Below you will find a set of texts used on TypeRacer. Certain texts only appear on certain difficulties.
| Rank |
ID |
Text |
Length |
Races |
Difficulty Rating |
Top Score |
Top 100 |
Average |
Active Since |
| 1. |
#4190353 |
If the rays of light that form the event horizon, the boundary of the black hole, can never approach each other, the area of the event horizon might stay the same or increase with time, but it could never decrease because that would mean that at least some of the rays of light in the boundary would have to be approaching each other. |
334 |
13 |
1.181 |
208.37 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
148.75 |
148.75 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 2. |
#4190442 |
I left him sitting with a quiet smile on his face. When I had crossed the avenue I looked through the glass, seeing him still there, and it occurred to me that he was the same man who had followed me over the roof. He hadn't been chasing me at all but only going in the same direction. I hadn't understood much of what he had said, only that he had spoken with great confidence. |
378 |
2 |
1.179 |
216.85 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
180.31 |
180.31 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 3. |
#4190246 |
No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. |
182 |
3 |
1.157 |
138.66 — police (styrofoam) |
119.13 |
119.13 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 4. |
#4190112 |
Also note that in the tenor clef, the first sharp of the key signature is on the second line, with the following sharps in the pattern fifth up and fourth down. This arrangement avoids the use of ledger lines. |
209 |
4 |
1.141 |
191.20 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
151.86 |
151.86 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 5. |
#4190231 |
Now, therefore, things shall be openly spoken that have been hidden from all but a few until this day. And first, so that all may understand what is the peril, the tale of the Ring shall be told from the beginning even to this present. And I will begin that tale, though others may end it. |
289 |
9 |
1.140 |
208.00 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
145.64 |
145.64 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 6. |
#4190323 |
We have shown that when effective demand is deficient there is under employment of labor in the sense that there are men unemployed who would be willing to work at less than the existing real wage. Consequently, as effective demand increases, employment increases, though at a real wage equal to or less than the existing one, until a point comes at which there is no surplus of labor available at the then existing real wage. |
426 |
4 |
1.135 |
120.41 — (poem) |
109.77 |
109.77 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 7. |
#4190006 |
I stood for a long time watching the fires, wondering if I should move to another part of the island, perhaps to the cave where the wild dogs had lived. I was not afraid that the men would discover me, because they worked on the beach or hunted in their canoes all day. It was the girl I was afraid of. The ravine was tangled with brush, which was hard to walk through, but in the ravine grew seeds and roots. Sometime when she was out looking for food she might wander by the spring and see that it was being used and find my steps leading to the cave. |
553 |
5 |
1.131 |
164.99 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
146.75 |
146.75 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 8. |
#4190226 |
I wish we could feel sure that he had made the marks, whatever they may mean. It would be a great comfort to know that he was on the way, in front of us or behind us. |
166 |
13 |
1.125 |
170.81 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
133.19 |
133.19 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 9. |
#4190244 |
He looked down at the mask hanging around his neck. So simple a lie, and he could walk freely throughout the world. But would he then be trapped within the web of his own deception? What freedom could he find denying the truth about himself? |
241 |
9 |
1.123 |
169.85 — mako (mako640) |
140.34 |
140.34 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 10. |
#4190422 |
The room was blazing hot, he was all fire, he was all coldness; they sat in the middle of an empty desert with three chairs and him standing, swaying, and him waiting for Mrs. Phelps to stop straightening her dress hem and Mrs. Bowles to take her fingers away from her hair. |
274 |
1 |
1.122 |
150.87 — learn dvorak (usa_usa_usa_usa) |
150.87 |
150.87 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 11. |
#4190444 |
When I reached home, tiredness seemed to explode within me. My nerves remained tense even after I had had a hot shower and crawled into bed. In my disappointment, I wanted only to sleep, but my mind kept wandering back to the rally. It had actually happened. I had been lucky and had said the right things at the right time and they had liked me. |
346 |
5 |
1.121 |
156.93 — Cameron (gnikgg) |
146.25 |
146.25 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 12. |
#4190212 |
Many times he repeated these words in different order, or varied them. Then he tried other spells, one after another, speaking now faster and louder, now soft and slow. Then he spoke many single words of Elvish speech. Nothing happened. The cliff towered into the night, the countless stars were kindled, the wind blew cold, and the doors stood fast. |
350 |
8 |
1.114 |
195.72 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
160.67 |
160.67 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 13. |
#4190031 |
Occasionally in your speaking experience you may find that you have done everything you are supposed to do in terms of tailoring your presentation to your expected audience, only to arrive at the venue to discover that the audience you are facing is not quite the audience you expected. |
286 |
8 |
1.112 |
180.18 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
145.33 |
145.33 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 14. |
#4190249 |
It is so easy to forget that you are truly alive, or at least, to appreciate that you are truly alive, that every sunrise is yours to view and every sunset is yours to enjoy. |
174 |
8 |
1.112 |
178.14 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
126.68 |
126.68 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 15. |
#4190414 |
She didn't look up from her script again. Well, this is a play comes on the wall-to-wall circuit in ten minutes. They mailed me my part this morning. I sent in some box-tops. They write the script with one part missing. It's a new idea. The home-maker, that's me, is the missing part. |
284 |
6 |
1.111 |
197.76 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
137.20 |
137.20 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 16. |
#4190242 |
I have had few friends in my life, and if I live a thousand years, I suspect that this will remain true. There is little to lament in this fact, though, for those who have called me friend have been persons of great character and have enriched my existence, given it worth. First there was Zaknafien, my father and mentor who showed me that I was not alone and that I was not incorrect in holding my beliefs. Zaknafien saved me, from both the blade and the chaotic, evil, fanatic religion that damns my people. |
510 |
1 |
1.105 |
164.13 — Glevion (glevion) |
164.13 |
164.13 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 17. |
#4190387 |
He was a bit early. There had been no difficulties about the journey, and the girl was so evidently experienced that he was less frightened than he would normally have been. Presumably she could be trusted to find a safe place. In general you could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London. There were no telescreens, of course, but there was always the danger of concealed microphones by which your voice might be picked up and recognized; besides, it was not easy to make a journey by yourself without attracting attention. |
550 |
10 |
1.104 |
196.63 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
153.00 |
153.00 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 18. |
#4190418 |
He took hold of a straight-backed chair and moved it slowly and steadily into the hall near the front door and climbed up on it and stood for a moment like a statue on a pedestal, his wife standing under him, waiting. Then he reached up and pulled back the grille of the air-conditioning system and reached far back inside to the right and moved still another sliding sheet of metal and took out a book. |
403 |
8 |
1.102 |
185.40 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
146.23 |
146.23 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 19. |
#4190419 |
The front door opened slowly. Faber peered out, looking very old in the light and very fragile and very much afraid. The old man looked as if he had not been out of the house in years. He and the white plaster walls inside were much the same. There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white and his eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there. Then his eyes touched on the book under Montag's arm and he did not look so old any more and not quite as fragile. Slowly his fear went. |
523 |
5 |
1.099 |
132.17 — Matthew (courtreporter) |
116.34 |
116.34 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 20. |
#4190180 |
He just wanted to see her. He just wanted to look at her, hear her talk, smell her hair. He'd stayed away from her for two weeks, hadn't he? He had a right... He had no rights, he told himself as he rode into the yard. He had no rights, and no business thinking about her the way he was thinking about her, wanting her the way he wanted her. |
341 |
6 |
1.096 |
165.15 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
134.14 |
134.14 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 21. |
#4190201 |
Gandalf was shorter in stature than the other two; but his long white hair, his sweeping silver beard, and his broad shoulders, made him look like some wise king of ancient legend. In his aged face under great snowy brows his dark eyes were set like coals that could leap suddenly into fire. |
291 |
7 |
1.095 |
175.64 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
139.38 |
139.38 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 22. |
#4190402 |
He had moved a little to one side, so that Winston had a better view of the thing on the table. It was an oblong wire cage with a handle on top for carrying it by. Fixed to the front of it was something that looked like a fencing mask, with the concave side outwards. Although it was three or four metres away from him, he could see that the cage was divided lengthways into two compartments, and that there was some kind of creature in each. They were rats. |
458 |
8 |
1.092 |
196.66 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
162.82 |
162.82 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 23. |
#4190235 |
When winter first begins to bite and stones crack in the frosty night, when pools are black and trees are bare, 'tis evil in the wild to fare. |
142 |
10 |
1.092 |
175.58 — [10FF] Jashe (jakob2000) |
137.82 |
137.82 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 24. |
#4190420 |
The door opened and shut. Montag was in the dark street again, looking at the world. You could feel the war getting ready in the sky that night. The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds, like the enemy discs, and the feeling that the sky might fall upon the city and turn it to chalk dust, and the moon go up in red fire; that was how the night felt. |
431 |
7 |
1.092 |
201.27 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
151.14 |
151.14 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 25. |
#4190215 |
They stumbled after him wondering what had happened. Doom, doom, went the drum-beats again: they now sounded muffled and far away, but they were following. There was no other sound of pursuit, neither tramp of foot, nor any voice. |
230 |
8 |
1.092 |
162.13 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
126.02 |
126.02 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 26. |
#4190037 |
Many words may also have at least one connotative meaning - an association that comes to mind when people hear or read the word. |
128 |
18 |
1.091 |
203.23 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
137.22 |
137.22 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 27. |
#4190267 |
Place your two index fingers on the two keys on your keyboard with the two little tactile markers near the center of the middle character row. With that done your other fingers will find their intended keys almost automatically. Your thumbs should rest above the space key, the only key you will ever use them for when touch typing. The other fingers should be placed on the three keys adjacent to the marked keys on the center row. Keys for the same finger are grouped together through their color. Try to move your hands as little as possible and always try to return your fingers to their resting positions after you have typed a character. |
643 |
10 |
1.090 |
197.47 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
147.69 |
147.69 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 28. |
#4190381 |
The afternoon was more bearable. Immediately after lunch there arrived a delicate, difficult piece of work which would take several hours and necessitated putting everything else aside. It consisted in falsifying a series of production reports of two years ago, in such a way as to cast discredit on a prominent member of the Inner Party, who was now under a cloud. This was the kind of thing that Winston was good at, and for more than two hours he succeeded in shutting the girl out of his mind altogether. |
508 |
9 |
1.088 |
155.58 — zetria (primalknight) |
131.08 |
131.08 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 29. |
#4190149 |
The day for the execution of the Turk was fixed, but on the night previous to it he quitted his prison and before morning was distant many leagues from Paris. Felix had procured passports in the name of his father, sister, and himself. He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretense of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris. |
437 |
6 |
1.088 |
219.18 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
165.12 |
165.12 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 30. |
#4190165 |
Bubble harrumphed, yanked her knife from the table and went back to gutting a trout at the butcher block, her great bottom rolling like thunderclouds under her skirt as she moved. |
179 |
4 |
1.087 |
201.84 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
151.63 |
151.63 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 31. |
#4190354 |
Even if the search for primordial black holes proves negative, as it seems it may, it will still give us important information about the very early stages of the universe. If the early universe had been chaotic or irregular, or if the pressure of matter had been low, one would have expected it to produce many more primordial black holes than the limit already set by our observations of the gamma-ray background. |
414 |
10 |
1.086 |
168.22 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
131.35 |
131.35 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 32. |
#4190291 |
One thing to keep in mind when racing an opponent during the Clicking Championship is to make sure that you do not pay attention to the person who is racing you right now. Make sure that you scroll down to the text and focus exactly on what you are typing right now. Imagine that you are speeding past your opponent and have nothing to worry about as you type out this very easy sentence. In fact, your words per minute are probably increasing by the second as we approach the finish line right about now. |
505 |
6 |
