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`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
It is good to know that Georgia will continue to have sufficient electrical power not only to meet the demands of normal growth but to encourage a more rapid rate of industrialization.
Fortunately, there is a nursery school which he has been able to attend, with a group of normal children.
`` I try to treat Daniel as if he were normal, though of course I realize he is far from that at present.
At the head of the CDC is an unorthodox, 39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B. Carvey Jr., whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon missiles.
These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.
This is a normal governmental procedure which reflects more accurately cost-accounting principles.
By this scheme, pulling one signal to clear locks all the other switch and signal levers in safe positions until the first signal is again restored to normal.
A tire must be inflated to its normal hot operating pressure and the car must be loaded to its operating weight when this measurement is made.
A cross-section of a normal lower human leg is shown in Fig. 8 with the various parts labeled.
The concept of the strain energy as a Gibbs function difference Af and exerting a force normal to the shearing face is compatible with the information obtained from optical birefringence studies of fluids undergoing shear.
Af appeared to be well suited for the study of these matters, since it is a normal paramagnet, with three unpaired electrons on the chromium, its crystal structure is very simple, and the unknown position of the hydrogen in the strong Af bond provides structural interest.
The Af layers are stacked normal to the ( 111 ) axis with the lower oxygens of one layer directly above the upper oxygens of the neighboring lower layer, in such a manner that the repeat is every three layers.
The bond angles and distances are all within the expected limits and the volume per oxygen is about normal.
It is very unlikely that either of these anacondas was growing at a normal rate.
the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.
In man the normal level of iodine in the diet and the level necessary to prevent development of goitre is about 100 **ymg per day.
In the presence of a low iodine intake, thyroglobulin labelled in vivo with Af is found to contain more mono-iodotyrosine than normal, the amounts of di-iodotyrosine and iodothyronines being correspondingly reduced.
Second, what is its concentration in normal circumstances and in what circumstances will this concentration depart from the normal level and in which direction??
Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.
In both conditions the emotional and perceptual sensitivity is diminished, but no depression occurs such as is seen clinically or may be produced in normal persons by drugs.

is and given
It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.
Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;
Their artistic rationale is given to the witness of unreason.
All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.
As in experience one is seized by given entities and their interrelations and is forced to respond in value feelings to them, so one is similarly seized in the mimetic presentation of images.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
Since civilizational change is the most difficult to perceive and analyze, it seldom is given adequate attention.
we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.
To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.
This is given some expression in Beardsley's notion of harmony and the resolution of indecision.
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.
There is plenty more to recommend Gorton, the facts of whose life are given in The Life And Times Of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton.
Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.
Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

is and Orosius
His interest in foreign countries is shown by the insertions which he made in his translation of Orosius.
Caesar himself mentions few place-names ; and although the battle is called after Pharsalos, four ancient writers – the author of the Bellum Alexandrinum ( 48. 1 ), Frontinus ( Strategemata 2. 3. 22 ), Eutropius ( 20 ), and Orosius ( 6. 15. 27 ) – place it specifically at Palaepharsalos.
His introduction imitates the work of Orosius, and his title is an echo of Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica.
According to Orosius, he is a native Briton of urban aristocracy.
Gregory's education was the standard Latin one of Late Antiquity, focusing on Vergil's Aeneid and Martianus Capella's Liber de Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, but also other key texts such as Orosius ' Chronicles, which his Historia is a continuation of, and Sallust, all of which works he refers to in his own.
The book is basically a historical narration focussing on the pagan peoples from the earliest time up until the time Orosius was alive.
In addition, Orosius is mentioned in letters written by Saint Augustine.
While there is no doubt regarding his surname of Orosius, there are questions regarding the use of the name " Paulus ".
Basically the problem is that it is not completely certain if he used this name or if he was simply called Orosius and whether Paulus has been added with the passing of time.
However, this idea is flawed as authors writing immediately after Orosius s death use the name Paulus.
Whatever the truth of the matter this subject has been widely studied and the most current theory is probably that of Pedro Martínez Cavero, another important Orosius scholar.
This idea is supported by Orosius s own works and two letters written by Saint Augustine, the 166th and the 169th.
* Originated in La Coruña ( Brigantia ): this is a relatively new theory solely based on the fact that Orosius twice mentioned it in the geographical section of his Histories.
It is known for certain that in 415 Saint Augustine referred to Paulus Orosius as " a young priest ", which means that at that time he could not have been older that 40, as he was young, and he had to be older than 30, as he was a priest.
This assumes that when Orosius met Saint Augustine he was 32 years old, that is, he had been an ordained priest for two years.
Despite the scarcity of sources, if his date of birth is accepted as that given above or at least within the window between 375 and 385 it can be seen that Orosius grew up during a period of cultural flourishing along with Hydatius and the Ávitos.
In any case, any discussion of Orosius s youth is pure speculation and conjecture because, as discussed above, there is little knowledge regarding this period of his life.
Schematic map showing all the journeys made by Paulus Orosius. It is thought that Paulus Orosius lived in Gallaecia ( northwest Hispania ) until 409, but after that time and up until 415, there is no concrete information regarding his life.
This is even confirmed by Orosius himself who states that he was pursued onto the beach from which he set sail.
What is certain is that once Orosius had left the Iberian Peninsula he was certain that his destination was Hippo ( now Annaba in Algeria ), and a meeting with Saint Augustine, who was the greatest thinker of his time.

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