, as explained in Patti LaBelle's memoirs, Don't Block the Blessings, originally recorded by The Starlets, then riding high on their hit single, " Tell Him No " and were on the road when the song was released, unable to promote it.

Although the grounds of Kings Weston House, in Bristol, were briefly considered — which then, and until 1969, accommodated the College's School of Architecture and Building Engineering — the City of Bristol was unable to offer the expanding college an appropriately sized single site.

Receiving his orders to charge immediately, Arrighi hastily formed his squadrons and led forward Bordessoule's brigade up the slope, but once there, he found himself in the middle of enemy barricades and was, according to his own account, unable to deploy a single squadron.

On 8 November, in an article titled " The Detectives ", he says, " The people are beginning to fear that the Irish Government is merely a, machinery for their destruction ; that, for all the usual functions of Government, this Castle-nuisance is altogether powerless ; that it is unable, or unwilling, to take a single step for the prevention of famine, for the encouragement of manufactures, or providing fields of industry, and is only active in promoting, by high premiums and bounties, the horrible manufacture of crimes!

Though not facing a majority, the inability of the Liberal parties ( themselves unable to form a single faction until 1934 ), the Conservatives and Agrarians to form a majority government pressed for a minority government led by Hansson, expecting support from the Farmers ' League through an agriculture policy favoring the interests of the League ( kohandeln ), although stopping short of inviting it into the cabinet.

Slade was unable keep momentum for the next single " Give Us a Goal ", released in March 1978.

Because the genus was only known from a single partial specimen with no counterpart, Conway Morris was unable to deduce its affinity.

The single sold a few hundred copies, and was played on the John Peel show, but the band were unable to get a record deal.

Another of his enduring works is The Failure of the New Economics ( 1959 ), a detailed, chapter-by-chapter critique of John Maynard Keynes's highly influential General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, about which he paraphrased a quote attributed to Samuel Johnson, that he was " unable to find in it a single doctrine that is both true and original.

One reason for the defeat of the Muslim army was their preoccupation with war booty ; another was the squabbles between various ethnic and tribal factions, which led to the surviving generals being unable to agree on a single commander to take the Abdul Rahman's place, ( he alone had a Fatwa from the Caliph, and thus absolute authority over the faithful under arms ).

In November 1941 during Operation Crusader, part of the North African Campaign, staff officers of the British Eighth Army were unable to find even a single example of the Boys knocking out a German tank.

Throughout the Pacific War, the Allies were unable to agree on a single Commander-in-Chief ( C-in-C ).

However, a trip to the UK to promote this single proved to be a financial disaster as the single dropped off the charts after only one week, and The Guess Who found themselves unable to get airplay or to book any paying gigs without work visas.

Another states that he stole two bases on a single pitch, which is difficult but feasible if a catcher making the throw to second made a mediocre throw and had a shortstop unable to catch the runner at third with a throw.

For example, Fortunato comments on another nobleman being unable to distinguish Amontillado from Sherry when Amontillado is in fact a type of Sherry, and treats De Grave, an expensive French wine, with very little regard by drinking it in a single gulp.