1.085 |
173.28 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
125.15 |
125.15 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 33. |
#4190108 |
The use of conductor's beats is highly recommended. Shown below are hand-movement patterns for two beats, three beats, and four beats per measure. Successive downbeats of each pattern coincide with successive bar lines. You should conduct with your right hand. |
260 |
4 |
1.082 |
174.00 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
153.45 |
153.45 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 34. |
#4190400 |
For a moment he had had an overwhelming hallucination of her presence. She had seemed to be not merely with him, but inside him. It was as though she had got into the texture of his skin. In that moment he had loved her far more than he had ever done when they were together and free. Also he knew that somewhere or other she was still alive and needed his help. |
362 |
9 |
1.081 |
199.73 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
153.20 |
153.20 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 35. |
#4190003 |
At that moment, while he lay there on the grass with the dog circling warily and the pack moving slowly towards him, without knowing that I did so, I fitted an arrow to the bow. A good distance separated Rontu from his attacker and I could end the battle before he was wounded further or the pack fell upon him. Yet, as before, I did not send the arrow. |
353 |
11 |
1.081 |
195.99 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
145.94 |
145.94 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 36. |
#4190153 |
Nor did Jonas, tonight. His feelings were too complicated this evening. He wanted to share them, but he wasn't eager to begin the process of sifting through his own complicated emotions, even with the help that he knew his parents could give. |
242 |
6 |
1.078 |
156.71 — Dylan (dr_gammaray) |
133.32 |
133.32 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 37. |
#4190207 |
The morning was now far advanced. From the high place they looked back westwards over the lower lands. Far away in the tumble of country that lay at the foot of the mountain was the dell from which they had started to climb the pass. |
233 |
5 |
1.076 |
145.83 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
128.04 |
128.04 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 38. |
#4190366 |
When we combine quantum mechanics with general relativity, there seems to be a new possibility that did not arise before: that space and time together might form a finite, four-dimensional space without singularities or boundaries, like the surface of the earth but with more dimensions. It seems that this idea could explain many of the observed features of the universe, such as its large-scale uniformity and also the smaller-scale departures from homogeneity, like galaxies, stars, and even human beings. |
508 |
10 |
1.076 |
205.07 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
161.99 |
161.99 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 39. |
#4190002 |
My father's words were obeyed. We did not go to the Ateut camp and they did not come to our village. But this is not to say that we did not know what they did - what they ate and in what way they cooked it, how many otter were killed each day, and other things as well - for someone was always watching from the cliffs while they were hunting, or from the ravine when they were in camp. |
386 |
5 |
1.074 |
200.97 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
152.75 |
152.75 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 40. |
#4190298 |
We imagine further that at the two ends A and B of the rod, clocks are placed which synchronize with the clocks of the stationary system, that is to say that their indications correspond at any instant to the time of the stationary system at the places where they happen to be. These clocks are therefore synchronous in the stationary system. |
342 |
9 |
1.072 |
146.81 — zapakh (zapakh) |
117.93 |
117.93 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 41. |
#4190119 |
Although the rainy season had not been declared officially over, the Tokyo sky was intensely blue and the midsummer sun beat down on the earth. With their newly thickened burden of green leaves, the willows once again cast dense, trembling shadows on the street. |
262 |
9 |
1.071 |
184.04 — mako (mako640) |
129.47 |
129.47 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 42. |
#4190218 |
Frodo looked and saw, still at some distance, a hill of many mighty trees, or a city of green towers; which it was he could not tell. Out of it, it seemed to him that the power and light came that held all the land in sway. He longed suddenly to fly like a bird to rest in the green city. |
288 |
15 |
1.071 |
172.81 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
126.96 |
126.96 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 43. |
#4190318 |
I conclude, therefore, that the commodity, in terms of which wages are expected to be most sticky, cannot be one whose elasticity of production is not least, and for which the excess of carrying costs over liquidity premium is not least. |
237 |
17 |
1.071 |
203.97 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
140.40 |
140.40 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 44. |
#4190380 |
Whatever was written on the paper, it must have some kind of political meaning. So far as he could see there were two possibilities. One, much the more likely, was that the girl was an agent of the Thought Police, just as he had feared. He did not know why the Thought Police should choose to deliver their messages in such a fashion, but perhaps they had their reasons. |
370 |
7 |
1.071 |
167.39 — Cameron (gnikgg) |
132.81 |
132.81 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 45. |
#4190078 |
A good speaking outline reminds you not only of what you want to say but also of how you want to say it. As you practice the speech, you will decide that certain ideas and phrases need special emphasis - that they should be spoken more loudly, softly, slowly, or rapidly than other parts of the speech. |
302 |
13 |
1.071 |
199.01 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
155.05 |
155.05 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 46. |
#4190156 |
"Of course," Mother said, and Jonas and Lily nodded. They had heard Father complain about the night crew before. It was a lesser job, night-crew nurturing, assigned to those who lacked the interest or skills or insight for the more vital jobs of the daytime hours. Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit. |
462 |
5 |
1.070 |
151.01 — Glevion (glevion) |
122.83 |
122.83 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 47. |
#4190376 |
Winston immediately paid over the four dollars and slid the coveted thing into his pocket. What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one. The soft, rainwatery glass was not like any glass that he had ever seen. The thing was doubly attractive because of its apparent uselessness, though he could guess that it must once have been intended as a paperweight. |
459 |
8 |
1.070 |
201.28 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
152.84 |
152.84 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 48. |
#4190245 |
No longer did Drizzt limit his hopes and desires. He would see the world as he could and draw his choices from his wishes, not from limitations he might impose upon himself. For now, Drizzt had found something too personal to be shared. For the first time in his life, the drow had found peace. |
294 |
13 |
1.069 |
160.22 — (jlachney) |
118.26 |
118.26 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 49. |
#4190185 |
She wasn't sure she could speak, though she could hardly claim to be surprised. He'd made no secret about the fact that he was courting her. She studied his face in silence. He was everything she had dreamed of. Handsome, dashing, dependable, successful. Now he was offering her everything she had dreamed of. A home, a family, a full and happy life. She wanted to say yes, to lift a hand to his cheek and smile. But she couldn't. She looked away, struggling to find the right words. |
483 |
6 |
1.069 |
191.93 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
152.78 |
152.78 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 50. |
#4190240 |
Ultimately, the claim goes to the strongest, does it not? In the final sort of things, I mean. He who remains alive, remains alive to write the histories in a light favorable to him and his cause. Surely as worldly as you are, you know well the histories of the world, Master Wingham. Surely you recognize that armies carrying banners are almost always thieves - until they win. |
378 |
5 |
1.069 |
185.80 — mako (mako640) |
132.97 |
132.97 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 51. |
#4190125 |
Tengo thought about this for a moment, but there really wasn't that much to think about. All he did was put the things that Ushikawa had told him in order. |
155 |
11 |
1.069 |
189.82 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
154.51 |
154.51 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 52. |
#4190417 |
They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again. |
407 |
11 |
1.069 |
200.82 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
140.63 |
140.63 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 53. |
#4190388 |
The lane widened, and in a minute he came to the footpath she had told him of, a mere cattle-track which plunged between the bushes. He had no watch, but it could not be fifteen yet. The bluebells were so thick underfoot that it was impossible not to tread on them. He knelt down and began picking some partly to pass the time away, but also from a vague idea that he would like to have a bunch of flowers to offer to the girl when they met. |
441 |
13 |
1.069 |
152.48 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
124.67 |
124.67 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 54. |
#4190021 |
Public speaking also involves careful consideration of the rights and responsibilities that come into play when individuals are free to express their ideas in a public form. |
173 |
8 |
1.068 |
212.36 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
137.14 |
137.14 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 55. |
#4190358 |
At first, I believed that disorder would decrease when the universe recollapsed. This was because I thought that the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it became small again. This would mean that the contracting phase would be like the time reverse of the expanding phase. |
295 |
11 |
1.067 |
165.68 — mako (mako640) |
135.70 |
135.70 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 56. |
#4190395 |
At this moment there was a devastating explosion, or what seemed like an explosion, though it was not certain whether there was any noise. There was undoubtedly a blinding flash of light. Winston was not hurt, only prostrated. Although he had already been lying on his back when the thing happened, he had a curious feeling that he had been knocked into that position. |
368 |
17 |
1.066 |
179.24 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
129.84 |
129.84 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 57. |
#4190371 |
Some time after their release Winston had actually seen all three of them in the Chestnut Tree Cafe. He remembered the sort of terrified fascination with which he had watched them out of the corner of his eye. They were men far older than himself, relics of the ancient world, almost the last great figures left over from the heroic days of the Party. The glamour of the underground struggle and the civil war still faintly clung to them. He had the feeling, though already at that time facts and dates were growing blurry, that he had known their names years earlier than he had known that of Big Brother. |
606 |
15 |
1.066 |
194.36 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
125.57 |
125.57 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 58. |
#4190401 |
It was bigger than most of the cells he had been in. But he hardly noticed his surroundings. All he noticed was that there were two small tables straight in front of him, each covered with green baize. One was only a metre or two from him, the other was further away, near the door. He was strapped upright in a chair, so tightly that he could move nothing, not even his head. |
376 |
5 |
1.065 |
130.10 — ⛧🦇🎃💀🎃🦇⛧ ... |
104.60 |
104.60 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 59. |
#4190094 |
The third device you can use to enhance the rhythm of your speeches is alliteration. The most common method of alliteration is repeating the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words. |
193 |
8 |
1.065 |
184.50 — mako (mako640) |
153.17 |
153.17 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 60. |
#4190181 |
There was a long passage about her father, and her feelings about him. He passed it by. Grief was to be respected, unless it needed to be shared. He chuckled out loud as she described her first night, the cold can of beans and the sounds that had kept her awake and trembling until morning. There were bits and pieces he found entertaining enough about the townspeople and her impressions of life in the West. Then he caught his name again. |
440 |
10 |
1.065 |
190.48 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
142.72 |
142.72 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 61. |
#4190333 |
The boom which is destined to end in a slump is caused, therefore, by the combination of a rate of interest, which in a correct state of expectation would be too high for full employment, with a misguided state of expectation which, so long as it lasts, prevents this rate of interest from being in fact deterrent. |
314 |
7 |
1.065 |
186.99 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
132.56 |
132.56 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 62. |
#4190210 |
The Moon now shone upon the grey face of the rock; but they could see nothing else for a while. Then slowly on the surface, where the wizard's hands had passed, faint lines appeared, like slender veins of silver running in the stone. |
233 |
9 |
1.064 |
189.03 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
137.86 |
137.86 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 63. |
#4190408 |
He pushed the picture out of his mind. It was a false memory. He was troubled by false memories occasionally. They did not matter so long as one knew them for what they were. Some things had happened, others had not happened. He turned back to the chessboard and picked up the white knight again. Almost in the same instant it dropped onto the board with a clatter. He had started as though a pin had run into him. |
414 |
13 |
1.064 |
199.29 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
143.51 |
143.51 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 64. |
#4190396 |
Winston began to dress himself with slow stiff movements. Until now he had not seemed to notice how thin and weak he was. Only one thought stirred in his mind: that he must have been in this place longer than he had imagined. Then suddenly as he fixed the miserable rags round himself a feeling of pity for his ruined body overcame him. Before he knew what he was doing he had collapsed on to a small stool that stood beside the bed and burst into tears. |
454 |
11 |
1.064 |
172.62 — mako (mako640) |
137.21 |
137.21 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 65. |
#4190446 |
But when Brother Tod Clifton came into my office to discuss the street meeting I saw no signs of resentment, but a complete absorption in the strategy of the meeting. With great care he went about instructing me how to deal with hecklers, on what to do if we were attacked, and upon how to recognize our own members from the rest of the crowd. |
343 |
5 |
1.062 |
150.63 — Glevion (glevion) |
