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With new mechanization the modern farmer must perform the work of six men: a machine stands between the agrarian and his soil.
** This is a distinguished work which stands out from, and above, many of the books and articles which have ben written in this century on Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā ) ( A. D. 980 – 1037 ).
... Conservation work on the building was undertaken in 1935 and again in 1963 and 1964, and today it stands 28 metres high and fully restored.
This compilation of a dozen accounts ( half of which, including the case of Morgan, had been previously published ) stands as a landmark work, a Puritan precursor of the true-crime miscellanies that, stripped of all religious intent, would become a staple of the genre in subsequent centuries.
This piece stands today as " a moving testimony to what can be achieved when an artist's political convictions are directly manifested in his work ".
The title in Basque means " Our Father's House ", and the work stands looking towards the Tree ( the symbol of Basque traditions and history ) as a monument to peace.
In this work, Hera ( second from the left ) is fully clothed, but Aphrodite stands completely naked, presenting her breasts and vulva to be viewed completely.
Today " kludge " forms one of the most beloved words in design terminology, and it stands ready for handy application to the work of anyone who gins up 110-volt circuitry to plug into the 220 VAC source.
In the same year as Radley, George Watson argued that " The case of ' Kubla Khan ' is perhaps the strangest of all – a poem that stands high even in English poetry as a work of ordered perfection is offered by the poet himself, nearly twenty years after its composition, as a fragment.
The work was designed in almost the same way as the World Trade Center complex, with its narrow windowing, and now stands at 394 feet.
In early 1944, construction work started for the test stands and launching pads in the Austrian Alps ( code name Salamander ), with target areas planned for the Tatra Mountains, the Arlberg range, and the area of the Ortler mountain.
The Chinese historical form of dynasty history, or Jizhuanti history of dynasties, was codified in the second dynastic history by Ban Gu ’ s ( 班固 ) History of Han ( 漢書 ), but historians regard Sima ’ s work as their model, which stands as the " official format " of the history of China.
In his two part work The Age of Reason, the American revolutionary Thomas Paine wrote, " The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing ; it is founded on nothing ; it rests on no principles ; it proceeds by no authorities ; it has no data ; it can demonstrate nothing ; and it admits of no conclusion.
Turner's work reflected the violent times that he lived in and stands in contrast to later works such as Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne that were written in a tranquil era.
Using it, he compiled the 1437 Zij-i-Sultani of 994 stars, generally considered the greatest star catalogue between those of Ptolemy and Brahe, a work that stands alongside Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars.
Though highly regarded at the time, and much later forcibly removed from Perugia by the Borghese, it stands rather alone in Raphael's work.
In the third phase of the former Portuguese nautical cartography, characterized by the abandonment of the influence of Ptolemy's representation of the East and more accuracy in the representation of lands and continents, stands out Fernão Vaz Dourado ( Goa ~ 1520-~ 1580 ), whose work has extraordinary quality and beauty, giving him a reputation as one of the best cartographers of the time.
This top-down view of sentence structure stands in contrast to much work done in modern theoretical syntax.
Atop the ridge of St Thierry stands a fort of the same name, which with the neighbouring work of Chenay closes the west side of the place.
It stands distinct from executive or strategic work.
The roof was vaulted in stone in 1758, but the work was badly executed, and during a storm in 1768 the roof collapsed, leaving the abbey as it currently stands, a roofless ruin.
This epilogue ( Book 15, lines 871 – 879 ) is Ovid's way of telling his readers that everything is in flux, but that the exception to this is the Metamorphoses, " Now stands my task accomplished, such a work as not the wrath of Jove, nor fire nor sword nor the devouring ages can destroy ".
Close-by, vis-a-vis Hotel Imperial, stands the statue The Fountain-Helios and Selena, a work of the Austrian sculptor Hans Rathautsky from 1889.
A community that stands today as a symbol of ingenuity and hard work, Masaryktown also was begun during the boom periods.

work and is
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
But in this approach it is the artist's ultimate insight, rather than his immediate impressions, that gives form to the work.
The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
Beckett's own work is an example.
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;
When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.
And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.
The presence of genuine mimesis in art is marked by the persistence with which the work demands attention and compels valuation even though it is but vaguely understood.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
`` The man's true reputation is his work ''.
On the one hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is almost always self-employed.
He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.
The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

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