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points and second
Clearly, any line, l, of any bundle having one of these points of tangency, T, as vertex will be transformed into the entire pencil having the image of the second intersection of L and Q as vertex and lying in the plane determined by the image point and the generator of Af which is tangent to **zg at T.
the second requires that there be a line through P which meets **zg in Af points.
In 1936 the Lions visited Argentina for the second time, winning all ten of their matches and only conceding nine points in the whole tour.
The players change ends at the start of the second game ; if the match reaches a third game, they change ends both at the start of the game and when the leading player's or pair's score reaches 11 points.
Ickx finished second in the drivers ' championship, with 37 points to Jackie Stewart's 63.
During the second period, the Protestants present asked for renewed discussion on points already defined and for bishops to be released from their oaths of allegiance to the Pope.
Nonetheless, in 1960, the Browns dropped three games by a total of 10 points, finished with an 8-3-1 record and out of the playoffs for the second consecutive season.
He is followed in distant second place by Kicker Robbie Gould, Payton, with 750 points, follows in third.
Before that, dating back to 1970, writers voted for three pitchers, with the formula of 5 points for a first place vote, 3 for a second place vote and 1 for a third place vote.
He suggests at some points that the pagan deities are based on humans, but at others that they are misanthropic demons, and he cites several classical sources in support of this second hypothesis.
Earnhardt finished a career-low 12th in the points for the second time in his career, and the only time he had finished that low since joining RCR.
Although they finished second in the conference to the San Jose Sharks, the Wings became the first team in NHL history to top 100 points in nine straight seasons.
In its Round 16 match against the Kangaroos, Essendon produced one of the biggest comebacks in AFL / VFL history winning by 12 points after trailing the Kangaroos by as much as 69 points during the second quarter.
One neutral survey of 1000 departing fairgoers awarded the General Motors exhibit 39. 4 points to only 8. 5 points for second place Ford as the most interesting exhibit.
The first and second points remained dependent upon the third.
For example, children who take the very same IQ test a second time usually gain five or six points.
Tied for second with 12 points were Aron Nimzowitsch and Rudolf Spielmann.
The Book of Acts contradicts the letters of Paul on many points, such as Paul's second trip to Jerusalem for an apostolic council.
Simon's thesis is that humanity's life-style will continue to improve, and several of the points of Ehrlich's second bet may increase for wholly benign reasons.
While the Hungarian team narrowly missed winning the Bronze medal, Polgár finished 10 / 13 for the second highest points total of any player in the Olympiad and a rated performance level of 2772.
Jacksonville's 62 points and 55-point margin are the second most ever in NFL playoff history, and Fred Taylor's 90-yard run in the first quarter is the longest ever in an NFL playoff game.
( 1 ) The orbits are ellipses, with focal points ƒ < sub > 1 </ sub > and ƒ < sub > 2 </ sub > for the first planet and ƒ < sub > 1 </ sub > and ƒ < sub > 3 </ sub > for the second planet.
Mad poked fun at the tendency of readers to accuse the magazine of declining in quality at various points in its history, depending on the age of the critic, in its " Untold History of Mad Magazine ," a self-referential faux history in the 400th issue which joked: " The second issue of Mad goes on sale on December 9, 1952.