139.41 |
139.41 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 66. |
#4190384 |
He did not look at her. He unpacked his tray and promptly began eating. It was all-important to speak at once, before anyone else came, but now a terrible fear had taken possession of him. A week had gone by since she had first approached him. She would have changed her mind, she must have changed her mind! |
308 |
21 |
1.062 |
210.06 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
134.01 |
134.01 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 67. |
#4190331 |
If we examine the details of any actual instance of the trade cycle, we shall find that it is highly complex and that every element in our analysis will be required for its complete explanation. In particular we shall find that fluctuations in the propensity to consume, in the state of liquidity-preference, and in the marginal efficiency of capital have all played a part. |
374 |
13 |
1.061 |
159.95 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
129.78 |
129.78 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 68. |
#4190239 |
There have been many times in my life when I have felt helpless. It is perhaps the most acute pain a person can know, founded in frustration and ventless rage. The nick of a sword upon a battling soldier's arm cannot compare to the anguish a prisoner feels at the crack of a whip. Even if the whip does not strike the helpless prisoner's body, it surely cuts deep into the soul. We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape. |
608 |
6 |
1.060 |
164.36 — Glevion (glevion) |
153.05 |
153.05 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 69. |
#4190393 |
She pressed herself against him and wound her limbs round him, as though to reassure him with the warmth of her body. He did not reopen his eyes immediately. For several moments he had had the feeling of being back in a nightmare which had recurred from time to time throughout his life. |
287 |
7 |
1.059 |
166.65 — zetria (primalknight) |
139.56 |
139.56 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 70. |
#4190403 |
The circle of the mask was large enough now to shut out the vision of anything else. The wire door was a couple of handspans from his face. The rats knew what was coming now. One of them was leaping up and down, the other, an old scaly grandfather of the sewers, stood up, with his pink hands against the bars, and fiercely sniffed the air. Winston could see the whiskers and the yellow teeth. |
393 |
6 |
1.058 |
197.15 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
136.58 |
136.58 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 71. |
#4190005 |
I drove the knife down into his body and as I did this I was suddenly covered, or so it seemed, with a countless number of leeches, sucking at my skin. Fortunately one hand was free, the hand that held the knife, and again and again I struck down through the tough hide. The suckers, which were fastened to me and pained greatly, lessened their hold. Slowly the arms stopped moving and then grew limp. |
401 |
8 |
1.058 |
165.55 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
134.94 |
134.94 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 72. |
#4190075 |
When one puts money into a bank, the bank is obliged to return the money on demand - but we all know that, while the bank can do this to some of the people who deposited money, it by definition cannot do it for all of them. |
223 |
9 |
1.058 |
166.36 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
139.10 |
139.10 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 73. |
#4190356 |
Science seems to have uncovered a set of laws that, within the limits set by the uncertainty principle, tell us how the universe will develop with time, if we know its state at any one time. These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it. |
355 |
13 |
1.058 |
204.82 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
144.66 |
144.66 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 74. |
#4190334 |
It is impossible to study the notions to which the mercantilists were led by their actual experiences, without perceiving that there has been a chronic tendency throughout human history for the propensity to save to be stronger than the inducement to invest. The weakness of the inducement to invest has been at all times the key to the economic problem. |
354 |
10 |
1.056 |
164.76 — (sidd_) |
125.92 |
125.92 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 75. |
#4190347 |
We can determine the present rate of expansion by measuring the velocities at which other galaxies are moving away from us, using the Doppler effect. This can be done very accurately. However, the distances to the galaxies are not very well known because we can only measure them indirectly. |
291 |
15 |
1.056 |
171.13 — Glevion (glevion) |
117.07 |
117.07 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 76. |
#4190415 |
One two three four five six seven days. And as many times he came out of the house and Clarisse was there somewhere in the world. Once he saw her shaking a walnut tree, once he saw her sitting on the lawn knitting a blue sweater, three or four times he found a bouquet of late flowers on his porch, or a handful of chestnuts in a little sack, or some autumn leaves neatly pinned to a sheet of white paper and thumb-tacked to his door. |
434 |
8 |
1.056 |
174.77 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
144.42 |
144.42 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 77. |
#4190443 |
It was a natural pause and there was applause, but as it burst I realized that the flow of words had stopped. What would I do when they started to listen again? I leaned forward, straining to see through the barrier of light. They were mine, out there, and I couldn't afford to lose them. Yet I suddenly felt naked, sensing that the words were returning and that something was about to be said that I shouldn't reveal. |
418 |
12 |
1.055 |
146.86 — Ian Brandon Anderson (hi_i_... |
130.81 |
130.81 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 78. |
#4190439 |
It was a period of quietness. I paid my way with my compensation money and found living with her pleasant except for her constant talk about leadership and responsibility. And even this was not too bad as long as I could pay my way. It was, however, a small compensation, and when after several months my money ran out and I was looking again for a job, I found her exceedingly irritating to listen to. |
402 |
17 |
1.055 |
204.02 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
124.27 |
124.27 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 79. |
#4190130 |
She still had a lot of time until seven o'clock in the evening but nothing to do in the meantime, no work at the sports club. Following Tamaru's instructions, she had already, she had already deposited her small travel bag and shoulder bag in a coin locker at Shinjuku Station. The travel bag contained a sheaf of bills and enough clothing (including underwear and stockings) for several days. |
393 |
4 |
1.054 |
169.55 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
115.37 |
115.37 |
February 28, 2019 |
| 80. |
#4190397 |
Weeks or months must have passed. It would have been possible now to keep count of the passage of time, if he had felt any interest in doing so, since he was being fed at what appeared to be regular intervals. He was getting, he judged, three meals in the twenty-four hours; sometimes he won- dered dimly whether he was getting them by night or by day. The food was surprisingly good, with meat at every third meal. |
415 |
2 |
1.054 |
132.78 — Firefingers (birthdaykids) |
120.44 |
120.44 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 81. |
#4190447 |
I heard a dry popping sound and saw the man sag, and the pipe rang upon the walk; then someone caught me hard in the stomach and suddenly I knew that I was fighting too. I went to my knees and rolled and pulled erect, facing him. "Get up, Uncle Tom," he said, and I clipped him. He had his hands and I had mine and the match was even but he was not so lucky. He wasn't down and he wasn't out, but I caught him two good ones and he decided to fight elsewhere. |
458 |
4 |
1.054 |
117.63 — (poem) |
104.76 |
104.76 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 82. |
#4190208 |
For their defence in the night the Company climbed to the top of the small hill under which they had been sheltering. It was crowned with a knot of old and twisted trees, about which lay a broken circle of boulder-stones. In the midst of this they lit a fire, for there was no hope that darkness and silence would keep their trail from discovery by the hunting packs. |
367 |
5 |
1.054 |
149.79 — learn dvorak (usa_usa_usa_usa) |
130.35 |
130.35 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 83. |
#4190405 |
He did not attempt to kiss her, nor did they speak. As they walked back across the grass, she looked directly at him for the first time. It was only a momentary glance, full of contempt and dislike. He wondered whether it was a dislike that came purely out of the past or whether it was inspired also by his bloated face and the water that the wind kept squeezing from his eyes. |
378 |
8 |
1.053 |
149.31 — Glevion (glevion) |
122.14 |
122.14 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 84. |
#4190369 |
For the moment it was too difficult to go on. He shut his eyes and pressed his fingers against them, trying to squeeze out the vision that kept recurring. He had an almost overwhelming temptation to shout a string of filthy words at the top of his voice. Or to bang his head against the wall, to kick over the table, and hurl the inkpot through the window - to do any violent or noisy or painful thing that might black out the memory that was tormenting him. |
458 |
9 |
1.053 |
161.49 — Ian Brandon Anderson (hi_i_... |
122.32 |
122.32 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 85. |
#4190392 |
At this moment there was a quick step on the stairs. Julia burst into the room. She was carrying a tool-bag of coarse brown canvas, such as he had sometimes seen her carrying to and fro at the Ministry. He started forward to take her in his arms, but she disengaged herself rather hurriedly, partly because she was still holding the tool-bag. |
342 |
2 |
1.053 |
188.61 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
178.87 |
178.87 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 86. |
#4190200 |
At length they came to land again upon the southern slopes of Amon Lhaw. There they found a shelving shore, and they drew the boat out, high above the water, and hid it as well as they could behind a great boulder. Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadows. |
366 |
9 |
1.053 |
157.89 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
137.67 |
137.67 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 87. |
#4190172 |
Her voice faded off suddenly. The woman of the pearls had joined her two children in the water, and now Abe North came up under one of them like a volcanic island, raising him on his shoulders. The child yelled with fear and delight and the woman watched with a lovely peace, without a smile. |
292 |
14 |
1.052 |
170.66 — Ian Brandon Anderson (hi_i_... |
135.37 |
135.37 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 88. |
#4190233 |
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king. |
298 |
15 |
1.052 |
194.22 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
133.17 |
133.17 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 89. |
#4190234 |
Fear was ever in my heart for my friends in the Shire; but still I had some hope. I hoped that Frodo had set forth at once, as my letter had urged, and that he reached Rivendell before the deadly pursuit began. And both my fear and hope proved ill-founded. For my hope was founded on a fat man in Bree; and my fear was founded on the cunning of Sauron. But fat men who sell ale have many calls to answer; and the power of Sauron is still less than fear makes it. |
462 |
16 |
1.051 |
186.34 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
133.86 |
133.86 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 90. |
#4190085 |
Words are the tools of a speaker's craft. They have special uses, just like the tools of any other profession. Have you ever watched a carpenter at work? The job that would take you or me a couple of hours is done by the carpenter in 10 minutes - with the right tools. |
268 |
11 |
1.051 |
199.02 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
151.07 |
151.07 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 91. |
#4190341 |
The beauty of the inertial balance is that it gives us a method of mass comparison that is based directly on the notion of mass as resistance to being accelerated. In practice, an inertial balance would be very awkward to use, and it is fortunate that there are much easier ways to compare masses, of which the easiest is to weigh the objects. |
343 |
8 |
1.050 |
160.41 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
121.64 |
121.64 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 92. |
#4190169 |
Drool pumped himself dry and sat down on the floor splay-legged, huffing like a great dribbling bellows. I tried to help the lout repack his tackle, but getting him into a codpiece against his firm enthusiasm was like trying to pound a bucket over a bull's head - a scenario I thought comical enough to perhaps work into the act tonight, should things get slow. |
361 |
4 |
1.049 |
194.72 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
148.41 |
148.41 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 93. |
#4190346 |
In the 1920s, when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies, they found something most peculiar: there were the same characteristic sets of missing colors as for stars in our own galaxy, but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum. |
303 |
6 |
1.049 |
187.88 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
139.28 |
139.28 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 94. |
#4190426 |
And I'm still settin' there when she comes back with some women to see 'bout Matty Lou. Won't nobody speak to me, though they looks at me like I'm some new kinda cotton-pickin' machine. I feels bad. I tells them how it happened in a dream, but they scorns me. I gits plum out of the house then. I goes to see the preacher and even he don't believe me. He tells me to get out of his house, that I'm the most wicked man he's ever seen and that I better go confess my sin and make my peace with God. |
496 |
11 |
1.049 |
181.51 — mako (mako640) |
122.32 |
122.32 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 95. |
#4190223 |
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew. Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew. Beyond the sun, beyond the moon, the foam was on the sea. |
185 |
8 |
1.048 |
189.32 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
143.24 |
143.24 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 96. |
#4190120 |
He gave her a slight nod, and, after uttering a short greeting that she found barely audible, he said nothing further. Today there was none of their usual banter. He walked ahead of her down a long corridor and did not look back, instead guiding her to where the dowager waited. |
278 |
6 |
1.047 |
177.76 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
111.30 |
111.30 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 97. |
#4190139 |
Clerval, who had watched my countenance as I read this letter, was surprised to observe the despair that succeeded the joy I at first expressed on receiving news from my friends. I threw the letter on the table, and covered my face with my hands. |
246 |
6 |
1.046 |
171.56 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
129.28 |
129.28 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 98. |
#4190086 |
