The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

There is only one catch to this idyllic arrangement: Adam Smith was wrong.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

even marriage and the family was seen as a contractual arrangement.

He was an expert florist, tenderly dextrous in the arrangement of bouquets and wreaths.

The Denver-area TV audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked out when his Bears are playing at home.

The same arrangement was used when the Lo Shu was equated with the Nine Provinces ; ;

This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.

Although short a was not written, as in the Indic abugidas, one could argue that the linear arrangement made this a true alphabet.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

She chose an a cappella arrangement that was close to Edwin Othello Excell's, accompanied by a chorus of amateur singers who were friends of hers.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

It is possible that this arrangement was sanctioned by Alfred's father, or by the Witan, to guard against the danger of a disputed succession should Æthelred fall in battle.

This arrangement was adopted identically into the numerals as used in Europe.

Very soon after his return to Nuremberg, on 7 July 1494, at the age of 23, Dürer was married to Agnes Frey following an arrangement made during his absence.

a marvelous arrangement, for it provides exactly what the bee queens need to make their beebread, a combination of honey and pollen with which the young of all species are fed.

And the few must win what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement would not support markets as we know them at all, and is, in fact, unimaginable.

As part of the same arrangement, Torrio had, in the spirit of peace and good will, and in exchange for armed support in the April election campaign, bestowed upon O'Banion a third share in the Hawthorne Smoke Shop proceeds and a cut in the Cicero beer trade.

When there is employment opportunity for youth, this arrangement -- or lack of arrangement -- works out quite well.

A frequent pitfall in this sort of arrangement, experts warn, is a tendency to pay the wife more than her job is worth and to set aside an excessive amount for her as retirement income.

Performed thousands of times in recent years, Mr. Dragon's arrangement has been played for state occasions such as the memorial services for Presidents Ford and Reagan and at tribute concerts for events such as the Oklahoma City bombing and 9 / 11.

The present coastal arrangement appeared c. 7000 BC, with post-ice age sea levels continuing to rise for another 3, 000 years after that.

The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an irregular line from one side of the screen to the other, with the actors at the end coming forward a little and standing more in profile than the others.

The necessity for defence from attacks ( for monastic houses tended to accumulate rich gifts ), economy of space and convenience of access from one part of the community to another, by degrees dictated a more compact and orderly arrangement of the buildings of a monastic coenobium.

Outraged at learning that black troops had been billeted in his house in Nashville, he nullified an arrangement by Gen. Sherman to allow an abandoned coastal strip in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida be allocated to freedmen for their agricultural use.

The arrangement mirrors the one designed by Bernini for the Tomb of Urban VIII ( 1628 – 47 ), with a central hieratic sculpture of the pope seated in full regalia and offering a hand of blessing, while at his feet, two allegorical female figures flank his sarcophagus.

The arrangement which Andronicus made of Aristotle's writings seems to be the one which forms the basis of our present editions and we are probably indebted to him for the preservation of a large number of Aristotle's works.

In the autumn of 1867 he accepted a $ 40 per week contract, nominally as a clerk, but really to play professionally for the Chicago Excelsiors, not an uncommon arrangement used to circumvent the rules of the time, which forbade the hiring of professional players.

" Apple reportedly obtained an eight-year license for Applesoft BASIC from Microsoft for a flat fee of $ 21, 000, renewing it in 1985 through an arrangement that gave Microsoft the rights and source code for Apple's Macintosh version of BASIC.

A relatively simple switching arrangement reverses the cycle so that the machine literally runs backward, and the heat is extracted from outdoor air and turned indoors.

The corresponding word in Latin is mundus, literally " clean, elegant ", itself a loan translation of Greek cosmos " orderly arrangement.

Ménage à trois () is a French term which originally described a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household – the phrase literally translates as " household of three ".

This arrangement had the poetic name ganko, which meant literally " a formation of wild geese in flight.

Subsequent to the arrangement of Aristotle's works by scholars at Alexandria in the first century CE, a number of his treatises were referred to as ( ta meta ta fysika ; literally, " the after the Physics ").

With this arrangement, the pro-life club held on to its right to immediately reopen the case again should the UVSS deny resources to the club in the future, and the UVSS was able to avoid an expensive legal battle it did not have the will to pursue at the time.

