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first and use

This immature
use of crayons may suggest that she is
a little immature
for the first grade
.

As
a first step toward this goal
, arrangements were worked out
for comparing
the scales now
in use through circulation
of a group
of standard platinum resistance thermometers
for calibration by each national laboratory
.

Although Mr. Brown
was not himself its inventor ( it
was a French idea )
, it is typical that his intuition
first conceived
the importance
of mass producing this basic tool
for general
use.

Sturdy
and strong after more than
a century
of continuous
use, the old covered
, wooden bridge that spans
the Tygartis Valley River at Philippi will have
a distinctive part
in the week-long observance
of the first land battle
of the Civil War at its home site
, May 28th to June 3rd
.

The same is true
of areas which at
first look good because
of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop
for general public
use.

But
the Russians
use gymnastics
as the first step
in training
for all other sports because it provides training
in every basic quality except one
, endurance
.

The purpose set forth at
the beginning
of this book
was first to introduce
the reader to
a general background knowledge
of the various types
and capabilities
of the forecasting methods already
in use, so that he might then be
in a position to evaluate
for himself
the validity
of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow
, and to appraise
the forecast that its interpretation suggests
for the future
of farm prices over
the years immediately ahead
.

For
the reason just suggested
, I shall assume
the use of the first subtype
of fully distributed cost apportionment
in the following simplified example
.

The
first argument is thus
an ideal experiment
in which we
use the method
of difference
.

More recently
, polyethers -- again
in varied compositions
, molecular weights
, and branching -- have come into
use at
first for the flexible foams
, just lately
for the rigids
.

He recognized that whatever transformation may be effected
in the first stage
of an R-stage process
, the remaining stages must
use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to
the state resulting from
the first stage
, if there is to be
any chance
of optimizing
the complete process
.

I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to
the use of such weapons unless they are
first used by our enemies
''.

It seemed like
a good time
for officials to
use a recently-passed law empowering
the post office department to contract
for the transport
of first class mail by air
.

So far
in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than
first creating
the sort
of person who can make
the highest
use of the things he has created
.

In
the first place
, a good many writers
who are said to
use folklore
, do not
, unless one counts
an occasional superstition or tale
.

The
first use of the term " anthropology "
in English to refer to
a natural science
of humanity
was apparently
in 1593
, the first of the " logies " to be coined
.

Its
first commercial
use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services
.

The
word amphibian became restricted
in the taxonomical sense to what we now
use around 1600
, with
the taxon " Amphibia "
first published
in scientific classification circa 1819
.

Tadpoles have cartilaginous skeletons
, gills
for respiration ( external gills at
first, internal gills later ), lateral line systems
and large tails which they
use for swimming
.

During
the Achaemenid Persian Empire
, around 600 BC
the Persians
first began to
use the abacus
.

Asteroids is also
the first game to
use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ;
a full-color version known
as " Color-QuadraScan "
was later developed
for games such
as Space Duel
and Tempest
.

The 2600 port
was the first game to
use a bank-switched cartridge
, doubling available ROM space
.
first and word

Before being daughter
, wife
, or mother
, before being cultured (
a word now bereft both socially
and politically
of the sheen you children
of frontiersmen bestowed on it )
, before being sorry
for the poor
, progressive about public health
, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian
, indeed
first and foremost
, you were
a lady
.

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
.

She'd found one
and she hadn't said
a word while Big Hans
and I had hunted
and hunted
as we always did all winter
, every winter since
the spring that Hans had come
and I had looked
in the privy
and found
the first one
.

In analyzing
the watercolors
of Roy Mason
, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness
, yet this
word has such
a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here
.

The
word `` binomial
'' means
`` of two names
'' or
`` of two terms
'', and both usages apply
in our work:
the first to
the names
of the two outcomes
of a binomial trial
, and the second to
the terms P
and Af that represent
the probabilities
of `` success
'' and `` failure
''.

Even then
, the flexibility
of the phrasing suggests that
the word comes
first in importance
.

The
first item
in the operand
, IOCSIXF
, is used to specify
the first IOCS index
word for programs using tape files
.

I have been using
the word `` vocational
'' as a layman would at
first sight think it should be used
.

This
word was first applied to
the imported hot-blooded cattle
, but later
was more commonly used
as reference to
a human tenderfoot
.

This
was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout
.

The English
word alphabet came into Middle English from
the Late Latin
word alphabetum
, which
in turn originated
in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha
and beta
, the first two letters
of the Greek alphabet
.

The
word " alphabet "
in English has
a source
in Greek language
in which
the first two letters were " A " ( alpha )
and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

It is Rieux
who treats
the first victim
of plague
and who first uses
the word plague to describe
the disease
.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize
the Armenian Genocide during
the electoral campaigns
, but after being elected
, has not used
the word genocide
in his
first annual April 24 speech
in 2009
.

A contraction
of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables
and bringing together
the first and last letters or elements ;
an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from
the interior or by cutting off
a part
.

If
the original
word was capitalised
, then
the first letter
of its abbreviation should retain
the capital
, for example Lev
.

The
word Applet
was first used
in 1990
in PC Magazine
.

* In Bananagrams
, players place tiles from
a pool into crossword-style
word arrangements
in a race to see
who can finish
the pool
of tiles
first.

The
word " electron "
was coined
in 1891 by
the Irish physicist George Stoney whilst analyzing elementary charges
for the first time
.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back
for explanation to
the first verse
of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah
, the literal rendering
of which is “ O
, with thy mighty right hand deliver
the unhappy ,” forming from
the initial
and final letters
of the words
the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with
the meaning “
the host
of the winged ones ,” i
. e., angels
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