You can't drive a nail with a screwdriver or turn a screw with a hammer. It is the same with public speaking. You must choose the right words for the job you wan to do. |
168 |
2 |
1.046 |
140.50 — Matthew (courtreporter) |
111.80 |
111.80 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 99. |
#4190044 |
Sloterdijk explains that, in the end phase of globalization, the world system completed its development and, as a capitalist system, came to determine all conditions of life. |
174 |
9 |
1.045 |
197.76 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
135.03 |
135.03 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 100. |
#4190325 |
One of the objects of the foregoing chapters has been to escape from this double life and to bring the theory of prices as a whole back to close contact with the theory of value. The division of economics between the theory of value and distribution on the one hand and the theory of money on the other hand is, I think, a false division. |
338 |
10 |
1.044 |
176.48 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
136.73 |
136.73 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 101. |
#4190026 |
Along with overcoming specific culprits of poor listening, you can also improve your general listening skills by focusing on interactive listening, which includes filtering out distractions, focusing on the speaker(s), and showing that you are paying attention. |
261 |
7 |
1.044 |
152.67 — Firefingers (birthdaykids) |
127.59 |
127.59 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 102. |
#4190372 |
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. |
398 |
6 |
1.044 |
180.01 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
122.75 |
122.75 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 103. |
#4190437 |
With a shamed frown, he opened his mouth. I saw a blue flash of shrunken gums. The thing that had skittered across the floor was not a knife, but a plate of false teeth. For a fraction of a second I was desperate, feeling some of my justification for wanting to kill him slipping away. My fingers leaped to my shoulder, finding wet cloth but no blood. |
351 |
15 |
1.044 |
168.00 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
134.61 |
134.61 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 104. |
#4190174 |
She was right going at it that way. But the space between heaven and earth had cooled his mind, destroyed the impulsiveness that had led him to bring her here, and made him aware of the too obvious appeal, the struggle with an unrehearsed scene and unfamiliar words. |
266 |
5 |
1.043 |
174.73 — mako (mako640) |
158.77 |
158.77 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 105. |
#4190428 |
Five men charged the stairs. I saw the giant bend and clutch the posts at the top of the stairs with both hands, bracing himself, his body gleaming bare in his white shorts. The little man who had slapped Mr. Norton was in front, and, as he sprang up the long flight, I saw the attendant set himself and kick, catching the little man just as he reached the top, hard in the chest, sending him backwards in a curving dive into the midst of the men behind him. Supercargo got set to swing his leg again. It was a narrow stair and only one man could get up at a time. |
564 |
15 |
1.043 |
197.91 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
144.23 |
144.23 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 106. |
#4190154 |
Lily frowned, trying to remember. "Our leader told us, when he made the welcome speech, but I can't remember. I guess I wasn't paying attention. It was from another community. They had to leave very early, and they had their midday meal on the bus." |
249 |
11 |
1.043 |
176.01 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
146.90 |
146.90 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 107. |
#4190260 |
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a common farmer or a king - every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that seeking counts more than the finding. So too must the striving count more than the gain. |
376 |
14 |
1.042 |
168.62 — (sidd_) |
140.54 |
140.54 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 108. |
#4190191 |
The ground now became damp, and in places boggy and here and there they came upon pools, and wide stretches of reeds and rushes filled with the warbling of little hidden birds. They had to pick their way carefully to keep both dry-footed and on their proper course. |
265 |
10 |
1.042 |
194.38 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
135.40 |
135.40 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 109. |
#4190127 |
Finally he stood up and made several attempts to smooth out the tiny wrinkles in his suit but succeeded only in making them more obvious. "If you should change your mind about the grant, please call the number on my card whenever you feel like it. There is still plenty of time. If this year is no good for you, well, there's always next year." |
344 |
20 |
1.042 |
183.90 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
126.60 |
126.60 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 110. |
#4190222 |
You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous. Yet I think, Frodo, that you have courage and wisdom enough for the venture, or I would not have brought you here. |
259 |
6 |
1.042 |
128.06 — spectating (minhxuan2507) |
114.69 |
114.69 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 111. |
#4190409 |
The voice from the telescreen was still pouring forth its tale of prisoners and booty and slaughter, but the shouting outside had died down a little. The waiters were turning back to their work. One of them approached with the gin bottle. Winston, sitting in a blissful dream, paid no attention as his glass was filled up. He was not running or cheering any longer. |
365 |
13 |
1.041 |
169.26 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
134.92 |
134.92 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 112. |
#4190307 |
That is to say, the wage of an employed person is equal to the value which would be lost if employment were to be reduced by one unit (after deducting any other costs which this reduction of output would avoid); subject, however, to the qualification that the equality may be disturbed, in accordance with certain principles, if competition and markets are imperfect. |
367 |
7 |
1.041 |
147.62 — Dylan (dr_gammaray) |
120.30 |
120.30 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 113. |
#4190084 |
What separates these two viewpoints? Not the capabilities of modern medicine; not the conditions of the people with genetic disorders; not the medical procedures of using stem cells. All those are the same for both sides. The difference is in the meaning given to them by the words that label them. |
298 |
10 |
1.041 |
196.02 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
145.14 |
145.14 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 114. |
#4190429 |
The wheel felt like an alien thing in my hands as I followed the white line of the highway. Heat rays from the late afternoon sun arose from the gray concrete, shimmering like the weary tones of a distant bugle blown upon still midnight air. In the mirror I could see Mr. Norton staring out vacantly upon the empty fields, his mouth stern, his white forehead livid where it had scraped the screen. And seeing him I felt the fear balled coldly within me unfold. |
460 |
19 |
1.040 |
187.28 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
126.36 |
126.36 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 115. |
#4190301 |
All problems in the optics of moving bodies can be solved by the method here employed. What is essential is, that the electric and magnetic force of the light which is influenced by a moving body, be transformed into a system of coordinates at rest relatively to the body. By this means all problems in the optics of moving bodies will be reduced to a series of problems in the optics of stationary bodies. |
406 |
6 |
1.040 |
181.48 — mako (mako640) |
133.25 |
133.25 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 116. |
#4190378 |
Winston wondered vaguely to what century the church belonged. It was always difficult to determine the age of a London building. Anything large and impressive, if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as having been built since the Revolution, while anything that was obviously of earlier date was ascribed to some dim period called the Middle Ages. The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of any value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. |
542 |
10 |
1.039 |
172.74 — mako (mako640) |
127.29 |
127.29 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 117. |
#4190386 |
She need not have told him that. But for the moment they could not extricate themselves from the crowd. The trucks were still filing past, the people still insatiably gaping. At the start there had been a few boos and hisses, but it came only from the Party members among the crowd, and had soon stopped. |
304 |
5 |
1.039 |
153.28 — (sidd_) |
140.82 |
140.82 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 118. |
#4190198 |
Frodo said nothing, but he put his hand under his tunic and touched the rings of his mail-shirt. He felt staggered to think that he had been walking about with the price of the Shire under his jacket. Had Bilbo known? He felt no doubt that Bilbo knew quite well. It was indeed a kingly gift. |
291 |
2 |
1.039 |
113.75 — (bruhdooh) |
110.34 |
110.34 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 119. |
#4190374 |
He paused for a moment at the top of the steps. On the opposite side of the alley there was a dingy little pub whose windows appeared to be frosted over but in reality were merely coated with dust. A very old man, bent but active, with white moustaches that bristled forward like those of a prawn, pushed open the swing door and went in. |
337 |
8 |
1.038 |
168.70 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
141.19 |
141.19 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 120. |
#4190202 |
As the evening drew on, Frodo woke up again, and he found that he no longer felt in need of rest or sleep, but had a mind for food and drink, and probably for singing and story-telling afterwards. |
196 |
9 |
1.038 |
189.04 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
157.66 |
157.66 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 121. |
#4190189 |
The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errants meet. And whither then? I cannot say. |
252 |
4 |
1.038 |
151.87 — ANDREA (andreaak00) |
124.95 |
124.95 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 122. |
#4190193 |
They were too overjoyed to hear him speak to answer for a while; nor did they understand his question. At length he gathered from Sam that they had seen nothing but vague shadowy shapes coming towards them. Suddenly to his horror Sam found that his master had vanished; and at that moment a black shadow rushed passed him, and he fell. |
335 |
5 |
1.037 |
172.50 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
148.41 |
148.41 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 123. |
#4190225 |
The hills grew nearer. They made undulating ridge, often rising almost to a thousand feet, and here and there falling again to low clefts or passes leading into the eastern land beyond. Along the crest of the ridge the hobbits could see what looked to be remains of old works of stone. By night they had reached the feet of the westward slopes, and there they camped. It was the night of the fifth of October, and they were six days out from Bree. |
447 |
8 |
1.037 |
181.41 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
155.38 |
155.38 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 124. |
#4190136 |
If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies. |
521 |
4 |
1.037 |
130.54 — Wabadaba (wabadaba) |
118.56 |
118.56 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 125. |
#4190433 |
But I no longer listened, nor saw more than the play of light upon the metallic disks of his glasses, which now seemed to float within the disgusting sea of his words. Truth, truth, what was truth? Nobody I knew, not even my own mother, would believe me if I tried to tell them. |
278 |
9 |
1.037 |
167.87 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
135.45 |
135.45 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 126. |
#4190148 |
I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them). |
330 |
10 |
1.037 |
149.28 — Calculus (uchihalol) |
119.56 |
119.56 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 127. |
#4190268 |
Of all animals in the world, the dolphin is the focus of special attention this year. This idea will bring us humans closer together, too, because dolphins are a part of everyday life and culture in many countries. You will find them in stories, fairy tales and even on flags. Humans and dolphins used to have a very close and friendly relationship; which is illustrated in various myths and legends. However this is no longer the case in all parts of the world. In some countries, people hunt dolphins in the belief that dolphins eat so many fish that there are not enough left for the fishermen to catch. In other countries, dolphins are still honoured by the people of today as intelligent creatures which should be protected, and as friends of the human race. |
763 |
15 |
1.037 |
206.50 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
128.86 |
128.86 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 128. |
#4190196 |
These doors are probably governed by words. Some dwarf-gates will open only at special times, or for particular reasons, or for particular persons; and some have locks and keys that are still needed when all the necessary times and words are known. |
248 |
6 |
1.036 |
183.78 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
139.29 |
139.29 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 129. |
#4190250 |
At the back end of the mushroom grove, the southern wall of the cavern that housed Menzoberranzan, was a small, heavily guarded cave. Beyond the ironbound doors stood a single room, used only for gatherings of the city's eight ruling matron mothers. |
249 |
8 |
1.036 |
162.33 — (sidd_) |
129.39 |
129.39 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 130. |
#4190365 |
One possible answer is the anthropic principle. Two space dimensions do not seem to be enough to allow for the development of complicated beings like us. For example, two-dimensional animals living on a one-dimensional earth would have to climb over each other in order to get past each other. |
293 |
7 |
1.036 |
169.98 — mako (mako640) |
134.13 |
134.13 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 131. |
#4190170 |
Earlier that day, dressing in his own dwelling, he had practiced the kind of jaunty, self-assured walk that he hoped he could make to the stage when his turn came. All of that was forgotten now. He simply willed himself to stand, to move his feet that felt weighted and clumsy, to go forward, up the steps and across the platform until he stood at her side. |
357 |
9 |
1.035 |
176.54 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
139.70 |
139.70 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 132. |
#4190348 |
Force-carrying particles can be grouped into four categories according to the strength of the force that they carry and the particles with which they interact. It should be emphasized that this division into four classes is man-made; it is convenient for the construction of partial theories, but it may not correspond to anything deeper. |
338 |
7 |
1.035 |
183.18 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
135.08 |
135.08 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 133. |
#4190177 |
No one was going to have to rescue her again, not from a rattlesnake, not from Apache marauders, not from the wrath of God himself. In the two weeks since Jake had dropped her, without a word and apparently without a thought, on her doorstep, she'd increased her daily rifle practice. Her aim had sharpened a great deal since she'd taken to imagining that the empty bottles and cans were Jake's grinning face. |
