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...ughman of the troubled waters, life-long contending with the in- tractable elements, there was nothing this honest soul at heart loved better than sim... ...nably impute to a dog of Saint Bernard’s breed. Habitually living with the elements and knowing little 12 Billy Budd more of the land than as a beach... ...ng horse fresh from the pasture sud- denly inhaling a vile whiff from some chemical factory, and by repeated snortings tries to get it out of his nos-...

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... commander of this floating dwelling-place proceed? Would he obtain air by chemical means, in getting by heat the oxygen contained in chlorate of pota... ...s Under the Sea the wherewithal to make the electricity—sodium to feed the elements, coal from which to get the sodium, and a coal-mine to supply the ... ... of the mountain. There must have been a terrible struggle between the two elements, a struggle which ended in the victory of Neptune. But many ages h... ... by the carbonic acid with which the air was filled—ah! if we had only the chemical means to drive away this deleterious gas. We had plenty of oxygen;... ...d, some miles from the port of New York. I can describe this strife of the elements! for, instead of fleeing to the depths of the sea, Captain Nemo, b... ...ve in which to reflect their image. As I thought of the deep calm of these elements, compared with all those passions brooding imperceptibly within th...

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...d seemed to think that; how that the spectroscope was already sounding its chemical secrets, perplexed by the unprecedented band in the green, how it ... ... intention of achieving financial adventures. The dishonest and reck- less elements were indeed so evident in this movement as to add very greatly to ... ...upon occasion be; but the poison in the air, its poverty in all the nobler elements which made such moments rare and remarkable—all that has 135 H. G... ...ase wrappings, of its pride, its suspicions, its mercenary and competitive elements, until at last it stood up in our minds stark, shining and invinci...

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...he big electro-magnet, had some extraor- dinary twist given to his retinal elements through the sud- den change in the field of force due to the light... ...lled me down, quite late in the evening,—nearly nine it was,—from cramming chemical equations for my Preliminary Scientific examination. He was standi... ...s, and Plattner was supervising these in the small class-room in which the chemical teaching was conducted. The appliances for the practical teaching ... ... about, and, one night, danced with Creole girls, who found Holroyd’s poor elements of Spanish, without either past tense or future, amply suffi- cien... ...ould change. They led a simple, laborious life, these people, with all the elements of virtue and happiness, as these things can be un- derstood by me...

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...but with a futuristic spin added to it. It is the combination of those two elements that makes the Star Wars saga so wildly popular. It shows us that ... ... question of whether it is humane to take away someone’s life by inserting chemicals into his or her body that may cause more pain than can ever be im... ... As stated in the article, Naked City, by Rita Radostitz, Texas uses three chemicals in the le- thal injection process: sodium thiopental (an ex- trem...

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...s many others have done, I had “sensed it”—that promised land of steel, of chemical dyes, of method, of efficiency; that race planted in the middle of... ... winter of ’81, not of war, truly, but of a fairly lively contest with the elements which were very angry indeed. There had been a troublesome week of... ...even the best position has its dangers on account of the fickleness of the elements. But I think that, left untrammelled to the individual effort of i...

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...: with questions of the threefold designation of God, the three primordial elements—sulphur, mercury, and salt—or the meaning of the square and all th... ...r all is one, all is known in its entirety and life. The Trinity—the three elements of matter—are sulphur, mercury, and salt. Sul- phur is of an oily ... ...nd become comprehensible to man only when he examines arbitrarily selected elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large proportion of human ... ...omes from the arbitrary division of continuous motion into dis- continuous elements. There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisti... ...sulted from this: that motion was arbitrarily divided into discon- tinuous elements, whereas the motion both of Achilles and of the tortoise was conti... ...dino and the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolu- tion. The members of what had once been an ar... ...y differs from any other force. The forces of gravitation, electricity, or chemical affinity are only distin- guished from one another in that they ar... ...dies, the undefinable essence of the forces of heat and electricity, or of chemical affinity, or of the vital force, forms the content of astronomy, p...

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...used Islam’s most extreme,fundamentalist traditions as his match.All these elements—including religion—combined in an explosive compound. Other extrem... ...l plotters in custody, including Nidal Ayyad, an engineer who had acquired chemicals for the bomb, and Mahmoud Abouhalima, who had helped mix the chem... ...ctive services. In addition to those from the Department of Defense, other elements in the intelligence community include the national security parts ... ...s elsewhere in the government. Often, too, its intercepts are con- clusive elements in the analyst’s jigsaw puzzle. NSA engineers build technical syst... ...nd its avoidance of anything domestic would, as will be seen, be important elements in the story of 9/11. Technology as an Intelligence Asset and Liab... ...r all agencies to prepare to detect and respond to terrorism that involved chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. 101 During 1995 and 1996, Preside... ...nter stage; and when it did, the con- text was often terrorists’ tactics—a chemical, biological, nuclear, or computer threat—not terrorist organizatio... ...okyo subway. Presi- dent Clinton himself had expressed great concern about chemical and biolog- ical terrorism in the United States. Bin Ladin had rep... ... vicinity of the al Shifa plant had tested positive for EMPTA, a precursor chemical for VX, a nerve gas whose lone use was for mass killing.Two days b...