`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??

`` All right, if you can't do your arithmetic during school hours you can do it after school is out '', Miss Langford said firmly, not smiling.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

He will not curb his instinctual desires but release the energy within him that makes him feel truly and fully alive, even if it is only for this brief moment before the apocalypse of annihilation explodes on earth.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

She placed her palms, fingers outspread, on the desk in an odd gesture as if to say, `` Now, what next ''??

I remarked jocularly to the President that the future of China would be far more certain if he would invite a planeload of selected American Liberals to Quemoy on an odd day.

It is not known whether an even-odd pair of amicable numbers exists, but if it does, the even number must either be a square number or twice one, and the odd number must be a square number.

If the opponents win the rally and their new score is even, the player in the right service court serves ; if odd, the player in the left service court serves.

A group is said to be of component type if for some centralizer C of an involution, C / O ( C ) has a component ( where O ( C ) is the core of C, the maximal normal subgroup of odd order ).

The problem is to show that if a group has a centralizer of involution in " standard form " then it is a group of Lie type of odd characteristic.

The gamma function must alternate sign between the poles because the product in the forward recurrence contains an odd number of negative factors if the number of poles between and is odd, and an even number if the number of poles is even.

During the same period, vessels targeting right and bowhead whales in the Gulf of Alaska, Sea of Okhotsk, and the Western Arctic would take the odd gray whale if neither of the more desirable two species were in sight.

Here, sgn ( p ) is the signature of each permutation ( i. e. + 1 if p is composed of an even number of transpositions, and − 1 if odd.

Since p is prime q − 1 must be a multiple of p. Of course, if the number m = < sup >( q − 1 )</ sup >⁄< sub > p </ sub > is odd, then q will be even, since it is equal to mp + 1.

* ( n ): the Möbius function, the parity (− 1 for odd, + 1 for even ) of the number of prime factors of square-free numbers ; 0 if n is not square-free

However, if ethical statements do not represent cognitions, it seems odd to use them as premises in an argument, and even odder to assume they follow the same rules of syllogism as true propositions.

Euclid IX 21 — 34 is very probably Pythagorean ; it is very simple material (" odd times even is even ", " if an odd number measures divides an even number, then it also measures divides half of it "), but it is all that is needed to prove that

However, non-time-critical custom chip access, such as blitter transfers, can use up any spare odd or even cycles and, if the " BLITHOG " ( blitter hog ) flag is set, Agnus can lock out the even cycles from the CPU in deference to the blitter.

These different sounds are nonetheless considered to belong to the same phoneme, because if a speaker used one instead of the other, the meaning of the word would not change: using the aspirated form in skill might sound odd, but the word would still be recognized.

The process, rather than the outcomes, seemed to drive his explicit behaviour and odd use of language, e. g., he called God the " Supreme Fascist ", echoing the role Whitehead assigned, as if the synthesis of Erdős and collaborators in seeking proofs, creating sense-datum for other mathematicians, was itself the expression of a divine will.

Recordings made using these other equalization schemes will typically sound odd if they are played through a RIAA-equalized preamplifier.

** Parity function, a Boolean function whose value is 1 if the input vector has an odd number of ones

** Parity flag in computing, indicates if the number of set bits is odd or even in the binary representation of the result of the last operation

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

The boy came on to the porch and sat down, his gaze on Morgan as if half expecting him to shoot and not really caring.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.

Jones sighed as if relieved.

You'd have starved to death if you'd missed both places ''.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

`` We'll pay you back if you'll let us.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

`` McLish '', he said as he kicked the horse into motion, `` I'd be a mighty sad man if we never met again ''.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

I'll be down at the creek finishing the dishes, if you want me ''.

Squatting, as if waiting.

When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.

Dill was silent as if he hated to answer, and Barton had a cold, sick feeling of apprehension.

Atonement, if atonement were possible, could only be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.