Although Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies through extensive reading, not fieldwork, mainly the Classics ( literature and history of Greece and Rome ), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries, travelers, and contemporaneous ethnologists.

The game was very close, and in the fourth quarter Walsh called a series of running plays as the 49ers marched down the field against the Cowboys prevent defense, which had been expecting the 49ers to mainly pass.

) This was mainly due to the difficulty of supplying armies in the field, or conducting night operations.

* The HIGFET ( heterostructure insulated gate field effect transisitor ), is used mainly in research now.

Thousands of different programming languages have been created, mainly in the computer field, with many more being created every year.

Thousands of different programming languages have been created, mainly in the computing field.

Geomorphology as a field has several sub-fields that deal with the specific landforms of various environments e. g. desert geomorphology and fluvial geomorphology, however, these sub-fields are united by the core processes which cause them ; mainly tectonic or climatic processes.

The unprepared Soviet forces suffered much damage in the field because of mediocre officers, partial mobilization, an incomplete reorganization and mainly because they were arranged to attack Central Europe, and not to defend Soviet territory.

WMCF concerns itself mainly with proposing and establishing an alternative view of mathematics, one grounding the field in the realities of human biology and experience.

Dr. Jürg P. Blum, defined the term environmental finance ( Dissertation: Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Corporate Economic Performance ..... 1994 at USIU ) as a fairly new field, " concerned mainly with finance and investment regarding the ecological environment.

* Don Cook ( born May 25, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas ) is an American record producer and songwriter whose work is mainly in the field of country music.

Although we mainly notice electricity during thunderstorms, there is always a downward electric field near the surface that averages.

A major branch of genomics is still concerned with sequencing the genomes of various organisms, but the knowledge of full genomes has created the possibility for the field of functional genomics, mainly concerned with patterns of gene expression during various conditions.

As such, he really is a pioneer in his field – both for his new methods and for the fact that he went against the grain of the beliefs of the time ( Shell shock was not considered a " real " illness and " cures " mainly involved electric shock, with doctors such as Lewis Yealland particularly keen on this form of " treatment ").

There are about 30 to 40 species of Ulmus ( elm ); the ambiguity in number results from difficulty in delineating species, owing to the ease of hybridization between them and the development of local seed-sterile vegetatively propagated microspecies in some areas, mainly in the field elm ( Ulmus minor ) group.

In a less formal sense, the word is used for high-profile non-diplomatic representative of various entities ( rarely states ), mainly cultural and charitable organizations, often as willing figureheads to attract media attention, e. g. film and pop stars make appeals to the public at large for UNESCO activities ( see UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors ), sometimes during press-swarmed visits in the field.

This analysis method is mainly used in the field of safety engineering and Reliability engineering to determine the probability of a safety accident or a particular system level ( functional ) failure.

In the beginning, IF Odd was mainly focused on gymnastics, and also had sections for Nordic skiing and track and field.

The actual thrust is produced by exhausting a beam of mainly singly-ionized cesium or rubidium atoms, produced by field evaporation at the tip of the emitter.

Agriculture, mainly field crops, orchards, and livestock ( particularly sheep ranching ,) is also important to the economy of the county.

The magnetism of ferric compounds is mainly determined by these five electrons, and their behavior depends on the number and type of ligands attached to iron, as described by ligand field theory.

Formerly a gas field, the region now mainly produces oil.

It was also used in the military as a way of sending signals on the field of battle, however fans were mainly used for social and court activities.

Originally elected as President from a field of four candidates with 42 % of the total votes, Ólafur has from the outset been a controversial figure in the office of President, an office that has mainly ceremonial functions meant to symbolise national unity and bears little responsibility for government affairs.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

He was down, hard to talk to, and far too nonchalant on the field.

Enough of his life was spent there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator in the crowd.

An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.

So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

Vernon was serviceable on the botanical field trips, but he could arrange no schedule with the cooks, and he was glad when the trips dropped off, and the botanists began to motor out by themselves.

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

The only available field that could be used near flood-ravaged Montpelier was on the Towne farm off upper Main Street, a narrow hillside where takeoffs and landings could be safely made only under light wind conditions.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.

and buggies and wagons and chugging Fords kept gathering all morning, until the edges of the field were packed thick and small boys kept scampering out on the playing field to make fun of the visitors -- whose pitcher was a formidable looking young man with the only baseball cap.

But the nickname never stuck and Gehrig was no match for Ruth in `` color '' -- which is sometimes a polite word for delinquent behavior on and off the field.