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.

Though Rand was a recluse in his creative process, doing the vast majority of the design load despite having a large staff at varying points in his career, he was very interested in producing books of theory to illuminate his philosophies.

After this very large layoff, the Rand McNally CEO announced all Irvine data edits would be outsourced to Bangalore, India.

Koopmans, whom Scarf had met earlier at Rand, became a very close friend and mentor of Scarf.

Writer Rebecca Rand Kirshner agrees that the viewer " could feel how very innards were twisted into this perversion of what he wanted ," and she found that experiencing the scene from his perspective was additionally disturbing.

He appears at first very willing to be second to Rand, but with a title and power of his own choosing, which Rand is unwilling to allow.

He was sent with Loial on a mission by Rand Al ' Thor, to all the steddings to convince the Ogier to lock or the very least guard the waygates to prevent their use by forces of the shadow.

During 1969 – 73, Cuellar was a part of a very strong pitching staff, teaming with Jim Palmer and Dave McNally to form the heart of the finest starting rotation that he Orioles have ever had.

An orienteering map combines both general and thematic cartography, designed for a very specific user community.

A topological map is a very general type of map, the kind you might sketch on a napkin.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

The logistic map is a polynomial mapping ( equivalently, recurrence relation ) of degree 2, often cited as an archetypal example of how complex, chaotic behaviour can arise from very simple non-linear dynamical equations.

Echuca on the map above is very close to Barmah.

Text placement or name placement can get mathematically very complex as the number of labels and map density increases.

Worldwide map services show very little detail of the islands, and are even of limited use to show the location of them with respect to each other and to other islands, because they are so small and far apart.

Garbutt continued to produce Underground maps for at least another twenty years — Tube maps stopped bearing the designer's name in 1986, by which time the elements of the map bore a very strong resemblance to today's map.

An important reference point along a chromosome, which is a very long and compacted string of DNA and proteins, is the centromere ; the distance from a gene to the centromere is referred to as the gene's locus or map location.

The chronicler Edward Hall described the spectacle as showing " the whole Earth, environed with the sea, like a very map or cart ".

* A very old map showing this region of France

It is very well known because of the publicity campaign which accompanied its revelation to the public as a " genuine " pre-Columbian map in 1965.

Witten had pointed out that it bore strong resemblances to a map made in the 1430s by Italian mariner Andrea Bianco, but others found some of the similarities and differences very strange — the map cuts off Africa where Bianco's map has a page fold, but distorts shapes, and includes major revisions in the far east and west.

The edges of these areas are generally defined by roads, though actual lines on the ground are very difficult to draw: most locals tend to have varying ideas, map makers are in equal disagreement and the postcode areas are of no real help at all, being skewed more by number of residents than for utility of naming areas.

Thus, Pondicherry district is made of 12 pockets, some of which are very small ( see map ) and entirely surrounded by the territory of Tamil Nadu.

Author-historian Jeff Guinn explains that it was the release of these very photos that put the outlaws on the media map and launched their legend: " John Dillinger had matinee-idol good looks and Pretty Boy Floyd had the best possible nickname, but the Joplin photos introduced new criminal superstars with the most titillating trademark of all — illicit sex.

This floodplain map figures very importantly in building permits, environmental regulations, and flood insurance.

However, in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the author alludes to where exactly he has situated Duckburg: " I won't bother to say precisely where I situated Duckburg and Calisota on America's west coast ... but if you get out a good map and compare the coastline, you'll see that I stuck the old gold-prospector's adopted hometown directly across the bay from a very appropriately named actual city.

On a modern map that area is very small but the modern day Penge Lane and Crooked Billet are not in their original locations and Beckenham Road would have been little more than a cart track following the property line on the west side of Penge High Street.

Being cut off from the tube map and at the very edge of the metropolis may have meant Thamesmead was not first port of call for immigrants arriving in London.