points and front
General Edmund Allenby used infantry, to successfully attack the strong Ottoman front line, under cover of an artillery barrage. This creeping barrage lifted and moved forward at a rate of between 50 yards ( 46 m ), 75 yards ( 69 m ) and 100 yards ( 91 m ) per minute, while 4. 5-inch howitzers fired on points beyond the barrage augmented by the guns of two destroyers firing from the Mediterranean Sea.
The ignition system of these engines comprised three independent sets of points and coils, one for each cylinder, with the points mounted in a cluster around a single lobed cam at the front end of the crank shaft.
In his response, Achilles points out that while Hector was terrorizing the Greek forces now, while he himself had fought in their front lines, Hector had ' no wish ' to take his force far beyond the walls and out from the Skiaian Gate and nearby oak tree.
In 2012, Sydney Swans took the premiership cup defeating Hawthorn by 10 points front of 99, 683 people at the MCG, the largest crowd the Swans had ever played in front of.
This time, no team went through the group stage without giving up points, but Russia and Sweden were to face off once again ; this time in the semi-final, and Russia got revenge with a 24 – 21 win in front of 650 spectators.
Because of its length ( 75 to 105 cm ) the instrument was generally made with a double curve, having the finger-holes on the inside facet of the lower bend ; thus in playing position the bell points downwards to the front, not outwards to the side as in the treble.
As the belt passes in front of the lower comb, it receives negative charge that escapes from its points due to the influence of the electric field around the lower pulley, which ionizes the air at the points.
Reynolds also talks about Caesar and his “ Colossus ” epithet, which he points out has its obvious connotations of power and manliness, but also lesser known connotations of an outward glorious front and inward chaos.
Averaging 93. 2 points per game in the Finals series, the Mercury beat Detroit on their home floor in front of 22, 076 fans in game five to claim their first ever WNBA title.
On April 14, 1935, known as " Black Sunday ", 20 of the worst " black blizzards " occurred throughout the Dust Bowl, causing extensive damage and turning the day to night ; witnesses reported they could not see five feet in front of them at certain points.
Thus, in ten days of fighting, on nearly a front, the French 6th Army had progressed as far as six miles ( 10 km ) at points.
Three more points are then added in front ( in the direction Lisa is facing ), with two more behind it.
In the Simpsons and Futurama cross-over comic, Fry points out the cardboard cutout in the front of the store looks like his friend, Bender ( to which Comic Book Guy says that he and Bart are pulling an obvious Back to the Future cliche while riding on flying skateboards ).
For an optical system in air, the effective focal length gives the distance from the front and rear principal planes to the corresponding focal points.
By this stage, Nazi Germany had very little captured land remaining, apart from Norway, Denmark, and few strong points on the western front including the Channel Islands.
In real action first 3-4 ranks will hold their pikes at " charge " ( their points projecting forward from the formation front ), and those behind will hold weapons at " port " ( to avoid injuring front rank friendlies with their points ).
Played in front of an enduring record crowd of 121, 696, Collingwood dominated early to lead by 44 points at half time, but Carlton kicked seven goals in fifteen minutes after half time to narrow the margin to only three points ; after a close final quarter, Carlton won its tenth VFL premiership with a ten point victory.

points and on
Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.
He has designed a matching backdrop and costumes of points of color on white for Mr. Cunningham's Summerspace, so that dancers and background merge into a shimmering unity.
`` Life '' points out that `` everybody uses this path '', and starts to ride on.
For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.
He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.
Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.
On this issue, then, as on so many in these months, Steele and Swift took rigidly opposed points of view.
Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.
We should avoid these congestion points or, putting it another way, keep cars starting and ending on the East side of the river -- on the East side.
The scientists, in and out of government, do not agree on some of the most vital points, at least publicly.
The lock insures that the points are thrown all the way with no chance that a wheel flange will snag on a partly thrown point.
A square inscribed in a curve C means a square with its four corner points on the curve, though it may not lie entirely in the interior of C.
Each point on C, as a vertex, may possess a finite number of corresponding diagonal points by the above construction.
The set of intersections of Af, the rotated curve, with the original curve C consists of just the set of forward corner points on C corresponding to the vertex at Af, plus the vertex itself.
We turn now to the set of tangent points on the graph.
The fact that there can not be any limit points of the set except in closed intervals follows from the argument used in Lemma 1, namely, that near any tangent point in the C-plane the curves C and Af are analytic, and therefore the difference between them must be a monotone function in some neighborhood on either side of the tangent point.
In the neighborhood of an end point of an interval of tangent points in the f-plane the function is two-valued or no-valued on one side, and is a single-valued function consisting entirely of tangent points on the other side.
Now Af and Af must both be tangent points on the T component in the f-plane ; ;
The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.
We must now show that on some component of the graph there exist two points for which the corresponding diagonal points in the C-plane are on opposite sides of C.

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