409 |
5 |
1.034 |
138.97 — zetria (primalknight) |
110.72 |
110.72 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 134. |
#4190016 |
In the United States, public speakers have increasingly needed to consider the range of cultures represented by their audience members as American society has grown more culturally diverse. |
189 |
9 |
1.034 |
180.46 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
130.44 |
130.44 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 135. |
#4190211 |
When in doubt on how to improve, the answer is always simple. If you move your fingers faster in the correct order at a faster pace than usual, you will certainly see your scores improve. |
187 |
15 |
1.034 |
172.95 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
132.31 |
132.31 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 136. |
#4190217 |
It is told that she had a house built in the branches of a tree that grew near the falls; for that was the custom of the Elves of Lorien to dwell in the trees, and maybe it is so still. Therefore they were called the Galadhrim, the Tree-people. |
244 |
4 |
1.034 |
133.23 — Joseph (repeatercreeper) |
104.67 |
104.67 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 137. |
#4190416 |
And then, Clarisse was gone. He didn't know what there was about the afternoon, but it was not seeing her somewhere in the world. The lawn was empty, the trees empty, the street empty, and while at first he did not even know he missed her or was even looking for her, the fact was that by the time he reached the subway, there were vague stirrings of unease in him. |
365 |
4 |
1.034 |
153.66 — ANDREA (andreaak00) |
144.45 |
144.45 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 138. |
#4190029 |
A survey is a set of written questions that you ask your audience to answer in advance of your speech. Surveys allow you to ask your future audience members direct questions about topics related to your speech. |
210 |
6 |
1.033 |
169.07 — mako (mako640) |
156.92 |
156.92 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 139. |
#4190314 |
So far as I know, everyone agrees in meaning by saving the excess of income over what is spent on consumption. It would certainly be very inconvenient and misleading not to mean this. Nor is there any important difference of opinion as to what is meant by expenditure on consumption. Thus the differences of usage arise either out of the definition of investment or out of that of income. |
388 |
6 |
1.033 |
155.91 — Glevion (glevion) |
128.69 |
128.69 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 140. |
#4190285 |
Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander in Europe, had no counterpart in the Pacific. From the beginning of the war, rivalry between the Army and the Navy marked the conflict. The two services competed for command, territory, and resources. In the vast Pacific, an ocean dotted with thousands of coral islands, there should have been ample room for both. But interservice rivalries and great distances prevented a single unified commander from being named, until General Douglas MacArthur became Supreme Commander. |
508 |
5 |
1.032 |
187.47 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
167.63 |
167.63 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 141. |
#4190359 |
The first indication that the laws of physics might really allow people to travel in time came in 1949 when Kurt Godel discovered a new space-time allowed by general relativity. Godel was a mathematician who was famous for proving that it is impossible to prove all true statements, even if you limit yourself to trying to prove all the true statements in a subject as apparently cut and dried as arithmetic. |
408 |
7 |
1.032 |
149.06 — zetria (primalknight) |
112.29 |
112.29 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 142. |
#4190383 |
The next day she reappeared. Her arm was out of the sling and she had a band of sticking-plaster round her wrist. The relief of seeing her was so great that he could not resist staring directly at her for several seconds. On the following day he very nearly succeeded in speaking to her. When he came into the canteen she was sitting at a table well out from the wall, and was quite alone. |
389 |
3 |
1.032 |
141.49 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
128.19 |
128.19 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 143. |
#4190407 |
It must have been about a month before she disappeared. It was a moment of reconciliation, when the nagging hunger in his belly was forgotten and his earlier affection for her had temporarily revived. He remembered the day well, a pelting, drenching day when the water streamed down the window-pane and the light indoors was too dull to read by. The boredom of the two children in the dark, cramped bedroom became unbearable. |
425 |
14 |
1.031 |
176.04 — mako (mako640) |
133.78 |
133.78 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 144. |
#4190158 |
Now, at this special Naming, the community performed the brief Murmur-of-Replacement Ceremony, repeating the name for the first time since the loss: softly and slowly at first, then faster and with greater volume, as the couple stood on the stage with the newchild sleeping in the mother's arms. It was as if the first Caleb were returning. |
340 |
9 |
1.031 |
183.26 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
131.07 |
131.07 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 145. |
#4190355 |
At the big bang itself the universe is thought to have had zero size, and so to have been infinitely hot. But as the universe expanded, the temperature of the radiation decreased. One second after the big bang, it would have fallen to about ten thousand million degrees. |
270 |
9 |
1.031 |
136.56 — Preston (prestonvchang) |
117.78 |
117.78 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 146. |
#4190036 |
You've finally had time to break away from your schoolwork and go see the latest James Bond movie. You're sitting in the theater, munching popcorn as the curtains open, the lights dim, and the film's opening sequence starts to roll. |
232 |
6 |
1.030 |
165.54 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
133.78 |
133.78 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 147. |
#4190342 |
Newton realized that, according to his theory of gravity, the stars should attract each other, so it seemed they could not remain essentially motionless. Would they not all fall together at some point? In a letter in 1691 to Richard Bentley, another leading thinker of his day, Newton argued that this would indeed happen if there were only a finite number of stars distributed over a finite region of space. But he reasoned that if, on the other hand, there were an infinite number of stars, distributed more or less uniformly over infinite space, this would not happen, because there would not be any central point for them to fall to. |
637 |
9 |
1.030 |
163.88 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
135.79 |
135.79 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 148. |
#4190071 |
These lonely monad walks in the urban space in tender continuous interaction with the pictures, tweets, games coming out of their small screens, perfectly insulated and perfectly wired into the smooth interface of the flow... |
225 |
4 |
1.030 |
164.88 — (sidd_) |
123.53 |
123.53 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 149. |
#4190133 |
His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support. But Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mold, and her courage rose to support her in her adversity. She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life. |
419 |
5 |
1.029 |
165.94 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
131.37 |
131.37 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 150. |
#4190098 |
When used effectively, color can dramatically increase the impact of a visual aid. The key words, of course, are "when used effectively." Some colors do not work well together. Red and green are a tough combination for anyone to read, and they look the same to people who are color-blind. |
288 |
11 |
1.028 |
162.09 — Cameron (gnikgg) |
131.23 |
131.23 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 151. |
#4190220 |
The sun was shrinking behind the mountains, and the shadows were deepening in the woods, when they went on again. Their paths now went into thickets where the dusk had already gathered. Night came beneath the trees as they walked, and the Elves uncovered their silver lamps. |
274 |
14 |
1.028 |
183.66 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
128.18 |
128.18 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 152. |
#4190113 |
Melodies from previous chapters have included the intervals most frequently used in melodic writing: major and minor seconds, major and minor thirds, major and minor sixths, the perfect fourth, and the perfect fifth. Intervals larger than the second were learned as used in tonic and dominant triads, context very frequently used and easy to read. This chapter presents the same intervals in different contexts. |
411 |
11 |
1.026 |
201.37 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
114.22 |
114.22 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 153. |
#4190423 |
We were driving, the powerful motor purring and filling me with pride and anxiety. The car smelled of mints and cigar smoke. Students looked up and smiled in recognition as we rolled slowly past. I had just come from dinner and in bending forward to suppress a belch, I accidentally pressed the button on the wheel and the belch became a loud and shattering blast of the horn. Folks on the road turned and stared. |
413 |
14 |
1.026 |
167.00 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
121.20 |
121.20 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 154. |
#4190131 |
Aomame was not opposed to losing her identity. If anything, she welcomed it. She was not particularly attached to her name or her face and could think of nothing about her past that she regret losing. |
200 |
7 |
1.025 |
172.67 — mako (mako640) |
134.48 |
134.48 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 155. |
#4190064 |
So much does the appropriation of the object appear as estrangement that the more objects the worker produces the less he can possess and the more he falls under the sway of his product, capital. |
195 |
10 |
1.025 |
163.88 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
144.21 |
144.21 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 156. |
#4190299 |
We now have to prove that any ray of light, measured in the moving system, is propagated with the velocity c, if, as we have assumed, this is the case in the stationary system; for we have not as yet furnished the proof that the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light is compatible with the principle of relativity. |
328 |
7 |
1.025 |
119.05 — B4CK (ayeyuhskuh) |
107.19 |
107.19 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 157. |
#4190032 |
And because communication is a transaction between you and your audience, your audience will be sending you messages during your delivery as well. |
146 |
3 |
1.025 |
107.12 — B R E N loves Mako (pugslyyy) |
94.83 |
94.83 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 158. |
#4190015 |
Most effective and ethical public speakers today take into account the cultural backgrounds of their listeners. By culture, we mean the values, traditions, and rules for living that are passed from generation to generation. |
223 |
14 |
1.024 |
201.22 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
133.10 |
133.10 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 159. |
#4190338 |
In some other respects the foregoing theory is moderately conservative in its implications. For whilst it indicates the vital importance of establishing certain central controls in matters which are now left in the main to individual initiative, there are wide fields of activity which are unaffected. The State will have to exercise a guiding influence on the propensity to consume partly through its scheme of taxation, partly by fixing the rate of interest, and partly, perhaps, in other ways. |
496 |
10 |
1.024 |
197.16 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
138.80 |
138.80 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 160. |
#4190187 |
The story ended. The hobbits moved and stretched. "Look!" said Merry. "The moon is rising: it must be getting late." The others looked up. Even as they did so, they saw on the top of the hill something small and dark against the glimmer of the moonrise. It was perhaps only a large stone or jutting rock shown up by the pale light. |
331 |
13 |
1.023 |
176.71 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
136.67 |
136.67 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 161. |
#4190406 |
He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning. When he woke, seldom before eleven hundred, with gummed-up eyelids and fiery mouth and a back that seemed to be broken, it would have been impossible even to rise from the horizontal if it had not been for the bottle and teacup placed beside the bed overnight. |
554 |
8 |
1.023 |
149.65 — [10FF] Jashe (jakob2000) |
128.08 |
128.08 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 162. |
#4190241 |
Friendship: the word comes to mean many different things among the various races and cultures of both the Underdark and the surface of the Realms. In Menzoberranzan, friendship is generally born out of mutual profit. While both parties are better off in the union, it remains secure. But loyalty is not a tenet of drow life, and as soon as a friend believes that he will gain more without the other, the union - and likely the other's life - will come to a swift end. |
467 |
4 |
1.023 |
140.52 — Cameron (gnikgg) |
120.62 |
120.62 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 163. |
#4190143 |
Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts. |
201 |
3 |
1.023 |
174.48 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
156.85 |
156.85 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 164. |
#4190199 |
At that moment Gandalf lifted his staff, and crying aloud he smote the bridge before him. The staff broke asunder and fell from his hand. A blinding sheet of white flame sprang up. The bridge cracked. Right at the Balrog's feet it broke, and the stone upon which it stood crashed into the gulf, while the rest remained, poised, quivering like a tongue of rock thrust out into emptiness. |
386 |
9 |
1.022 |
201.00 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
135.05 |
135.05 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 165. |
#4190427 |
As I listened I had been so torn between humiliation and fascination that to lessen my sense of shame I had kept my attention riveted upon his intense face. That way I did not have to look at Mr. Norton. But now as the voice ended I sat looking down at Mr. Norton's feet. Out in the yard a woman's hoarse contralto intoned a hymn. Children's voices were raised in playful chatter. I sat bent over, smelling the sharp dry odor of wood burning in the hot sunlight. |
462 |
8 |
1.022 |
157.60 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
141.14 |
141.14 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 166. |
#4190297 |
If at the point A of space there is a clock, an observer at A can determine the time values of events in the immediate proximity of A by finding the positions of the hands which are simultaneous with these events. If there is at the point B of space another clock in all respects resembling the one at A, it is possible for an observer at B to determine the time values of events in the immediate neighborhood of B. |
415 |
7 |
1.022 |
126.32 — nmyo (nmyo) |
83.60 |
