It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.

It has been the custom for most universities to stretch the blanket of accreditation for their liberal arts school to cover the shivering body of their fine arts department.

Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.

Some remained in the Wollman enclosure, fortified with raincoats or with newspapers to cover their heads.

Franz Boas publicly objected to US participation in World War I, and after the war he published a brief expose and condemnation of the participation of several American archaeologists in espionage in Mexico under their cover as scientists.

Newly hatched tadpoles soon develop gill pouches which cover the gills and their lungs develop early and are used as accessory breathing organs, the tadpoles rising to the water surface to gulp air.

Bowra's colleagues made haste to cover their private parts ; Bowra merely covered his head.

The Danes, however, broke their word and, after killing all the hostages, slipped away under cover of night to Exeter in Devon.

The program's goal was to defoliate forested and rural land, depriving guerrillas of cover ; another goal was to induce forced draft urbanization, destroying the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside, and forcing them to flee to the U. S. dominated cities, thus depriving the guerrillas of their rural support base and food supply.

Additionally, because they consider harsh words to be a form of violence, they often keep a cloth to ritually cover their mouth, as a reminder not to allow violence in their speech.

His disputations prior to his becoming a Franciscan cover over 1, 600 pages in their modern edition.

How do you do ?," Capp sardonically congratulated Lennon and Ono on their Two Virgins nude album cover: " I think that everybody owes it to the world to prove they have pubic hair.

Any given bookmaker will weight their odds so that no one customer can cover all outcomes at a profit against their books.

Amplifiers may be classified in a variety of ways depending on their application, the frequency range they cover, or the active devices used.

If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend: they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt, to cover the full width of their court against the opponents ' smashes.

This line would then form and cover the passage of the horse, leaving gaps in the line of infantry large enough for the cavalry to pass through and take their position in front.

* Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, along with their assistant Megan Johnson, write the Herald's Inside Track and cover celebrity news.

They seek cover, where they stand still and alert, facing away from the disturbance and turning their heads from time to time to check on the situation.

The local media often cover the event, mentioning how early the shoppers began queueing up, providing video of shoppers queueing and later leaving with their purchased items.

Some commercial bookbinders may refer to the cover and the inside of the book instead, but a few others, attached to their traditions, still use the terms " codex " and " case ".

* The set R of all real numbers is not compact as there is a cover of open intervals that does not have a finite subcover.

For example, the real line equipped with the discrete topology is closed and bounded but not compact, as the collection of all singleton points of the space is an open cover which admits no finite subcover.

This measure space is not σ-finite, because every set with finite measure contains only finitely many points, and it would take uncountably many such sets to cover the entire real line.

In the December 2001 issue the magazine printed a cover by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz showing a map of New York in which various neighborhoods were labeled with humorous names reminiscent of Middle Eastern and Central Asian place names and referencing the neighborhood's real name or characteristics ( e. g., " Fuhgeddabouditstan ", " Botoxia ").

A full 360 ° rotation is not needed because of a symmetry intrinsic to the Fourier transforms of real functions ( such as the electron density ), but " slightly more " than 180 ° is needed to cover all of reciprocal space within a given resolution because of the curvature of the Ewald sphere.

Feeling that there was no real powerful dance numbers on " Intimacy ", Darrin decided to cover Soft Cell's legendary classic " Sex Dwarf ".

In the comic series, he has a crime lord arch nemesis named Drebble, and Calrissian will frequently make use of his foil's name as a cover identity so that any animosity he generates while using the alias will be brought against the real Drebble, not Calrissian himself.

Plug's " real name " was revealed as " Percival Proudfoot Plugsey " on the cover of his own comic Plug ( though according to some earlier strips his real name was Claude ).

The business it would be involved in on behalf of the federal government — a depository for collected taxes, making short term loans to the government to cover real or potential temporary income gaps, serving as a holding site for both incoming and outgoing monies — was considered highly important but still secondary in nature.

The Opus Dei album also features a cover of Queen's " One Vision " with lyrics translated into German under the title Geburt einer Nation, revealing the ambiguity of lines like " One race one hope / One real decision ".

Demand curve with external costs ; if social costs are not accounted for price is too low to cover all costs and hence quantity produced is unnecessarily high ( because the producers of the good and their customers are essentially underpaying the total, real factors of production.

Recruited from university by British Intelligence, he supposedly set up his criminal empire as part of an undercover operation to monitor crime in London which got out of hand, to the point where the ' cover ' became more real to Moriarty than his role in British Intelligence.

The same series of mostly dissonant melody notes cover the phrase " nothing is real " against the prevailing F # 7 chord ( in A key ).

" It came to cover a huge range of phenomena from mild irritation to the kind of severe problems that might result in a real breakdown of health.

Early in his career Wolf modelled his lieder after those of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, particularly in the period around his relationship with Vally Franck ; in fact, they were good enough imitations to pass off as the real thing, which he once attempted, though his cover was blown too soon.

While the Allies were at Brussels making dispositions to march to the relief of Mons, Saxe slipped down the Scheldt with the main body of the army towards his real target ; one column on the left bank of the river, and two columns on the right to cover the march and engage the Allies in battle.

Because the results are needed quickly the predictions must be run in a few hours ; but because they only need to cover a week of real time these predictions can be run at higher resolution than in climate mode.

However, this was simply a cover for his real assignment as senior Central Intelligence Agency representative in Germany.

" Illustrated by Mark Fredrickson, the cover was a double parody, also referencing the January 1973 issue of National Lampoon which depicted a gun being held to a real dog's head and the line " If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog.

The action of the story follows Sybil Gerard, a political courtesan and daughter of an executed Luddite leader ( she is borrowed from Disraeli's novel Sybil ); Edward " Leviathan " Mallory, a paleontologist and explorer ; and Laurence Oliphant, a historical figure with a real career, as portrayed in the book, as a travel writer whose work was a cover for espionage activities " undertaken in the service of Her Majesty ".

* blanket lien — a lien that gives the lienee the entitlement to take possession of any or all of the lienor's real property to cover a delinquent loan.

Note that this means that algebraic group is narrower than Lie group, when working over the field of real numbers: there are examples such as the universal cover of the 2 × 2 special linear group that are Lie groups, but have no faithful linear representation.

Alt's first big break in modeling was in 1980, when she was featured on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine, but she gained real fame in 1982 when she was featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.