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There were odd stories about him ; as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened .”
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There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.
There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.
There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.
There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.
There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.
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There are further FFT specializations for the cases of real data that have even / odd symmetry, in which case one can gain another factor of ( roughly ) two in time and memory and the DFT becomes the discrete cosine / sine transform ( s ) ( DCT / DST ).
There was talk of the formation of a formal organization to study the type of odd events related in his books.
There is also an almost endless array of toy R / C vehicle designs, ranging from common cars and trucks, to tanks, bulldozers, and motor cycles, to increasingly odd vehicles with unorthodox designs.
There are two sensible possibilities: either the data is odd about the point prior to a, in which case the odd extension is (− c ,− b ,− a, 0, a, b, c ), or the data is odd about the point halfway between a and the previous point, in which case the odd extension is (− c ,− b ,− a, a, b, c )
There is also an extensive fault trending through Florenceville-Bristol from NE to SW which the Saint John River follows for a short distance through the town, causing its seemingly odd bend in flow in the local area.
There may be two, three, four or five valves per cylinder, with the intake valves outnumbering the exhaust valves in case of an odd number.
There was a charm about the animations, with their quirky humour and sharpness of observation-such as in the antics of the non-speaking characters and in the odd little things happening in the background.
There are oddities about the building's interior: to reach the top floor, the 21st, which was added in 1905, three years after the building was completed, a second elevator has to be taken from the 20th floor ; on that floor, the bottoms of the windows are chest-high ; the bathrooms are divided, with the men's rooms on even floors and the women's rooms on odd ones.
There are several ways to make the centre pieces distinguishable, which would make an odd centre permutation visible.
There are infinitely many odd primitive semiperfect numbers, the smallest being 945, a result of Paul Erdos: there are also infinitely many primitive semiperfect numbers that are not harmonic divisor numbers.
Journalist Christopher Booker, a founder of the satirical magazine Private Eye, recalled the " bewitching " character of the swinging sixties: " There seemed to be no one standing outside the bubble, and observing just how odd and shallow and egocentric and even rather horrible it was.
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