School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

I had had difficulties from the very first day.

From the very first he regarded himself as Mr. Hearst's disciple, defender, and afterward his prime minister, self-ordained.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

Our first necessity, at the very outset of war, is post-attack reconnaissance.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

The data for the first day indicate a meteor stream with a very high concentration of particles and may have led to the high estimates of micrometeorite flux.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

In their very first collages, Braque and Picasso draw or paint over and on the affixed paper or cloth, so that certain of the principal features of their subjects as depicted seem to thrust out into real, bas-relief space -- or to be about to do so -- while the rest of the subject remains imbedded in, or flat upon, the surface.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

It cannot be said that our very first day in the Soviet Union turned out to be an ordinary one.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

It is obvious that the careful choice of photocathode which maximizes Af for a given input E ( in the case of the second stage, for the first phosphor screen emission ) is very important.

Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.

In the South, after the first year of the war, paper and ink were very poor.

Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Katya Roslev, who would be Katharine Ross so very soon now, rang up her first sale of the day and counted back the change.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

Meanwhile, it was learned the State Highway Department is very near being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction bonds.

-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.

One of the very best is only now published in this country, five years after its first publication in England.

In their very first speeches it was clear that Shakespeare, like a Nostradamus, had foreseen this moment.

A very small production is found in southern Argentina and Chile, the Netherlands, and Eastern Europe.

Eastern Orthodoxy, in particular has very elaborate and strict rules of fasting, and continues to observe the Council of Jerusalem's apostolic decree of Act 15.

In 546 Victor of Capua discovered such a mixed manuscript ; and, further corrected by Victor so as to provide a very pure Vulgate text within a modified Diatessaron sequence, this harmony, the Codex Fuldensis, survives in the monastic library at Fulda, where it served as the source text for vernacular harmonies in Old High German, Eastern Frankish and Old Saxon ( the alliterative poem ' Heliand ').

Eastern Christianity ( the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches ) have a very rich and ancient hymnographical tradition.

Late Antique styles developed in which figures were stylized in a manner that emphasized their holiness rather than their humanity, and this tradition has been very largely maintained within Eastern Orthodoxy.

In the icons of Eastern Orthodoxy, and of the Early Medieval West, very little room is made for artistic license.

" Eastern Orthodoxy further teaches that " a clear understanding of the importance of Icons " was part of the church from its very beginning, and has never changed, although explanations of their importance may have developed over time.

In the first post war years Tito was widely considered a communist leader very loyal to Moscow, indeed, he was often viewed as second only to Stalin in the Eastern Bloc.

After official US recognition of Liberia in 1862, the two nations shared very close ties until strains in the 1970s due to Liberia's establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries.

In the Eastern European countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Croatia and Romania, Merlot is often produced as a full bodied wine that can be very similar to Cabernet Sauvignon.

On the fourth floor, he set up an X-shaped trading desk — designed to maximize his contact with traders and salesmen — from which he worked very long hours, invariably starting his day before 5 am Pacific ( 8 am Eastern, prior to the opening of the markets in New York ).

Relations were very strained in the mid-8th century between the papacy and the Eastern Roman emperors over the support of the Isaurian Dynasty for iconoclasm.

At the time of the death of Zeno ( 491 ), Anastasius, a palace official ( silentiarius ), held a very high character, and was raised to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire by Ariadne, Zeno's widow, who preferred him to Zeno's brother, Longinus.

And at that very moment, in 862, the Russian Rurik arrives in the Eastern Baltic, builds the fortress of Ladoga and later moves to Novgorod.

The Favorits were very popular in Czechoslovakia and other Eastern Bloc countries.

In particular, Gerald Gardner, who first popularized Wicca in England, was a noted folklorist with an interest in Far Eastern culture who spent much of his adult life in Ceylon and Burma, so it seems very plausible that he could have been familiar with this Hindu term.

The very southernmost parts of the taiga may have trees such as oak, maple, elm, and tilia scattered among the conifers, and there is usually a gradual transition into a temperate mixed forest, such as the Eastern forest-boreal transition of eastern Canada.

The Miracle of the Holy Fire ( 1899 ) was intended as a picturesque satire on the local Eastern Christians, of whom, like most English visitors, Hunt took a very dim view.

Its combat activity was low until 1943 as the army was avoiding suicidal warfare and preserved its very limited resources for later conflicts that sharply increased when the Nazi war machine started to crumble in the wake of the successes of the Red Army in the Eastern Front.

The Eastern region was very ill equipped for war, out-manned, and out-gunned by the military of the remainder of Nigeria.

A very similar mustard, called Krensenf or Meerrettichsenf, is popular in Austria and parts of Eastern Germany.

In Eastern Christianity a very small monastic community can be called a skete, and a very large or important monastery can be given the dignity of a lavra.