83.60 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 167. |
#4190382 |
Obviously the kind of encounter that had happened this morning could not be repeated. If she had worked in the Records Department it might have been comparatively simple, but he had only a very dim idea whereabouts in the building the Fiction Department lay, and he had no pretext for going there. |
297 |
11 |
1.022 |
146.96 — pangea (pangeacake) |
111.56 |
111.56 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 168. |
#4190339 |
Thus, whilst economists were accustomed to applaud the prevailing international system as furnishing the fruits of the international division of labor and harmonizing at the same time the interests of different nations, there lay concealed a less benign influence; and those statesmen were moved by common sense and a correct apprehension of the true course of events, who believed that if a rich, old country were to neglect the struggle for markets its prosperity would droop and fail. |
487 |
5 |
1.022 |
118.05 — jeff (cqyimo42) |
103.99 |
103.99 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 169. |
#4190377 |
Winston came across to examine the picture. It was a steel engraving of an oval building with rectangular windows, and a small tower in front. There was a railing running round the building, and at the rear end there was what appeared to be a statue. Winston gazed at it for some moments. It seemed vaguely familiar, though he did not remember the statue. |
355 |
10 |
1.021 |
155.02 — zapakh (zapakh) |
119.88 |
119.88 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 170. |
#4190184 |
"For selfish reasons, I'm glad to hear it. I was afraid you'd lose heart and leave." He let the horses prance as he turned to smile at her. "I'm very glad you're staying." He pulled up so that they could have a last look at the ranch from the rise. The house spread out, rising two stories, glowing pink in the sunlight, its small glass windows glimmering. Neat paddocks and outbuildings dotted the land, which was cut through by a blue stream and ringed by hills. |
464 |
10 |
1.021 |
202.27 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
118.99 |
118.99 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 171. |
#4190082 |
Contrary to popular belief, language does not mirror reality. It does not simply describe the world as it is. Instead, language helps create our sense of reality by giving meaning to events. |
190 |
7 |
1.020 |
148.90 — Ian Brandon Anderson (hi_i_... |
123.96 |
123.96 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 172. |
#4190236 |
This is the easiest text in this tournament universe, if you got it you are lucky! Have fun typing whatever physics quote comes next. |
133 |
16 |
1.020 |
191.76 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
123.47 |
123.47 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 173. |
#4190114 |
A leap does not always imply a single harmony, even if the two tones are members of the same triad. As an example, look at melody 8.33, which is notated below to reflect canonic performance. |
190 |
6 |
1.019 |
192.80 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
143.69 |
143.69 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 174. |
#4190197 |
I once knew every spell in all the tongues of Elves or Men or Orcs, that was ever used for such a purpose. I can still remember ten score of them without searching in my mind. But only a few trials, I think, will be needed; and I shall not have to call on Gimli for words of the secret dwarf-tongue that they teach to none. |
323 |
3 |
1.019 |
206.21 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
147.35 |
147.35 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 175. |
#4190441 |
It was a long block and I had come down into a building that faced not the street but the avenue. A squad of mounted policemen lashed themselves around the corner and galloped past, the horseshoes thudding dully through the snow, the men rising high in their saddles, shouting. I picked up speed, careful not to run, heading away. This was awful. What on earth had I said to have brought on all this? How would it end? Someone might be killed. |
443 |
12 |
1.019 |
186.15 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
134.43 |
134.43 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 176. |
#4190413 |
And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff- adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door. |
245 |
11 |
1.019 |
151.84 — (sidd_) |
118.64 |
118.64 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 177. |
#4190115 |
Continue this melody using mostly stepwise motion and the leap of a third between the last two notes of every measure. Try to sustain the rhythm of constant eighth notes throughout. (You may prefer to deviate from established patterns in the last measure, however.) |
265 |
4 |
1.019 |
135.48 — nmyo (nmyo) |
116.73 |
116.73 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 178. |
#4190272 |
Pasta can be made two ways. One way is by hand and is usually called artisan pasta. The other way is by machines, which make the and it is the pasta we buy in markets in boxes and packages. For both of these ways, the first step is to grind the durum wheat kernels into semolina. This durum wheat semolina is then carefully mixed with water, pressed into pasta shapes, and dried. |
379 |
12 |
1.019 |
202.21 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
151.24 |
151.24 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 179. |
#4190294 |
An attractive feature of a course in classical mechanics is that it is a wonderful opportunity to learn to use many of the mathematical techniques needed in so many other branches of physics - vectors, vector calculus, differential equations, complex numbers, Taylor series, Fourier series, calculus of variations, and matrices. I have tried to give at least a minimal review or introduction for each of these topics (with references to further reading) and to teach their use in the usually quite simple context of classical mechanics. |
536 |
14 |
1.018 |
196.73 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
136.77 |
136.77 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 180. |
#4190033 |
Given the fact that audience-driven presentations are consistently the most effective, we strongly encourage you to analyze your audience in advance of your presentation, and to use that analysis as a tool to shape your main points, supporting material, and even delivery (including time and visual aids). |
305 |
5 |
1.018 |
138.15 — (jlachney) |
112.25 |
112.25 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 181. |
#4190308 |
A brief summary of the theory of employment to be worked out in the course of the following chapters may, perhaps, help the reader at this stage, even though it may not be fully intelligible. The terms involved will be more carefully defined in due course. In this summary we shall assume that the money-wage and other factor costs are constant per unit of labor employed. But this simplification, with which we shall dispense later, is introduced solely to facilitate the exposition. |
484 |
10 |
1.018 |
193.48 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
148.66 |
148.66 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 182. |
#4190175 |
Soon after sunrise, Sarah awoke, stiff and sore and hungry. She rolled over, wanting to cling to sleep until Lucilla's maid brought the morning chocolate. She'd had the most awful dream about some gray-eyed man carrying her off to a hot, desolate place. He'd been handsome, the way men in dreams were supposed to be, but in a rugged, almost uncivilized way. His skin had been like bronze, taut over his face. He'd had high, almost exotic cheekbones, and the dark shadow of a beard. His hair had been untidy and as black as coal-but thick, quite thick, as it had swept down past his collar. She'd wondered, even in the dream, what it would be like to run her hands through it. |
675 |
21 |
1.018 |
196.58 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
137.75 |
137.75 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 183. |
#4190146 |
The family, after having been thus occupied for a short time, extinguished their lights and retired, as I conjectured, to rest. |
127 |
7 |
1.017 |
151.61 — ⛧🦇🎃💀🎃🦇⛧ ... |
120.08 |
120.08 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 184. |
#4190093 |
Since graduating from college, you have developed a successful business that is located near the campus. As part of its plan to involve more alumni and community members in college affairs, the school has asked you to speak with new students during registration week for the fall term. In the opening section of your speech, you want the audience to feel what you felt the first few days you were on campus as a new student. The best strategy, you decide, is to present two or three similes that complete the sentence "Beginning college is like...." |
549 |
9 |
1.017 |
172.61 — mako (mako640) |
139.32 |
139.32 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 185. |
#4190027 |
Advance preparation is key to ensuring that your audience will truly listen to your message. Be sure to consider your audience's needs as well as outside factors, and plan your speech accordingly. |
196 |
9 |
1.016 |
170.83 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
130.53 |
130.53 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 186. |
#4190311 |
This leads us to the relevance of this discussion for our present purpose. It is evident from the above that the level of employment at any time depends, in a sense, not merely on the existing state of expectation but on the states of expectation which have existed over a certain past period. |
293 |
6 |
1.015 |
183.75 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
149.59 |
149.59 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 187. |
#4190277 |
World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose. |
515 |
11 |
1.015 |
151.58 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
117.21 |
117.21 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 188. |
#4190345 |
Light rays too must follow geodesics in space-time. Again, the fact that space is curved means that light no longer appears to travel in straight lines in space. So general relativity predicts that light should be bent by gravitational fields. For example, the theory predicts that the light cones of points near the sun would be slightly bent inward, on account of the mass of the sun. |
386 |
6 |
1.015 |
205.21 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
144.45 |
144.45 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 189. |
#4190287 |
Decorating your Goldfish home provides a hiding place for your fish during times of stress. You should only use decorations, such as gravel, ornaments, and plants, designed for use with fish. A small plant, either plastic or real, will help to duplicate a more natural environment for your fish. Make sure to purchase aquarium cleaner along with the container. Household cleaning products, including soap, are harmful to fish. |
426 |
7 |
1.015 |
180.53 — mako (mako640) |
124.27 |
124.27 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 190. |
#4190425 |
I saw the sun blaze upon the new blue overalls as the man appeared around the cabin. His shoes were tan and new and he moved easily over the hot earth. He was a small man and he covered the yard with a familiarity that would have allowed him to walk in the blackest darkness with the same certainty. He came and said something to the women as he fanned himself with a blue bandanna handkerchief. |
395 |
6 |
1.015 |
169.06 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
122.02 |
122.02 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 191. |
#4190317 |
We have shown above that for a commodity to be the standard of value is not a sufficient condition for that commodity's rate of interest to be the significant rate of interest. It is, however, interesting to consider how far those characteristics of money as we know it, which make the money-rate of interest the significant rate, are bound up with money being the standard in which debts and wages are usually fixed. |
417 |
8 |
1.015 |
156.23 — Glevion (glevion) |
131.78 |
131.78 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 192. |
#4190116 |
Improvise a consequent phrase to answer the antecedent phrase provided below. Try to begin the second phrase with contrasting material, but be careful to maintain the established hemiola pattern throughout. End with a very strong cadential gesture so that the final cadence sounds more conclusive than the cadence in measure 4. |
327 |
10 |
1.015 |
154.63 — (sidd_) |
138.17 |
138.17 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 193. |
#4190030 |
In addition to distributing surveys, you may want to interview audience members. Ideally you will do so in person, but you can also conduct interviews over the phone or even via e-mail or instant message. |
204 |
10 |
1.014 |
162.12 — zapakh (zapakh) |
127.29 |
127.29 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 194. |
#4190390 |
She had no memories of anything before the early sixties and the only person she had ever known who talked frequently of the days before the Revolution was a grandfather who had disappeared when she was eight. At school she had been captain of the hockey team and had won the gymnastics trophy two years running. |
312 |
4 |
1.014 |
148.93 — Preston (prestonvchang) |
127.30 |
127.30 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 195. |
#4190159 |
Elevens. It seemed a short time ago that Jonas had undergone the Ceremony of Eleven, but he remembered that it was not one of the more interesting ones. By Eleven, one was only waiting to be Twelve. It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes. There was new clothing: different undergarments for the females, whose bodies were beginning to change; and longer trousers for the males, with a specially shaped pocket for the small calculator that they would use this year in school; but those were simply presented in wrapped packages without an accompanying speech. |
578 |
4 |
1.014 |
184.44 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
163.05 |
163.05 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 196. |
#4190074 |
No longer in a cape and coffin, today's vampire resides in major cities, listens to punk music, embraces technology and adapts to any situation. |
144 |
11 |
1.014 |
187.18 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
145.00 |
145.00 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 197. |
#4190364 |
In 1984 interest in strings suddenly revived, apparently for two reasons. One was that people were not really making much progress toward showing that supergravity was finite or that it could explain the kinds of particles that we observe. The other was the publication of a paper by John Schwarz and Mike Green of Queen Mary College, London, that showed that string theory might be able to explain the existence of particles that have a built-in left-handedness, like some of the particles that we observe. |
507 |
1 |
1.013 |
122.51 — ⛧🦇🎃💀🎃🦇⛧ ... |
122.51 |
122.51 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 198. |
#4190179 |
Seemed like some men from town got liquored up and decided they didn't want no breed that close by. John and his missus had had trouble before, like I said, but this went past hard words and threats. They started out to burn the barn, raise hell. One of them started shooting. Maybe they'd meant to all along, there's no saying. When it was over, they'd burned them out and left the family for dead." |
400 |
4 |
1.013 |
183.82 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
155.50 |
155.50 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 199. |
#4190309 |
