From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

Since his Christ was to be life size, how was Mary to hold him on her lap without the relationship seeming ungainly??

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

The graphite was National Carbon NC 60, which has a porosity of 50% and an average pore size of 30.

This small pore size was required to ensure uniformity of the flow leaving the anode.

The size of this hot region was estimated by eye.

A satisfactory cloud was produced even though these nozzles were only about 5 per cent efficient in producing an initial cloud in the size range of 1 to 5 microns.

It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.

In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.

When King Saud visited Washington, the overwhelming question consuming the press was the size of his family.

The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

It was only about the size of a baseball ; ;

) He was the first astronaut on the moon, chosen because of his small size and intrepid nature.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

The size of the unit was chosen so that the units derived from it in the MKSA system would be conveniently sized.

Therefore it was a major landmark when in 1865 Johann Josef Loschmidt measured the size of the molecules that make up air.

As of late November 2009, the Armenian government's foreign debt was around $ 3 billion USD, having doubled in size over the course of the previous year.

Its brain was small and comparable in size to that of the modern chimpanzee.

It contained approximately 1 mile ( 1. 6 km ) of wire, 280 dual-triode vacuum tubes, 31 thyratrons, and was about the size of a desk.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and like that intended for portability and ease of reading.

I was struck by the size of the man, and although cumbersome and heavy, he was still a mighty figure.

Prior to this discovery, biologists had been largely unable to establish a family tree of cats from the fossil record because the fossils of different cat species all look very much alike, differing primarily in size.

This has led to the suggestion that galaxies are largely formed by dark matter, and that the minimum size may indicate a form of warm dark matter incapable of gravitational coalescence on a smaller scale.

Full automatic firearms using pistol-caliber ammunition are called machine pistols or submachine guns largely on the basis of size.

The roles associated with the management a museum largely depends on the size of the institution, but every museum has a hierarchy of governance with a Board of Trustees serving at the top.

The battle was an important victory for the rebel cause, as it reduced Burgoyne's army in size by almost 1, 000 men, led his Indian support to largely abandon him, and deprived him of needed supplies, all factors that contributed to Burgoyne's eventual surrender at Saratoga.

Due to the large size of most sousaphones, the sub-contra register ( for which the fourth valve is largely intended ) is already covered by alternate resonances, known as " false tones " ( see Tuba article ).

The size of the flame and corresponding rate of burning is controlled largely by the candle wick.

The reasons behind this are largely down to the difficulties in accurately classifying different tills, which are often classified based on inferences of the physical setting of the till rather than till fabric or particle size analysis data.

Parliamentary boroughs in England ranged wildly in size from small hamlets to large cities, largely because they had evolved haphazardly.

The size of a mule and work to which it is put depends largely on the breeding of the mule's dam.

The size of this inland sea remained largely stable from the 15th century onwards due to improvements in dikes, but when storms pushed North Sea water into the inlet, the Zuiderzee became a volatile cauldron of water, frequently resulting in flooding and the loss of ships.

Random padding of messages, random delays before forwarding, and encryption of forwarding information between forwarding remailers, increases the degree of difficulty for attackers still further as message size and timing can be largely eliminated as traffic analysis clues, and lack of easily readable forwarding information renders ineffective simple automated traffic analysis algorithms.

Dry fibres are machine combed and sorted into various grades, largely on the basis of the previous in-field separation of leaves into size groups.

Internal-combustion-engine aircraft endurance depends strongly on the percentage of fuel burned as a fraction of total weight ( the Breguet endurance equation ), and so is largely independent of aircraft size.

The ARM core has remained largely the same size throughout these changes.

More recently, Full Field digital mammography ( FFDM ) has taken a similar approach, largely because of the large image size, highly specialized reading workflow and display requirements, and intervention by regulators.

Backyard breeders started breeding for size and color, largely ignoring important characteristics such as temperament and health.

Their population size vary from decade to decade, largely dependent on rainfall ; current estimates range from 625, 000 to 725, 000 birds, with 100, 000 – 200, 000 in Western Australia and the remainder mostly in New South Wales and Queensland.

In the 1990s, the glaciers such as Glaciar Norte ( North Glacier ) greatly decreased in size, partly due to warmer temperatures but largely due to increased volcanic activity.

This classification, based largely on differences in coloration and size, is no longer widely recognized.

The city is largely zoned for single-family residences and are located on larger lots that average about or 1 / 2 acre in size.

Like Princeton, Fort Branch is also largely a blue-collar town although of somewhat smaller size.

Due largely to the size of Texas A & M University, College Station was named by Money magazine in 2006 as the most educated city in Texas, and the 11th most educated city in the United States.

This means that, unlike a flute or recorder, sound is created by resonance of the entire cavity and the placement of the holes on an ocarina is largely irrelevant – their size is the most important factor.