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A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.
Lawrence Ferlenghetti and Bruce Lippincott have concentrated on writing a new poetry for reading with jazz that is very closely related to both the musical forms of jazz, and the vocabulary of the musician.
their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).
There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.
Fritzie was on the couch reading ; ;
he rose at half-past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday's Herald Tribune and yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette, then put on his high-topped farmer's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.
and finally, the best part of all, simply sit at the plank table in the kitchen with a bottle of wine and the newspapers, reading the ads as well as the news, registering nothing on her mind but letting her soul suspend itself above all wishing and desire.
Schnabel's emphasis on structural clarity, his innate rhythmic vibrancy, and impetuous intensity all tend to stamp his reading as a symphonic one.
A little investigation by telephone or reading the travel ads in the newspapers and magazines will give you these pertinent details on the additional money-saving benefits.
`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!
And then again perhaps the reason why he couldn't find time to do any of the things he had planned to do after retirement: reading, roaming, gardening, lying on his back and watching the clouds go by, was because he didn't want to do them.
The stress on have, which here represents have finished reading the paper, is quite strong.
A vision handicap that may produce nervous tension and reading disability for one child may spur another child on to even greater achievement in reading.
All these evaluations are then totted up and tabulated, by adding up the Hits and Significants, with the weight placed on those in the sitter's own reading.
Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;
This time the search took twice as long, cutting down on his extra reading, for he had to pick through several columns of one- and two-line social notes in each issue.
The reading, which has been watched with interest since Russia's detonation of a super bomb Monday, was 4 on Tuesday and 7 last Saturday, a level far below the danger point, according to the board of health.
After a short time, both George and Donald joined the class with me so they wouldn't feel lonely, and we used to hang a sign on the door of the Brush-off reading out to work.
He leafed through the light reading provided by Mrs. Kirby for her guests: four separate adventures of the Bobbsey Twins ( At the Seashore, At the Mountains, On the Farm, and In Danger ) and several agricultural bulletins on the treatment of hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle, hideously illustrated.
`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.
He then decided to become a lawyer and began teaching himself law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and other law books.
Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

reading and platforms
Roberto Busa began developing an electronic edition of Aquinas in the 1940s, while large-scale electronic text editing, hypertext, and online reading platforms such as Augment and FRESS appeared in the 1960s.
Since then, LeapFrog has developed a number of learning platforms with a library of software titles, covering subjects including phonics, reading, writing, and math for grade school children.
Both platforms have name tablets reading " 163RD STREET-AMSTERDAM AV " in white sans serif font on two lines.
Both platforms have their original mosaic trim line with " 68 " tablets on it at regular intervals and name tablets reading " 68th STREET-HUNTER COLLEGE " in two lines.
At either ends of both platforms, where they were extended in the 1950s, there are cinderblock tiles with signs reading " BERGEN ST " in sans serif font on a maroon background.
Both platforms have their original IRT trim line and name tablets reading " BOROUGH HALL " in a serif lettering style.
Both platforms have their original terra-cotta wall reliefs and name tablets reading " BOROUGH HALL " in sans serif lettering.
On the walls of the platforms are mosaics of sailing ships and large name panels reading Clark Street – Brooklyn Heights.
The platforms contain their original trim line that includes " 157 " mosaics and name tablets reading " 157TH ST ." There are also directional signs on the tiles containing white lettering on a black background and brown border.
It is built in a modern, glass enclosed building above the platforms and tracks with a large stainless steel sign on either side reading " HOWARD BEACH JFK.
Both platforms have a lime green trim line on a darker green border and name tablets reading " FULTON ST " in white sans serif font on a dark green background and lime green border.
Both platforms have a green trim line on a black border and name tablets reading " CARROLL ST ." in white sans-serif lettering on a black background and green border.
Both platforms on the upper level have a dark green trim line on a lime green border and name tablets reading " BERGEN ST ." in white sans serif lettering on a dark green background and green border, all of which were installed during a 1990s renovation.

reading and even
Both knew that when trains stopped at Texan crossroads bored soldiers would sometimes enter to ask the passengers if they had any reading material to spare, even a newspaper.
Bible reading, even more so than good classical music, grows in depth and meaning upon repetition.
If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!
Glasses and other vision aids, large-print materials as well as bright but angled reading lights, can help individuals with albinism, even though their vision cannot be corrected completely.
The " angel " reading found an echo among the ancient Fathers of the Church and ecclesiastical writers, and even gave rise to the " strangest fancies ", especially among the disciples of Origen of Alexandria.
#" A reading altogether peculiar to one or another ancient document is suspicious ; as also is any, even if supported by a class of documents, which seems to evince that it has originated in the revision of a learned man.
In addition, Conan speaks many languages, including advanced reading and writing abilities: in certain stories, he is able to recognize, or even decipher, certain ancient or secret signs and writings ; for example, in " Jewels of Gwahlur " Howard states, " In his roaming about the world the giant adventurer had picked up a wide smattering of knowledge, particularly including the speaking and reading of many alien tongues.
However, the best modern analysis of the sources of the creed ( by A. de Halleux, in Revue Theologique de Louvain 7, 1976 ) and a reading of the acts, or proceedings, of the council ( recently translated into English ) show that the bishops considered Cyril the great authority and that even the language of ' two natures ' derives from him.
A straightforward reading of,, and suggests that Jesus even forbids any hierarchy of relationships in Christian relationships: " You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.
This transposition applies even when reading the tenor and treble clef, which are used to avoid excessive ledger lines when notating the instrument's upper range.
He further demonstrated the reason for the inclusion of the Greek text when defending his work: " But one thing the facts cry out, and it can be clear, as they say, even to a blind man, that often through the translator ’ s clumsiness or inattention the Greek has been wrongly rendered ; often the true and genuine reading has been corrupted by ignorant scribes, which we see happen every day, or altered by scribes who are half-taught and half-asleep.
The books, which are referenced many times in the Harry Potter books, even have footnotes about other books, which do not exist, for future reading, and a foreword by Albus Dumbledore, which explains why they are releasing the book to a muggle audience.
In other words, a meter glucose reading of 39 mg / dL could be properly obtained from a person whose laboratory serum glucose was 53 mg / dL ; even wider variations can occur with " real world " home use.
As he learned more about Hitler through his reading, he began to regard him as a useful face of the party, and he later admired and even worshipped him.
As a result, all previous hypertext systems were overshadowed by the success of the Web, even though it originally lacked many features of those earlier systems, such as an easy way to edit what you were reading.
They might have difficulty getting and maintaining a job, providing for their families, or even reading a story to their children.
A typical computer user may require passwords for many purposes: logging in to computer accounts, retrieving e-mail from servers, accessing programs, databases, networks, web sites, and even reading the morning newspaper online.
In another version, he was even attacked by the Devil while he was reading the Mass, and the Devil mutilated him and gave his gouged-out eyes to demons to play with in the Church.
The usage of the hieroglyphic script had become increasingly specialised even in the later Pharaonic period ; by the 4th century AD, few Egyptians were capable of reading hieroglyphs.
" For his part, MacDonald wrote an admiring preface to Night Shift, and even had his famous character, Travis McGee, reading Cujo in one of the last McGee novels and Pet Sematary in the last McGee novel, The Lonely Silver Rain.
But even if a biographic reading of the verses is accepted, this is not certain.

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