This assumption of homogeneity in the supply of labor is not upset by the obvious fact of great differences in the specialized skill of individual workers and in their suitability for different occupations. For, if the remuneration of the workers is proportional to their efficiency, the differences are dealt with by our having regarded individuals as contributing to the supply of labor in proportion to their remuneration. |
425 |
6 |
1.013 |
167.52 — mako (mako640) |
124.58 |
124.58 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 200. |
#4190001 |
While you gaze at the sea,' I said, 'I dig roots. And it is I who will eat them and you who will not.' Ramo began to punch at the earth with his stick, but as the ship came closer, its sails showing red through the morning mist, he kept watching it, acting all the time as if he were not. |
288 |
13 |
1.013 |
182.12 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
118.53 |
118.53 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 201. |
#4190302 |
The novel feature of the structure is the manner in which the two chains are held together by the purine and pyrimidine bases. The planes of the bases are perpendicular to the fiber axis. They are joined together in pairs, a single base from one chain being hydrogen bonded to a single base from the other chain, so that the two lie side by side with identical z-coordinates. One of the pair must be a purine and the other a pyrimidine for bonding to occur. |
457 |
4 |
1.013 |
124.36 — Wabadaba (wabadaba) |
112.36 |
112.36 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 202. |
#4190106 |
To help you become proficient in sight singing, this text provides you with many carefully graded music examples. Beginning in this chapter, you will perform the simplest of exercises in reading rhythm, after which you will perform easy melodic lines that incorporate those same rhythmic patterns. |
297 |
7 |
1.012 |
168.14 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
132.80 |
132.80 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 203. |
#4190123 |
The dowager nodded. "Yes, where could a ten-year-old girl- all alone, in pajamas, with no money - possibly go in the middle of the night? It's inconceivable, using ordinary common sense. But for some reason, I don't find it all that strange. Far from it. I even get the feeling that it was something that had to happen. We're not even looking for her. I'm not doing anything, just watching the goldfish like this. |
413 |
5 |
1.012 |
122.73 — maximum typer pro (pivot5) |
112.13 |
112.13 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 204. |
#4190270 |
Dolphins, like other wild migratory animals, are born free. The oceans, seas and rivers of the World are their natural home. Sadly, their home is increasingly a dangerous place. Thousands of dolphins die every year, accidentally caught in fishing nets. Others are harmed by dangerous chemicals which humans release into our rivers and seas. CMS speaks up for dolphins and other marine mammals. We encourage governments to protect them and preserve their liberty. If you want to help us, please look at the ideas in this manual. |
527 |
10 |
1.012 |
139.95 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
119.31 |
119.31 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 205. |
#4190161 |
But the next morning he had done it again. And again the following week. He couldn't seem to stop, though for each lapse the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher's legs. Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was a Three. |
315 |
10 |
1.012 |
146.54 — (keegant) |
120.19 |
120.19 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 206. |
#4190327 |
It is probable that the general level of prices will not rise very much as output increases, so long as there are available efficient unemployed resources of every type. But as soon as output has increased sufficiently to begin to reach the bottle-necks, there is likely to be a sharp rise in the prices of certain commodities. |
327 |
16 |
1.012 |
180.31 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
125.80 |
125.80 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 207. |
#4190389 |
Quickly, with an occasional crackle of twigs, they threaded their way back to the clearing. When they were once inside the ring of saplings she turned and faced him. They were both breathing fast, but the smile had reappeared round the corners of her mouth. |
257 |
17 |
1.012 |
186.71 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
126.78 |
126.78 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 208. |
#4190344 |
An event is something that happens at a particular point in space and at a particular time. So one can specify it by four numbers or coordinates. Again, the choice of coordinates is arbitrary; one can use any three well-defined spatial coordinates and any measure of time. In relativity, there is no real distinction between the space and time coordinates, just as there is no real difference between any two space coordinates. |
427 |
7 |
1.012 |
167.63 — mako (mako640) |
122.28 |
122.28 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 209. |
#4190398 |
By degrees he came to spend less time in sleep, but he still felt no impulse to get off the bed. All he cared for was to lie quiet and feel the strength gathering in his body. He would finger himself here and there, trying to make sure that it was not an illusion that his muscles were growing rounder and his skin tauter. Finally it was established beyond a doubt that he was growing fatter; his thighs were now definitely thicker than his knees. After that, reluctantly at first, he began exercising himself regularly. |
520 |
14 |
1.011 |
191.61 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
149.65 |
149.65 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 210. |
#4190269 |
To give dolphins better protection, dolphin lovers want to bring together the responsible people from as many countries as possible to pass international laws. As soon as the countries agree about protecting dolphins in a particular region, they sign a Regional Agreement. This contains all of the rules that have been agreed to protect the dolphins in the waters they live in. One very good measure, for instance, is the establishment of large marine protected areas which extend across national frontiers. |
507 |
11 |
1.011 |
180.73 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
127.19 |
127.19 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 211. |
#4190264 |
Cooking or cookery is the art, technology, science and craft of preparing food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends. The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has. Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants and other food establishments. Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, such as in ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice. |
768 |
5 |
1.011 |
143.03 — Firefingers (birthdaykids) |
125.22 |
125.22 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 212. |
#4190362 |
Despite these problems, and the fact that the particles in the super-gravity theories did not seem to match the observed particles, most scientists believed that supergravity was probably the right answer to the problem of the unification of physics. It seemed the best way of unifying gravity with the other forces. However, in 1984 there was a remarkable change of opinion in favor of what are called string theories. |
419 |
8 |
1.011 |
162.42 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
133.83 |
133.83 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 213. |
#4190435 |
It was a clear, bright day when I went out, and the sun burned warm upon my eyes. Only a few flecks of snowy cloud hung high in the morning-blue sky, and already a woman was hanging wash on a roof. I felt better walking along. A feeling of confidence grew. Far down the island the skyscrapers rose tall and mysterious in the thin, pastel haze. A milk truck went past. |
367 |
4 |
1.011 |
142.90 — Dylan (dr_gammaray) |
124.04 |
124.04 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 214. |
#4190203 |
To some there Bilbo's tale was wholly new, and they listened with amazement while the old hobbit, actually not at all displeased, recounted his adventure with Gollum, at full length. He did not omit a single riddle. He would have given also an account of his party and disappearance from the Shire, if he had been allowed; but Elrond raised his hand. |
350 |
6 |
1.010 |
180.37 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
149.96 |
149.96 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 215. |
#4190141 |
Six years had elapsed, passed in a dream but for one indelible trace, and I stood in the same place where I had last embraced my father before my departure for Ingolstadt. |
171 |
14 |
1.010 |
185.89 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
133.51 |
133.51 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 216. |
#4190434 |
My doubts grew. Perhaps all was not well. I remained in my room all the next day. I grew conscious that I was afraid; more afraid here in my room than I had ever been in the South. And all the more, because here there was nothing concrete to lay it to. All the secretaries had been encouraging. In the evening I went out to a movie, a picture of frontier life with heroic Indian fighting and struggles against flood, storm and forest fire, with the out-numbered settlers winning each engagement; an epic of wagon trains rolling ever westward. |
542 |
10 |
1.009 |
184.41 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
149.48 |
149.48 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 217. |
#4190253 |
My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hand. |
165 |
9 |
1.009 |
157.18 — (delirious) |
118.16 |
118.16 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 218. |
#4190432 |
Down the sloping lawn below me the male students moved toward their dormitories, seeming far away from me now, remote, and each shadowy form vastly superior to me, who had by some shortcoming cast myself into the darkness away from all that was worthwhile and inspiring. I listened to one group harmonize quietly as they passed. The smell of fresh bread being prepared in the bakery drifted to me. |
397 |
14 |
1.009 |
167.89 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
129.40 |
129.40 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 219. |
#4190160 |
When Two, a female named Inger, received her Assignment as Birthmother, Jonas remembered that his mother had called it a job without honor. But he thought that the Committee had chosen well. Inger was a nice girl though somewhat lazy, and her body was strong. She would enjoy the three years of being pampered that would follow her brief training; she would give birth easily and well; and the task of Laborer that would follow would use her strength, keep her healthy, and impose self-discipline. Inger was smiling when she resumed her seat. Birthmother was an important job, if lacking in prestige. |
600 |
8 |
1.008 |
148.90 — (sidd_) |
121.66 |
121.66 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 220. |
#4190209 |
Round this fire they sat, and those that were not on guard dozed uneasily. Poor Bill the pony trembled and sweated where he stood. The howling of the wolves was now all round them, sometimes nearer and sometimes further off. In the dead of night many shining eyes were seen peering over the brow of the hill. |
308 |
13 |
1.008 |
165.65 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
110.40 |
110.40 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 221. |
#4190411 |
Thank you all for entering this tournament. We hope these quotes are not too hard, since we really tried to even out the text variety. Speaking of which, people often associate their feelings toward a certain exam with the person or organization giving the exam. We promise you that this is not the case. The Clicking Championship 1 Organization Team is a very friendly and sociable group of people. |
399 |
7 |
1.007 |
154.91 — zetria (primalknight) |
127.66 |
127.66 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 222. |
#4190081 |
Below is a sample speaking outline for a six-minute informative talk about service dogs. By comparing it with the preparation outline for the same speech on pages 211-213, you can see how a detailed preparation outline is transformed into a concise speaking outline. |
266 |
9 |
1.007 |
179.54 — Glevion (glevion) |
142.19 |
142.19 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 223. |
#4190410 |
So far as it could be contrived, everything that had or might have political significance of any kind was fitted into the B vocabulary. The name of every organization, or body of people, or doctrine, or country, or institution, or public building, was invariably cut down into the familiar shape; that is, a single easily pronounced word with the smallest number of syllables that would preserve the original derivation. |
420 |
7 |
1.007 |
175.74 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
131.55 |
131.55 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 224. |
#4190251 |
Drizzt found that he believed the sincerity in the gnome's voice, and he had to accept that promise as a measure of mercy far greater than the gnome would have received if Dinin's patrol had captured him. Belwar turned to walk away, but Drizzt, intrigued, had to learn more of the curious creature. |
298 |
13 |
1.007 |
178.60 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
127.06 |
127.06 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 225. |
#4190192 |
The leaves were long, the grass was green. The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, and in the glade a light was seen of stars in shadow shimmering. Tinuviel was dancing there to music of a pipe unseen. Light of stars was in her hair, and her raiment glimmering. |
255 |
14 |
1.005 |
168.71 — mako (mako640) |
138.57 |
138.57 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 226. |
#4190237 |
"You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own ends, and thus you, in your stubborn independence, reject them. The gods are within, I say whether one has named his own or not. You have followed Mielikki all your life, Drizzt. You merely never had a name to put on your heart." |
374 |
3 |
1.005 |
148.66 — Ian Brandon Anderson (hi_i_... |
135.34 |
135.34 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 227. |
#4190361 |
One can, however, have a different but equivalent intuitive picture of the mechanism for emission from black holes. One can regard the member of the virtual pair that fell into the black hole (say, the antiparticle) as a particle traveling backward in time out of the hole. When it gets to the point at which the virtual particle/antiparticle pair appeared together, it is scattered by the gravitational field into a particle traveling forward in time and escaping from the black hole. |
485 |
5 |
1.004 |
166.83 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
156.14 |
156.14 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 228. |
#4190357 |
There are two versions of the anthropic principle, the weak and the strong. The weak anthropic principle states that in a universe that is large or infinite in space and/or time, the conditions necessary for the development of intelligent life will be met only in certain regions that are limited in space and time. |
315 |
10 |
1.004 |
161.04 — (sidd_) |
130.75 |
130.75 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 229. |
#4190055 |
One should avoid essentialism here: there is not a single 'real' goal pursued by protesters, something to which the general feeling of unease can be reduced. |
157 |
16 |
1.004 |
191.52 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
130.50 |
130.50 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 230. |
#4190248 |
