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is and actually
It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
What appears here is shorter than what he actually said but very close to his own words.
What one actually remembers is its greenness.
The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.
Yet even in the more extreme of such cases we seldom go very far astray in guessing what his age actually is.
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
In covert socialism -- toward which America is moving -- private enterprise retains the ownership title to industries but government thru direct intervention and excessive regulations actually controls them.
A minor is subject to tax on his own earnings even though his parent may, under local law, have the right to them and might actually have received the money.
whose chord is one hundred and sixty feet, and whose vortex is forty feet ( it was actually 37 feet ) above the high-water mark.
The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.
It is interesting that a 1: 1 correspondence can be established between the lines of two such pencils, so that in a sense a unique image can actually be assigned to each tangent.
Then, too, the utmost clinical flexibility is necessary in judiciously combining carefully timed family-oriented home visits, single and group office interviews, and appropriate telephone follow-up calls, if the worker is to be genuinely accessible and if the predicted unhealthy outcome is to be actually averted in accordance with the principles of preventive intervention.
Perhaps the very important question -- What is, then, exactly the role of kinesthetic sensations in the patient's ability to recognize forms and shapes by means of the tracing movements when he is actually looking at things??
And there are now many millions of workers for whom the factory with the big parking lot, which can be reached by driving across or against the usual pattern of rush hour traffic and grille-route bus lines, is actually more convenient than the walk-to factory.
Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.
Another example is his very infrequent use of the large amount of data from surveys designed to discover what and how people actually do feel and think on a broad range of topics: he cites such survey-type findings just three times.
The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

is and dangerous
One way to determine whether we have so dangerous a technology would be to check the strength of our society's organs to see if their functioning is as healthy as before.
When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.
Mortality is the pacing of a brief and dangerous watch, and to all sentinels, whether at Elsinore or on the battlements at Mycenae, the coming of dawn has its breath of miracle.
It was responsible and sometimes dangerous work because the thieving is awful in the port of New York.
There is a workable alternative to this potentially dangerous and harmful C. & O. - B. & O. merger scheme '' --
Certainly, one of the best ways of warning the world against anti-Semitism is to demonstrate its workings as a dangerous weapon.
I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.
What I find appalling -- and really dangerous -- is the American assumption that the Negro is so contented with his lot here that only the cynical agents of a foreign power can rouse him to protest.
Already many an American knows his count, and rejoices or worries depending on whether it is nearer 180 ( safe ) or 250 ( dangerous ).
Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.
The dust created through the grinding and cutting of abalone shell is dangerous ; appropriate safeguards must be taken to protect people from inhaling these particles.
Dominican amber, especially Dominican blue amber, is mined through bell pitting, which is dangerous due to the risk of tunnel collapse.
Spiders, for instance, being relatively small, don ’ t fit the usual criterion for a threat in the animal kingdom where size is a factor, but nearly all species are venomous, and although rarely dangerous to humans, some species are dangerous.
However, this theory is undermined by the disproportional fear of spiders in comparison to other, potentially dangerous creatures that were present during Homo sapiens environment of evolutionary adaptiveness.
It is clear that widespread respect was paid to animals as the abode of dead ancestors, and much of the cults to dangerous animals is traceable to this principle ; though there is no need to attribute an animistic origin to it.
It is unsafe to handle, as sulfuric acid, even if dilute, is dangerous.
Armour or armor ( see spelling differences ) is protective covering used to prevent damage from being inflicted to an object, individual or a vehicle through use of direct contact weapons or projectiles, usually during combat, or from damage caused by a potentially dangerous environment or action ( e. g., cycling, construction sites, etc .).
While trying to swim across the dangerous Euphrates, Abd al-Rahman is said to have become separated from his brother Yahiya, who began swimming back towards the horsemen, possibly from fear of drowning.
It is a highly dangerous point for ship navigation.

is and .
`` This is a mighty empty country '', Morgan said.
This is the Rafter Aj.
Laurel is gone, my men are gone, Ed is dead -- and you come to me, to help me.
But California is where we're goin ''.
Clayton is with him, takin him out of the valley.
His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.
California is too far, he thought.
`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.
My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.
`` Gray Eyes is back,, Montero said.
`` This is Mitchell Barton.
That's really all he's got, all he is.
that is, to show no curiosity whatsoever.
`` But to take him and leave his mother behind is not good ''.
`` Exterminatin' cow thieves is just a business proposition with me '', he'd blandly announce.
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.

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