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This piece of apparently routine work proved very fruitful — it led to the discovery that all the stars of very faint absolute magnitude were of spectral class M. In conversation on this subject ( as I recall it ), I asked Pickering about certain other faint stars, not on my list, mentioning in particular 40 Eridani B. Characteristically, he sent a note to the Observatory office and before long the answer came ( I think from Mrs Fleming ) that the spectrum of this star was A. I knew enough about it, even in these paleozoic days, to realize at once that there was an extreme inconsistency between what we would then have called " possible " values of the surface brightness and density.
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piece and apparently
Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;
Rio Bravo, apparently a Western-everyone wears a cowboy hat-is a comedy conversation piece.
Ironically, South America's two greatest victims of war and annexation in the previous century were ready to face each other in another bout of bloody combat, this time over a piece of apparently worthless, desolate wilderness.
In the NES game DuckTales 2, Scrooge and his nephews found a piece of a treasure map that apparently belonged to Fergus.
She apparently blew her nose into the handkerchief and then threw the piece of cloth into a nearby fireplace, much to the shock of the court.
He apparently makes most of his living by blackmailing adulterous husbands and wives, and he takes an obvious sadistic pleasure in violence, whether he's beating up thugs sent to kill him, breaking an informant's treasured record collection, or roughing up a coroner who's slow to part with a piece of information.
After he had established the identity of the piece being performed, Dawson would introduce hideously wrong notes ( yet not to the extent of destroying the identity of the tune ) without appearing to realise that he had done so, meanwhile smiling unctuously and apparently relishing the accuracy and soul of his own performance.
Finally, as the investigation was winding down with Fall apparently innocent, Walsh uncovered a piece of evidence Fall had forgotten to cover up: Doheny's $ 100, 000 loan to Fall.
Although a concerto is usually a piece of music for one or more solo instruments accompanied by a full orchestra, several composers have written works with the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra.
The damage apparently was caused by a piece of dirt that had rolled through the length of the reel, starting with a scene in which York's character has a confrontation with a pro-Nazi boarding house resident, and cut into the emulsion.
For example, a piece apparently standing on its initial square may turn out to actually be a promoted pawn ( this is known as the Pronkin theme ).
He apparently sold spicy shortbread to the citizens of Upper Armley for 1d a piece.
However, one dolphin, named Kelly, has apparently learned a way to get more fish, by hoarding the trash under a rock at the bottom of the pool and bringing it up one small piece at a time.
Just several months later Riga-based chess grandmaster Mikhail Tal was heard praising the author of " Bolshoy Karetny " and Anna Akhmatova ( in a conversation with Joseph Brodsky ) was quoting Vysotsky's number " I was the soul of a bad company ..." taking it apparently for some brilliant piece of anonymous street folklore.
In 1995, with producer and friend Joanna Scanlan, Swinton developed a performance / installation live art piece in the Serpentine Gallery, London, where she was on display to the public for a week, asleep or apparently so, in a glass case, as a piece of performance art.
Video later showed Kerry pulling something out of his jacket, apparently a piece of paper, in violation of the MOU.
Around 20 seconds later, a smaller piece of foam separated from the ET and apparently struck the orbiter's right wing.
First, the show's Hickory Dickory Dock theme song was replaced by a jazzy electric guitar piece ( with no lyrics ) to the tune of the song Bicycle Built For Two, over footage of a field of daisies ( daisies apparently being a theme of the new sponsor, " Fresh as a daisy ").
This vital piece of information was put on hold when John Sheridan apparently died on the Shadow homeworld allowing the Vorlons to put their secret plans and war fleet into action.
The handwriting looks like that of a child, and apparently the piece is an attempt to create a bass line for a given melody.
Beethoven apparently composed his piece " Wellington's Victory " ( Op.
Cohen apparently liked the song enough that he included it in his 1983 experimental art film, I Am a Hotel, as the sole non-acoustic piece alongside four other songs which have generally enjoyed more positive fan response, " Suzanne ," " Chelsea Hotel # 2 ," " The Guests ," and " The Gypsy's Wife.
Despite the name no solid food was ever featured in this piece ( although Golden Grahams also featured elsewhere on the show several times, apparently to ensure this unloved cereal did not go unnoticed in the UK ).
piece and routine
That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.
A " gag " is a very short piece of clown comedy which when repeated within a bit or routine may become a " running gag ".
