The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

De Revolutionibus is not just a collection of facts and techniques.

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

An analysis of the fiscal tax collection year calendars throughout the state indicates that transition may not be as painful as is commonly thought.

The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.

At some cities, this pick-up and delivery service is without additional charge, and, if you are budget-wise, when you are planning your itinerary, you will take advantage of these free delivery and collection stations in major cities within the larger European countries.

There is the free intra-city `` rent it here, leave it there '' service, as an example, the free delivery and collection at the airport, dockside or your hotel, luggage racks, touring documents and information and other similar services.

In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.

This is a delightfully motley collection.

It is a collection with a custom-design look, offering simplicity with warmth, variety and vitality.

The Drexel collection, called Composite, to be shown by Titche's offers a realistic approach to decorating, a mature modern that is a variation of many designs.

Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.

Nassau is currently building a central collection of reference materials in its Hempstead headquarters, which will reach its goal of 100,000 volumes by 1965.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

Basic reference tools are the backbone of the collection, but there is also specialization in science and technology, an indicated weakness in local libraries.

The entire headquarters collection is available to the patrons of all members on interlibrary loans.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, or simply the mean or average when the context is clear, is the central tendency of a collection of numbers taken as the sum of the numbers divided by the size of the collection.

The complete translation ( in nine volumes ) of a popular Sunni collection of hadith.

In 2004, the Epoch Times published a collection of nine editorials which presented a critical history of Communist Party rule.

The Sheng ' an waiji ( 升庵外集 ) collection by the poet Yang Shen ( 楊慎, 1488 – 1559 ) gives different 5th and 9th names for the dragon's nine children: the taotie ( 饕餮 ), which loves to eat and is found on food-related wares, and the jiaotu ( 椒圖 ), which looks like a conch or clam, does not like to be disturbed, and is used on the front door or the doorstep.

The house's publishing schedule slowed considerably between 2000-2006, with only nine books issued — In the Stone House by Barry N. Malzberg ( 2000 ); Book of the Dead by E. Hoffmann Price ( a collection of memoirs of writers known by Price, 2001 ); Arkham House's Masters of Horror ( ed.

On Sunday, June 13, 1971, the Times published the first of nine excerpts and commentaries on the 7, 000 page collection.

Anders Tidström, a disciple of pioneering botanist and taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus, met the nine year old Dahl during his second journey through Västergötlan in 1760, and mentions in his travel diary both young Anders ' interest in botany, and his collection of plants ( received from his uncle Anders Silvius, a chemist in Skara ).

The Ennead (, meaning a collection of nine things ) was a group of

The permanent collection of the foundation is based primarily on nine private collections: Solomon R. Guggenheim ’ s collection of non-objective paintings ; Karl Nierendorf ’ s collection of German expressionism and early abstract expressionism ; Katherine S. Dreier's gift of paintings and sculptures ; Peggy Guggenheim ’ s collection, concentrating on abstraction and surrealism ; Justin K. and Hilde Thannhauser ’ s collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modern masterpieces ; part of Hilla von Rebay's collection ; Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's holdings of American minimalist, post-minimalist, environmental and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s ; a collection of photographs and mixed media from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ; and the Bohen Foundation's collection of film, video, photography and new media.

The video game Enter the Matrix, which was released on May 15, and a collection of nine animated shorts, The Animatrix, which was released on June 3, supported and expanded the storyline of the movie.

Of his Daphniaca, a collection of short poems in hexameter on ' love and romance ' in nine books, only the introduction has survived.

Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty-eight maps of European lands, and of Asia, Africa, Tartary and Egypt, gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius ’ friend and patron, Gilles Hooftman, lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed in Rome, eight or nine only in the Southern Netherlands.

Suede's next venture was Sci-Fi Lullabies, a collection of b-sides, which reached number nine on the UK Album Chart.

Ultimately he seems to have got free access to the collection, which he catalogued — the work of almost a whole summer, for which the curators rewarded him with nine guilders.

The Museum's collection has over 680 artefacts in nine galleries occupying some 480 square metres.

This collection included sixty-eight paintings by various artists: Camille Pissarro ( nineteen ), Claude Monet ( fourteen ), Pierre-Auguste Renoir ( ten ), Alfred Sisley ( nine ), Edgar Degas ( seven ), Paul Cézanne ( five ), and Édouard Manet ( four ).

The library ’ s collection consists of more than 40, 000 volumes, located in a great hall fifty-four meters in length, nine meters wide and ten meters tall with marble floors and beautifully carved wood shelves.

In 1593 appeared Idea: The Shepherd's Garland, a collection of nine pastorals, in which he celebrated his own love-sorrows under the poetic name of Rowland.

Cornell spent a two-year period between the ages of nine and eleven solidly listening to The Beatles after finding a large collection of Beatles records abandoned in the basement of a neighbor's house.

How about a rock collection, or a collection of leaves from different trees or shrubs and in different colors??

The Heritage collection, to be shown by Sanger-Harris and Anderson's Studio, has perhaps more different types of woods and decorations than any one manufacturer ever assembled together at one time.

In statistics, analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) is a collection of statistical models, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance in a particular variable is partitioned into components attributable to different sources of variation.

* Analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) – a collection of statistical models and their associated procedures which compare means by splitting the overall observed variance into different parts

Alpha decay is by far the most common form of cluster decay where the parent atom ejects a defined daughter collection of nucleons, leaving another defined product behind ( in nuclear fission, a number of different pairs of daughters of approximately equal size are formed ).

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

Each issue is a collection of contributions from different authors, often featuring game design discussions, rules variants, write-ups of game sessions, reviews, and comments on others contributions.

Bliss wanted a classification system that would provide distinct rules yet still be adaptable to whatever kind of collection a library might have, as different libraries have different needs.

* Mint mark collections: Many collectors consider different mint marks significant enough to justify representation in their collection.

In one sequence, Marker repeats the same collection of shots three times with different commentary: the first one praising the Soviet Union, the second denouncing it, and the third taking an objective stance.

When appropriate, the second line may begin with a ' form ' number — e. g., 1 stands for history and criticism of a subject, 2 for a bibliography, 5 for a dictionary, 6 for an atlas or maps, 7 for a periodical, 8 for a society or university publication, 9 for a collection of works by different authors.

This led the Ottoman government to agree to an arrangement whereby the different nahiyes ( districts ) of the Chouf would be granted in iltizam (" fiscal concession ") to one of the region's amirs, or leading chiefs, leaving the maintenance of law and order and the collection of its taxes in the area in the hands of the appointed amir.

Analysis of the design of experiments was built on the foundation of the analysis of variance, a collection of models in which the observed variance is partitioned into components due to different factors which are estimated or tested.

The Human Boy was a collection of schoolboy stories in the same genre as say, Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co., though different in mood and style.

By 1970 several different techniques had been shown to perform well on small text corpora such as the Cranfield collection ( several thousand documents ).

Widely studied are the Rabboth ( great commentaries ), a collection of ten midrashim on different books of the Bible.

Oral historians in different countries have approached the collection, analysis, and dissemination of oral history in different modes.

A huge collection of different kinds of spray cans, markers, paints and inks in the underground graffiti shop.

; Out-of-order delivery: When a collection of related packets is routed through a network, different packets may take different routes, each resulting in a different delay.