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and it gave Miriam Noel a fund of energy like that of a person inspired to complete some great and universal work of art.
Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.
These specialists, I learned, have done a great deal of work to improve the size and health of the plants and the resulting flowers.
General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.
Toward the end of the semester's work, he interviewed every married class member at great length.
Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.
This means that a great many academically talented girls are discouraged from pursuing graduate work of a more demanding nature.
It is significant that the Catskills, which used to be the summer playground for older teen-agers, a kind of summer suburb of New York, no longer attracts them in great numbers -- except for those who work there as waiters, bus boys, or counselors in the day camps.
Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.
It had come as no great surprise to Matson that the hot water in the showers didn't work, that Loren Severe had thrown up all over the stairs, or that some thieving bastard of a cop had walked off with his cigarettes.
It makes my work a great deal easier to be able to pray for the Lord's guidance while ministering to the physical needs of my patients.
It combines qualities that are seldom found in one work: Scrupulous scholarship, a fund of personal experience, a sense of drama and characterization and a broad grasp of the era's great historical issues.
His chief work on penance, the Liber poenitenitalis dedicated to Henry de Sully, exercised great influence on the many manuals of penance produced as a result of the Fourth Lateran Council.
His work is marked by great elegance and an awareness of geometrical principles in design.
He was essentially a theorist, and his great merit lay in the capacity of taking over experimental work that others had carried out — without always adequately recognizing their claims — and by a rigorous logical procedure, reinforced by his own quantitative experiments, of expounding the true explanation of the results.
He now contemplated a great work, a colossal statue of Religion.
The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.
The later Neapolitan operas ( L ' amor volubile e tiranno 1709 ; La principessa fedele 1710 ; Tigrane, 1714, & c .) are showy and effective rather than profoundly emotional ; the instrumentation marks a great advance on previous work, since the main duty of accompanying the voice is thrown upon the string quartet, the harpsichord being reserved exclusively for the noisy instrumental ritornelli.
However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
This last great work, the Four Apostles, was given by Dürer to the City of Nuremberg — although he was given 100 guilders in return.
A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.
Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.
The author of the work identifies himself in the text as " John " and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean, when he " heard a great voice " instructing him to write the book.
She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.

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`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.
It is a great undulating surface covered with plaster fragments of colored glass discs combined with 330 rounds of polychrome pottery.
Often the training period-the costs of which are in great part covered by the initial fee-is too short in cases where it is necessary to operate complicated equipment, and the franchisee has to learn on his own from instruction manuals.
In the classical manuals of Islamic jurisprudence, the rules associated with armed warfare are covered at great length.
Derived from the Tswana word Kgala, meaning " the great thirst ", or Khalagari, Kgalagadi or Kalagare, meaning " a waterless place ", the Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water.
As to longitude, I declare that I found so much difficulty in determining it that I was put to great pains to ascertain the east-west distance I had covered.
The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.
the highlands of the central Sahara beyond the Libyan desert ,... in the great massifs of the Tibesti and the Hoggar, the mountaintops, today bare rock, were covered at this period with forests of oak and walnut, lime, alder and elm.
The Ancient Egyptians covered the faces of pyramids with polished white limestone, containing great quantities of fossilized seashells .< ref > Viegas, J., Pyramids packed with fossil shells, ABC News in Science, < www. abc. net. au / science / articles / 2008 / 04 / 28 / 2229383. htm ></ ref > Many of the facing stones have fallen or have been removed and used to build the mosques of Cairo.
It is mostly covered by tropical rain forest, containing a great diversity of flora and fauna that, for the most part, are increasingly threatened by new development.
However, The Modern Lovers was given an enthusiastic critical reception, with critic Ira Robbins hailing it as " one of the truly great art rock albums of all time ," and it influenced numerous aspiring punk rock musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sex Pistols ( who covered " Roadrunner " on The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle ).
The great Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a covered passage that connects Piazza del Duomo, Milan to the square opposite of La Scala opera house, was built by architect Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877 to celebrate Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of reunited Italy.
At one of these villages is a spring, where water flows out from under a stone, but in no great abundance ; and it is conducted by a channel, cut in the ground, to a place outside the town ( of Hebron ), where they have constructed a covered tank for collecting the water ... The Sanctuary ( Mashad ), stands on the southern border of the town .... it is enclosed by four walls.
The work is often compared to the other great historical novel which covered the Napoleonic wars: Tolstoy's War and Peace.
* The Palazzo della Ragione, with its great hall on the upper floor, is reputed to have the largest roof unsupported by columns in Europe ; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length, its breadth, and its height ; the walls are covered with allegorical frescoes ; the building stands upon arches, and the upper storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the basilica of Vicenza.
The broad alluvial plains found on the coast between Mahajanga ( Majunga ) and Toliara ( Tuléar ), which are believed to have great agricultural potential, are thinly inhabited, in many places covered with swamps of Madagascar mangroves, and remain largely unexplored, although they are the subject of mineral and hydrocarbon exploration activity.
Tile covered concrete quickly supplanted marble as the primary building material and more daring buildings soon followed, with great pillars supporting broad arches and domes rather than dense lines of columns suspending flat architraves.
Most commuting is undertaken by personal aircraft, allowing great distances to be covered in little time.
Then came the great northeastern gap, although its back was mostly covered by thick forest of the Bois d ' Orléans.
During the 1920s, her salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus, with walls covered by avant-garde paintings, attracted many of the great writers of the time, including Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Thornton Wilder, and Sherwood Anderson.
Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants.
They had lived in the great woods that covered most of Eriador, and when the Númenóreans started to chop these woods down to build their ships in the Second Age, the Dúnedain of Númenor earned the hostility of the Dunlendings.
As the administrative law of the Netherlands is so complex, it was deemed impossible to incorporate it in a single code, but its general rules must be covered in a general code ( Subarticle 2 ) as has indeed gradually been done since the nineties, be it with great difficulty.
He worked with great rapidity and long hours, but he used his colours thin and covered the canvas with innumerable coats of paint.

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