This is the first time ADSR samples are heard on the Atari ST, unfortunately only one more piece of music is ever written using this routine, albeit the 16 minute long Knuckle Busters tune by Rob Hubbard.
Pejorative connotations started in this epoch exemplified by new German expressions such as " Virtuosenmachwerk " ( piece of routine display ).
* Richard Serra's minimalist piece Tilted Arc was removed from a New York City plaza in 1989 after office workers complained their work routine was disrupted by the piece.
The application program must keep track of which memory bank holds a required piece of data, and then call the bank-switching routine to make that bank active.
" Virgil Thomson found this ability frustrating: " Anyone who allowed her in any piece to tell him what to do next would see that piece ruined before his eyes by the application of routine recipes and bromides from standard repertory.
He also appeared on an episode of CHiPs during the first season in 1977, where he plays a distraught motorist who, during a routine traffic stop, proceeds to destroy his car in frustration by pulling it apart piece by piece.
It was not until 2005 that he discovered an appropriate boulder, when a routine blast at Stone Valley Quarry in Riverside County, California, produced the piece he had imagined, and the project started coming together.
American gymnast Alicia Sacramone used an excerpt of the piece for her floor routine in international competition, including the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, while teammate Samantha Peszek set her routine to their rendition of " Whatever Lola Wants ".
For the British police who supervise his execution, the hanging is an unpleasant but routine piece of business.
Digital Spy gave it a favorable review, highlighting it by saying " Put it this way ... this piece is a wee bit late because it's hard to type while re-enacting the ' Hand On Your Heart ' dance routine.
piece and work
Over these voluntary agencies, in 1917-18, the CTCA served as a co-ordinating body in carrying out what Survey called `` the most stupendous piece of social work in modern times ''.
Curious as to what made it work, he built a crude model of it in wood, and filed a piece of steel until he succeeded in making a metal pickup for the thread, enabling the crude machine to take stitches.
If an expensive and specialized piece of machinery is needed -- such as a spray rig, a combine, or a binder -- it is better to pay someone with a machine to do the work.
Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.
When the work on the ungainly sea god was finished, Michelangelo scoffed at Ammannati that he had ruined a beautiful piece of marble: " Ammannati, Ammanato, che bell ' marmo hai rovinato!
A PAS is a sponsored piece of work allowing organizations flexibility in the rapid creation of a standard while also allowing for a greater degree of control over the document's development.
An example of this is a Certified Public Accountant ( CPA ), which would not be certified for just one corporation or one piece of accountancy software but for general work in the profession.
When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.
However a well-crafted study can be a piece of art in its own right, and many hours of careful work can go into completing a study.
In September Thomas and Caitlin moved to New Quay in West Wales which inspired Thomas to pen the radio piece Quite Early One Morning, a sketch for his later work, Under Milk Wood.
This piece stands today as " a moving testimony to what can be achieved when an artist's political convictions are directly manifested in his work ".
The HDL form is more suited to work with large structures because it's possible to just specify them numerically rather than having to draw every piece by hand.
The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature where it becomes easier to shape, or to the point where work hardening no longer occurs.
Drop forging is a process used to shape metal into complex shapes by dropping a heavy hammer with a die on its face onto the work piece.
Several fiction writers use the technique of inventing a piece of literature or non-fiction and referring to this work as if it actually existed, typically by quoting from the work.
Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.
After being employed by a master for several years, and after producing a qualifying piece of work, the apprentice was granted the rank of journeyman and was given documents ( letters or certificates from his master and / or the guild itself ) which certified him as a journeyman and entitled him to travel to other towns and countries to learn the art from other masters.
The most famous work in OHG is the Hildebrandslied, a short piece of Germanic alliterative heroic verse which besides the Muspilli is the sole survivor of what must have been a vast oral tradition.
Writing in the Brooklyn Eagle, drama critic Arthur Pollock called it " an unusual piece of work by a director not nearly so well-known as he should be.
Each piece is not a copy but an original since it is not a reproduction of another work of art and is technically known as an impression.
Very nearly every reader will agree, no doubt, that a more disciplined and less prodigal piece of work would have more nearly done justice to the subject-matter.
Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.
Hamlet's " What a piece of work is a man " echoes many of Montaigne's ideas, but scholars disagree whether Shakespeare drew directly from Montaigne or whether both men were simply reacting similarly to the spirit of the times.
All of these must be in place for the mousetrap to work, as the removal of any one piece destroys the function of the mousetrap.
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