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is and list
the list is, obviously, endless.
In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.
Such a list must naturally be selective, and the treatment of each man is brief, for I am interested only in their general ideas on the moral measure of literature.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.
Each diagram is accompanied by a `` dog chart '', a list of the levers that show which other levers any particular lever will lock if pulled.
We accomplish this by compiling a list of text forms as text is read by the computer.
Also, the dictionary is divided into at least two parts: the list of dictionary forms and the file of information that pertains to these forms.
The first is compiling a list of text forms, assigning an information cell to each, and replacing text occurrences with the information cell assigned to the form of each occurrence.
For this step the computer memory is separated into three regions: cells in the W-region are used for storage of the forms in the text-form list ; ;
If cell Af has not previously been assigned as the information cell of a form in the text-form list, it is now assigned as the information cell of Af.
Hence, when the address Af is computed from Af, the cell Af and all Y-cells in its chain must be inspected to determine whether Af is already in the form list or whether it should be added to the form list and the chain.
Text reading is terminated when a pre-determined number of forms have been stored in the text-form list.
Each form represented by the dictionary is looked up in the text-form list.
Each dictionary form is looked up in the text-form list by the same method used to look up a new text occurrence in the form list during text reading.
If cell Af is not an information cell we conclude that the i-th dictionary form is not in the text list.
These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.
It is the urge to obtain a list as free of geographical and cultural conditioning as possible.
It is the hope of attaining a list of items of universal occurrence.
The practical operational problem of lexicostatistics is the establishment of a basic list of items of meaning against which the particular forms or terms of languages can be matched as the medium of comparison.

is and historical
The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.
At that point we reach the `` closed '' historical situation: the situation in which man is no longer free to return to a status quo ante.
but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.
It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.
In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
A student organization, Bottega, is open to any student interested in increasing his understanding and appreciation of the graphic and ceramic arts in their historical, technical, and productive contexts.
The quest of the historical Homer is likely never to have further success ; ;
`` It is not an individual that is in the dock at this historical trial '' -- said Ben Gurion, `` and not the Nazi regime alone -- but anti-Semitism throughout history ''.
The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.
Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.
Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.
The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.
One of Achill's most famous historical sites is that of the Achill Mission or ' the Colony ' at Dugort.
Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.
Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures.
The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.
Gervase and Protase — and is one of the oldest extant bodies of historical personages known outside Egypt.
Amber is discussed by Theophrastus, possibly the first historical mention of the material, in the 4th century BC.
Baltic amber or succinite ( historically documented as Prussian amber ) is found as irregular nodules in marine glauconitic sand, known as blue earth, occurring in the Lower Oligocene strata of Sambia in Prussia ( in historical sources also referred to as Glaesaria ).
The historical view, of course, is mainly fantastical.

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