Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

`` The reason for that report was to settle the matter of the list.

`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.

What was the list??

The list was headed by ( Henry ) Hutton of St. John's who was matriculated from St. John's at Easter, 1625.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.

Swadesh in short was trying to develop a basic list that was universal ; ;

The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.

The primary consideration in the compilation of this list was convenience in discussing the questionnaire with company officers.

The second list was derived from a group of approximately 8,000 names supplied to the research team by the Aerospace Industries Association.

By these steps the final AIA list was reduced from 8,000 to 3,500.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

Fifty of the 100 firms were selected on a random basis from 3,500 names submitted by member companies of the Aerospace Industries Association ( AIA list ) and fifty were selected in a similar manner from a list of 1,500 names compiled by the research team from the Thomas Register ( TR list ).

J. Irwin Miller, 2nd CEO and a nephew of a Co-Founder of Cummins Inc., the Columbus-headquartered diesel engine manufacturer, instituted a program in which the Cummins company paid the architects ' fee, provided the client selected a firm from a list compiled by Miller.

Young compiled 511 wins, which is most in Major League history and 94 ahead of Walter Johnson who is second on the list.

Charles Xavier compiled a list of the Earth's most powerful mutants and plans on how to defeat them if they become a threat to the world.

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In 2009, Jones was rated second in a list of 10 best teen idols compiled by Fox News.

" To lead delegates, " Books of grievances " ( cahiers de doléances ) were compiled to list problems.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

By 1842, a list of nine elements believed to be essential to plant growth had been compiled, and the discoveries of the German botanists Julius von Sachs and Wilhelm Knop, in the years 1859-65, resulted in a development of the technique of soilless cultivation.

The book, published in 1987, asked music critics and others associated with the music industry to list their all-time top 10 albums, from which the top 100 were then compiled into one list.

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Messier was a comet hunter, and was frustrated by objects which resembled but were not comets, so he compiled a list of them, in collaboration with his assistant Pierre Méchain, to avoid wasting time on them.

For this reason, the list he compiled contains only objects found in the sky area he could observe: from the north celestial pole to a celestial latitude of about − 35. 7 °.

Several albums of Hammerstein's musicals were named to the " Songs of the Century " list as compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Corporation:

As Hans Eysenck described in his 1956 book Sense and Nonsense in Psychology, Eysenck compiled a list of political statements found in newspapers and political tracts and asked subjects to rate their agreement or disagreement with each.

The Motul Dictionary, compiled in the 16th century by an anonymous author ( although attributed to Fray Antonio de Ciudad Real ), contains a list of stars originally observed by the ancient Mayas.

In the list of the " World's 50 most delicious foods ", compiled by CNN in 2011, som tam stands at place 46, nam tok mu at 19, tom yam kung on 8, and massaman curry stands on first place as most delicious food in the world.

A fuller list of objects is being compiled in the List of trans-Neptunian objects.

It has three cars in the top 10 list of best-selling cars of all time compiled by the website 24 / 7 Wall St: the Volkswagen Golf, the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Volkswagen Passat.

Over time it became custom to recite a list of 99 Names, compiled by al-Walid ibn Muslim as an addendum to the hadith.

Mahmoud Abdel-Razek ( 2005 ) compiled an alternative list, endorsing only 69 from the list of al-Walid.

Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.

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.

Altogether, the list will give us considerable variety in attitudes and some typical ones, for these critics range all the way from censors to those who consider art above ethics, all the way from Plato to Poe.

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.

) The full forms can be derived from such information just prior to the lookup of the form in the text-form 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.

Each source selected from its approved bidders list about 200 firms which it believed to be small businesses that participated in the production of weapons and weapon support systems.

The remaining names were then checked against the Thomas Register list ( see below ) and duplicate names were removed from the AIA lists.