With this arrangement, a nine button keyboard with three rows of three hexagonal buttons could be fitted onto a telephone and could produce up to 33 different symbols.

With eleven keys in a 3 / 4 / 4 arrangement, 43 symbols could be arranged allowing for lowercase text, numbers and a modest number of punctuation symbols to be represented along with a ' shift ' function for accessing uppercase letters.

With the help of Johannes Jessenius, Kepler attempted to negotiate a more formal employment arrangement with Tycho, but negotiations broke down in an angry argument and Kepler left for Prague on April 6.

With specific regard to the pursuit of world peace, Bahá ' u ' lláh of the Bahá ' í Faith prescribed a world-embracing collective security arrangement as necessary for the establishment of a lasting peace.

With Bennington, Derrida undertook the challenge published as Jacques Derrida, an arrangement in which Bennington attempted to provide a systematic explication of Derrida's work ( called the " Derridabase ") using the top two-thirds of every page, while Derrida was given the finished copy of every Bennington chapter and the bottom third of every page in which to show how deconstruction exceeded Bennington's account ( this was called the " Circumfession ").

With this new arrangement, the era of the Comanche reservation came to an abrupt end

On their 1977 album Ra, American progressive rock group Utopia also adapted " Mountaintop / Sunrise ," in a rock arrangement, as the introduction to the album's opening song, " Communion With The Sun.

With this arrangement a page fault could take place across the network as well as on the individual computer and Aegis file system was a single system of memory mapped files across the entire network.

With network executives perceiving the instability of this arrangement as a factor in Nightly News losing audience share to the CBS Evening News, NBC discontinued the rotation, and McGee eventually took over for Hugh Downs as host of The Today Show.

With that arrangement, Ballet Society officially became New York City Ballet in 1948.

With a unique clarinet-driven pop arrangement by Ford's musical director, Jack Fascinato, " Sixteen Tons " spent ten weeks at number one on the country charts and eight weeks at number one on the pop charts, and made Ford a crossover star.

With the approval of the new agreement by the Convention, the College reverted to its original arrangement with Kentucky Baptists.

With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek / Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture.

With this most recent agreement with the Sun Bowl the ACC keeps its Sun Bowl ties for at least four more years ; the most recent prior Sun Bowl agreement was done in conjunction with the Gator Bowl, where the ACC, Big East, and Big XII conferences ( as well as Notre Dame ) had a rotating arrangement with the two bowls.

With Note Expression, the limitations of MIDI controller events are circumvented, enabling articulation information for individual notes — even in polyphonic arrangement ( e. g. chords ).

With an opposite leaf arrangement, two leaves arise from the stem at the same level ( at the same node ), on opposite sides of the stem.

This was the first of the Explosion Juke Box Series singles inspired by " a similar series of Charlie Feathers released in the 70s " ( the third single in the series, " Get With It ", was actually an arrangement of a Feathers single from 1956 ).

" Her performance earned her a mediocre response from the judges with comments that included " With the song selection and the arrangement and how level your performance was it was sort of like the words you don't want to hear your surgeon say ... whoops ," from Zach Werner and " I think you took a song that's extremely hard to sing and you did a damn fine job ," from Sass Jordan.

With the head of the Swedish branch of the Gottorps, the crown prince Adolphus Frederick, things had been arranged by the exchange of 1750 ; but an attempt to make a similar arrangement with the chief of the elder Gottorp line, the Czarevitch Peter Feoclorovich, had failed.

With Buddha taking on more of the day-to-day administrative tasks of governing the planet, this arrangement allows Sanat Kumara more time for the long-range galactic planning and interstellar diplomacy that is necessary for him to prepare Earth for its eventual admission to what Joshua David Stone calls the Galactic Confederation of Planets.

With the new 3 + 2 seating arrangement in both decks, these Fleetlines could carry more than 120 passengers.

With bipolar systems a conductor arrangement with one conductor on each side of the tower is used.

With an emphasis on simplicity, freshness, seasonality and regionalism – Cambodian food has won praise for its elegant and understated use of spice, its harmonious arrangement of contrasting flavours, textures and temperatures within the overall meal rather than a single dish, and its thoughtful and, at times extravagant presentation of dishes with plenty of herbs, leaves, pickles, dipping sauces, edible flowers and other garnishes and condiments.