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This was in turn derived from Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing invented by a 19th century Birmingham surgeon named Sampson Gamgee.
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He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.
The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.
There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.
He had dared to defy nature, to turn his back to the Lorelei, and he was punished.
If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: `` Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.
That development, in turn, formed the foundation of still more significant expansions in later years -- in gear cutting, in circular graduating, in index drilling, and in many other fields where accuracy was a paramount requirement.
Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.
Every winter a kegful of this sauce was made and placed at the end of a row of four other kegs in the cellar, so that when its turn came, it was properly mellowed.
To greet them with repulsion would turn what before was neutral into something bad ; ;
The Colonial Light and Power Company was succeeded by the Vermont Hydro-Electric Corporation, which in turn was absorbed by the Central Vermont Public Service Corporation.
Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;
Up to the turn of the century, contraception was condemned by all Christian churches as immoral, unnatural and contrary to divine law.
As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.
He said he had promised Mrs. Borden to return in time for dinner and that was close to the time when he did turn up at the Borden house.
Though the slightest yank was frequently capable of producin' results, many men assured success through a turn of the tail 'bout the saddle horn, supplemented sometimes, in the case of cattle, by a downward heave of the rider's leg upon the strainin' tail.
I hurried over to the agency heap, jumped in, started the motor and was just in time to see the car I wanted to shadow turn to the left.
I was held up a bit trying to make a left turn.
Mr. Giorgio had started to turn left off Greenville Avenue onto Cherry Hill Road when his car was struck by the Pezza car, police said.
But plain old bean soup, served daily since the turn of the century ( at the insistence of the late Sen. Fred Dubois of Idaho ), made clear to the citizenry that the Senate's stomach was in the right place.
When it was my turn, I, too, printed the truth as I knew it about Batista, and rejoiced to see his regime topple.
Along about 4:30, just when it was getting to be about time to turn the audience over and toast them on the other side, Judy came on singing, in a short-skirted blue dress with a blue and white jacket that flapped in the wind.
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But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.
The results of present observations of the thermal radio emission of the moon are consistent with the very low thermal conductivity of the surface layer which was derived from the variation in the infrared emission during eclipses ( e.g., Garstung, 1958 ).
The value derived was 16 microseconds.
this mass threshold was derived from the detector calibration and an assumed impact velocity of Af.
The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).
The second list was derived from a group of approximately 8,000 names supplied to the research team by the Aerospace Industries Association.
Its power unit, however, was derived from the reactor of the more modern American nuclear submarine Skipjack.
The Ch'an ( Zen ) sect may have derived its metaphysic from Mahayana, but its psychology was pure early Taoist.
Its citizens spoke all of the world's surviving tongues, plus a new one called Lingo, a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet of paper.
The order of the books ( or the teachings from which they are composed ) is not certain, but this list was derived from analysis of Aristotle's writings.
Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.
* That the discipline grew out of colonialism, perhaps was in league with it, and derived some of its key notions from it, consciously or not.
The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".
The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being the Latin alphabet ( which was derived from the Greek ).
The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century.
The size of the unit was chosen so that the units derived from it in the MKSA system would be conveniently sized.
The most widely accepted one suggests it was derived from the Sinhala henakandaya since the phonetic sounds are very similar.
It is unclear whether the Arabic abjad was derived from Nabatean or Syriac.
It was derived from the Phoenician letter Aleph Aleph.
Alpha was derived from aleph, which in Phoenician means " ox ".
The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.
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