Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

six days after war was declared he appointed Raymond Fosdick chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities ( the CTCA ).

and I was six days going thither and coming homewards ; ;

It was a grotesque hen, five or six feet tall.

My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.

This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.

Inside, carefully packed in straw, were six eggs, but the eye of a poultry psychologist was required to detect what scientifically valuable specimentalia lay inside ; ;

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

The Stanford Achievement Test, Form J, was administered by classroom teachers, consisting of a battery of six sub-tests: Paragraph Meaning, Word Meaning, Spelling, Language, Arithmetic Computation, and Arithmetic Reasoning.

About 300 yards up the creek was a cluster of Mexican houses containing six rooms in the form of a square.

Shot six or eight times the body was draped with Russell's pistol, belt, and cartridges.

As it was, it took the pigment well for six hours, enough for our purpose, and held it firmly in setting.

During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).

The burden of his secret was pressing down on him, as it was on Lieutenant Beckstrom and his six enlisted men.

At that moment Kipling was overwhelmed with awed amazement, suddenly recalling that these identical details of scene, action and word had occurred to him in a dream six weeks earlier.

In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.

The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

The same basic engine block can be used with different crankshafts, however, to alter the firing order ; for instance, the 90 ° V6 engine configuration, in older days sometimes derived by using six cylinders of a V8 engine with what is basically a shortened version of the V8 crankshaft, produces an engine with an inherent pulsation in the power flow due to the " missing " two cylinders.

* In Canada, the regulations regarding naming conventions for brandy are basically similar to those the United States ( provisions B. 02. 050 – 061 ), the minimum specified aging period is six months in wood ( although not necessarily oak, provision B. 02. 061. 2 ), and caramel, fruit, other botantical substances, flavourings, and flavouring preparations may also be included in a product called brandy ( provisions B. 02. 050 – 059 ).

Its modern alphabet is basically a subset of the Latin script ( with " J ", " K " and " Y " but not " W "), complemented with two diacritics and six digraphs.

Each of the six members, including their president, Berkeley's amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, arrives at an altogether different solution as to the motive and the identity of the perpetrator, and also applies different methods of detection ( basically deductive or inductive or a combination of both ).

These ships were basically divided into three groups: the " Main Body " contained the Japanese carriers — and, light carrier, and a screening force of one heavy cruiser and eight destroyers, commanded by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo in Shōkaku ; the " Vanguard Force " consisted of two battleships, three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and three destroyers, commanded by Rear Admiral Hiroaki Abe ; the " Advanced Force " contained five heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, six destroyers, and the seaplane carrier, commanded by Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō.

When the six new versions of the PSNI uniform were introduced, in March 2002, the term ' bottle green ' was used for basically the same colour to convey a less militaristic theme.

This is why we are able to distinguish basically all six billions of human beings from each other ( barring look-alikes ), and a human being from a similar species like some anthropomorphic ape, with only a quick glance.

The town is basically divided in six different areas, namely:

* " Sign Me Up " ( unreleased )-described as " basically us swearing our heads off for six minutes "

The six boards were stacked up and then interconnected along their edges, making for a very compact, but basically unrepairable module.

The county's borders became permanent in the early 14th century, when the neighbouring Torna County was formed, and they remained basically unchanged for the next six hundred years.

The proper use of the term is in reference to the ‘ soft food ’ diets which basically fall into the following six categories:

Graphics were still 8-bit, but due to the additional CD storage space available, instead of using a single palette set during gameplay, each of the six four-level sets had its own 256-color set, and there were effectively six texture sets, each of which had basically the same textures but optimized them specifically for those colors and textures most used in the four-level set.

" But I did it for six months, basically trying to ascertain whether a Canadian Mental Health Association would be useful in Northern Ontario.

The tipano core is basically two drums and four to seven transverse mouth flutes with six finger-holes.

But he soon became bored with the mechanics of filmmaking and after six weeks he came to the studio only when scenes in which he appeared were being filmed.

In 1903 the BBIC had bored six tunnels, yet the generator and transformers for the plant were waiting fifty miles away.

Indeed, in the Halma edition of Theon's presentation of The Hypotheses there is a chart setting out ( under six distinct headings ) otherwise unrelated diagrams for describing the planetary motions.

The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the American-Negro Suite and said of it, `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music, these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest.

Start by laying out the six frames and the transom on a level floor.

Institutionalization Though undoubtedly all six processes are operative within the whole social system and its subsystems, two processes that are of crucial importance to this study will be singled out for particular emphasis.

In six months O'Banion had boosted the profits to $100,000 a month -- mainly by bringing pressure to bear on fifty Chicago speak-easy proprietors to shift out to the suburb.

Even before his mind had rounded out the idea, he thrust one hand into his trousers pocket and pulled out the six slugs he had taken from the revolver.

When he attended the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade school here about six months ago, Jim became convinced that an individual can do something constructive in the ideological battle and set out to do it.

Minsky's machine proceeds sequentially through its five ( or six depending on how one counts ) instructions unless either a conditional IF – THEN GOTO or an unconditional GOTO changes program flow out of sequence.

* 1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

The six ex-Philippine SF. 260WP aircraft were taken out of service in 1993 and returned to their previous owner, although the four newly-built SF. 260WP aircraft were retained in service, and stationed at Bobo Dioulasso air base.

The side also visited Australia, losing a test but winning five out of the six non-test games.

For example, in the United Kingdom, the Companies Act 2006 requires directors of companies " to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole " and sets out the following six factors regarding a director's duty to promote success:

When the first meeting of the Fourth Duma was convened in late 1912, only one out of six Bolshevik deputies, Matvei Muranov, ( another one, Roman Malinovsky, was later exposed as an Okhrana secret police agent ) voted to break away from the Menshevik faction within the Duma on 15 December 1912.

For example, he refutes the claim made by Latsis that only 22 executions were carried out in the first six months of the Cheka's existence by providing evidence that the true number was 884 executions.

It rises from the stylobate without any base ; it is from four to six times as tall as its diameter ; it has twenty broad flutes ; the capital consists simply of a banded necking swelling out into a smooth echinus, which carries a flat square abacus ; the Doric entablature is also the heaviest, being about one-fourth the height column.

The young emerge from the burrow after about six weeks and strike out on their own within the next two weeks.

During three out of the last six quarters of Pfeiffer's tenure, the company's revenues or earnings had missed expectations.

Over the course of six to nine million years, as the Challenger Deep grew to its present depth, many of the species present in the sediment died out or were unable to adapt to the increasing water pressure and changing environment.

In an article published in 1991, William Safran set out six rules to distinguish diasporas from migrant communities.

The first book turned out to be a success, and was listed on the New York Times bestseller list for six months.

That the place was populous already is borne out by archeological evidence, which includes 23 graves and six horse burials from the sixth and seventh centuries.

Essendon won just one of its first six games in 1981 and Sheedy threatened to come out of retirement and show his players " how it was done " if their performance didn't improve.

Not surprisingly Essendon then lost four of the remaining six matches, including to wooden spooners Richmond to tumble out of contention.

On top of that, there were two instances of British troops killing civilians out of revenge or frustration, at Portobello Barracks, where six were shot and North King Street, where 15 were killed.