The greatest king with the largest army in the most invulnerable fortress is not necessarily a man at peace. Far from it, for the irony of it all is that the acquisition of such material wealth can work against any hope of true serenity. But beyond any physical securities there lies yet another form of unrest, one that neither the king nor the peasant will escape. Even that great king, even the simplest begger will, at times, be full of the unspeakable anger we all sometimes feel. |
485 |
4 |
1.004 |
147.54 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
139.70 |
139.70 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 231. |
#4190328 |
Thus, in addition to the final critical point of full employment at which money-wages have to rise, in response to an increasing effective demand in terms of money, fully in proportion to the rise in the prices of wage-goods, we have a succession of earlier semi-critical points at which an increasing effective demand tends to raise money-wages though not fully in proportion to the rise in the price of wage-goods. |
416 |
6 |
1.004 |
163.76 — Glevion (glevion) |
132.92 |
132.92 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 232. |
#4190337 |
Since the war there has been a spate of heretical theories of under-consumption, of which those of Major Douglas are the most famous. The strength of Major Douglas's advocacy has, of course, largely depended on orthodoxy having no valid reply to much of his destructive criticism. |
280 |
11 |
1.003 |
205.92 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
131.93 |
131.93 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 233. |
#4190350 |
Black holes are one of only a fairly small number of cases in the history of science in which a theory was developed in great detail as a mathematical model before there was any evidence from observations that it was correct. Indeed, this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes: how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity? |
425 |
6 |
1.003 |
163.99 — (sidd_) |
138.38 |
138.38 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 234. |
#4190300 |
The analogy holds with magnetomotive forces. We see that electromotive force plays in the developed theory merely the part of an auxiliary concept, which owes its introduction to the circumstance that electric and magnetic forces do not exist independently of the state of motion of the system of coordinates. |
309 |
5 |
1.003 |
189.20 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
120.66 |
120.66 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 235. |
#4190379 |
It was after twenty-two hours when he got back to the flat. The lights would be switched off at the main at twenty-three thirty. He went into the kitchen and swallowed nearly a teacupful of Victory Gin. Then he went to the table in the alcove, sat down, and took the diary out of the drawer. But he did not open it at once. From the telescreen a brassy female voice was squalling a patriotic song. He sat staring at the marbled cover of the book, trying without success to shut the voice out of his consciousness. |
513 |
11 |
1.003 |
189.74 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
125.40 |
125.40 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 236. |
#4190238 |
"All my life, I have been searching for a home," the drow said quietly. "All my life, I have been wanting more than that which was offered to me, more than Menzoberranzan, more than friends who stood beside me out of personal gain. I always thought home would be a place, and indeed it is, but not in any physical sense. It is a place in here," Drizzt said, putting a hand to his heart and turning back to look upon his companions. "It is a feeling given by true friends. I know this now, and know that I am home." |
514 |
6 |
1.003 |
177.97 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
139.37 |
139.37 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 237. |
#4190349 |
The fourth category is the strong nuclear force, which holds the quarks together in the proton and neutron, and holds the protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom. It is believed that this force is carried by another spin-1 particle, called the gluon, which interacts only with itself and with the quarks. |
320 |
15 |
1.003 |
154.73 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
115.99 |
115.99 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 238. |
#4190221 |
The chamber was filled with a soft light; its walls were green and silver and its roof of gold. Many Elves were seated there. On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. |
248 |
14 |
1.003 |
188.27 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
138.57 |
138.57 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 239. |
#4190110 |
A tie connects two notes; simply continue the first note through the second without rearticulation. A dot extends the preceding note by half its value. |
151 |
9 |
1.003 |
196.55 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
135.57 |
135.57 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 240. |
#4190332 |
When once the recovery has been started, the manner in which it feeds on itself and cumulates is obvious. But during the downward phase, when both fixed capital and stocks of materials are for the time being redundant and working-capital is being reduced, the schedule of the marginal efficiency of capital may fall so low that it can scarcely be corrected. |
357 |
11 |
1.002 |
150.21 — zapakh (zapakh) |
126.29 |
126.29 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 241. |
#4190224 |
Like gold fall the leaves in the wind, long years numberless as the wings of trees. The years have passed like swift draughts of the sweet mead in lofty halls. Beyond the West, beneath the blue vaults of Varda wherein the stars tremble in the song of her voice, holy and queenly. Who now shall refill the cup for me? |
316 |
10 |
1.002 |
152.75 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
107.21 |
107.21 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 242. |
#4190134 |
On the birth of a second son, my junior by seven years, my parents gave up entirely their wandering life and fixed themselves in their native country. We possessed a house in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city. We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion. It was my temper to avoid a crowd and to attach myself fervently to a few. |
480 |
2 |
1.002 |
112.45 — Jonathan (bazookajojo) |
87.45 |
87.45 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 243. |
#4190007 |
When a musical instrument, human voice, loudspeaker (or anything else, really) produces a sound, it does so by creating sound waves in the air. These sound waves cause our eardrums to vibrate and set in motion a complex process that converts this vibration into signals our brain can understand. Our sense of pitch is one of the fundamental ways our brain makes sense of these signals. |
385 |
8 |
1.002 |
187.70 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
154.99 |
154.99 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 244. |
#4190286 |
Goldfish can live a fish bowl or aquarium, but the larger the container, the better. If you decide on an aquarium or larger bowl, the water will need to be changed less often, and the Goldfish will have more room to swim around. Air pumps are a great addition. They increase the oxygen which helps your goldfish breathe easier. You can hook the air pump to a bubbling ornament or air stone. |
390 |
9 |
1.001 |
164.14 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
98.75 |
98.75 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 245. |
#4190440 |
But not yams, I had no problem concerning them and I would eat them whenever and wherever I took the notion. Continue on the yam level and life would be sweet, though somewhat yellowish. Yet the freedom to eat yams on the street was far less than I had expected upon coming to the city. An unpleasant taste bloomed in my mouth now as I bit the end of the yam and threw it into the street; it had been frost-bitten. |
414 |
11 |
1.001 |
170.18 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
133.63 |
133.63 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 246. |
#4190266 |
Esports is a form of competition using video games. Most commonly, esports takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players and teams. Although organized online and offline competitions have long been a part of video game culture, these were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s, when participation by professional gamers and spectatorship in these events through live streaming saw a large surge in popularity. |
479 |
7 |
1.001 |
165.12 — Glevion (glevion) |
131.46 |
131.46 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 247. |
#4190320 |
I have criticized at length Professor Pigou's theory of unemployment not because he seems to me to be more open to criticism than other economists of the classical school; but because his is the only attempt with which I am acquainted to write down the classical theory of unemployment precisely. |
296 |
13 |
1.001 |
158.71 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
120.76 |
120.76 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 248. |
#4190367 |
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence? Or does it need a creator, and, if so, does he have any other effect on the universe? And who created him? |
578 |
9 |
1.000 |
189.85 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
133.28 |
133.28 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 249. |
#4190144 |
It was nearly noon when I arrived at the top of the ascent. For some time I sat upon the rock that overlooks the sea of ice. A mist covered both that and the surrounding mountains. Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier. The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep. |
382 |
6 |
0.999 |
191.37 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
157.13 |
157.13 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 250. |
#4190370 |
The story really began in the middle sixties, the period of the great purges in which the original leaders of the Revolution were wiped out once and for all. By 1970 none of them was left, except Big Brother himself. All the rest had by that time been exposed as traitors and counter-revolutionaries. Goldstein had fled and was hiding no one knew where, and of the others, a few had simply disappeared, while the majority had been executed after spectacular public trials at which they made confession of their crimes. Among the last survivors were three men named Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford. |
597 |
13 |
0.998 |
192.55 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
136.04 |
136.04 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 251. |
#4190095 |
This is vivid, moving language. The imagery is sharp and poignant, the rhythm strong and insistent. Think of how you can do similar things in your own speeches. |
160 |
12 |
0.997 |
206.19 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
152.97 |
152.97 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 252. |
#4190431 |
Looking up, I saw two of the white trustees moving swiftly across the platform to where Barbee floundered upon Dr. Bledsoe's legs. The old man slid forward upon his hands and knees as the two white men took his arms; and now as he stood I saw one of them reach for something on the floor and place it in his hands. It was when he raised his head that I saw it. |
360 |
8 |
0.997 |
167.40 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
123.73 |
123.73 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 253. |
#4190399 |
He accepted everything. The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford were guilty of the crimes they were charged with. He had never seen the photograph that disproved their guilt. It had never existed, he had invented it. He remembered remembering contrary things, but those were false memories, products of self-deception. |
447 |
6 |
0.997 |
140.58 — [10FF] Jashe (jakob2000) |
111.10 |
111.10 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 254. |
#4190436 |
At the corner I turned into a drugstore and took a seat at the counter. Several men were bent over plates of food. Glass globes of coffee simmered above blue flames. I could feel the odor of frying bacon reach deep into my stomach as I watched the counterman open the doors of the grill and turn the lean strips over and bang the doors shut again. Above, facing the counter, a blonde, sun-burned college girl smiled down, inviting all and sundry to drink a coke. The counterman came over. |
488 |
8 |
0.997 |
160.15 — (sidd_) |
135.18 |
135.18 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 255. |
#4190010 |
When a chord is in its lab version, the name of the root is simply the name of the lowest note. Include any accidental this note might have. Depending on the triad's quality, (when we find it), this root may have to be written Upper Case or lower case. |
252 |
1 |
0.996 |
116.59 — all3nvan (all3nvan) |
116.59 |
116.59 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 256. |
#4190025 |
We also examined the ways in which public speaking has evolved as a discipline to reflect changes in society. We provided examples of several contemporary developments in the field: new ways of viewing the public speaking process, the impact of changing technologies, an emphasis on understanding your audience's cultural background, the usefulness of critical thinking when you're planning your speech, and the importance of protecting freedom of expression and making ethical use of that freedom. |
498 |
12 |
0.996 |
199.39 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
136.20 |
136.20 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 257. |
#4190013 |
For thousands of years, public speaking was conducted exclusively face-to-face. Whether we are considering our ancient ancestors planning a hunt around a campfire or Susan B. Anthony calling for equal rights for women at the dawn of the twentieth century, speaker and audience were at the same location. |
303 |
13 |
0.996 |
184.27 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
128.27 |
128.27 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 258. |
#4190111 |
Structured improvisation exercises provide an opportunity to create your own melodies while practicing the skills addressed in each chapter. Sing the notes that are written, and complete the missing portions according to the guidelines provided (indicated by double arrowhead throughout the book). Notice that these exercises, unlike the more traditional rhythms and melodies in the earlier sections of this chapter, may be repeated multiple times because there are many different solutions. |
491 |
20 |
0.996 |
145.99 — Preston (prestonvchang) |
111.15 |
111.15 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 259. |
#4190022 |
Although you are guaranteed the right to express your ideas freely, as a public speaker you also have a responsibility to express your ideas ethically. |
151 |
19 |
0.995 |
206.90 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
124.10 |
124.10 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 260. |
#4190105 |
An important attribute of the accomplished musician is the ability to "hear mentally" - that is, to know how a given piece of music sounds without recourse to an instrument. Sight singing, together with ear training and other studies in musicianship, helps develop that attribute. |
280 |
10 |
0.995 |
159.17 — (sidd_) |
124.34 |
124.34 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 261. |
#4190090 |
One sign of a good novelist is the ability to create word pictures that let you "see" the haunted house, or "hear" the birds chirping on a warm spring morning, or "taste" the hot enchiladas at a Mexican restaurant. Speakers use imagery in much the same way to make their ideas come alive. Three ways to generate imagery are by using concrete words, simile, and metaphor. |
370 |
6 |
0.995 |
191.27 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
145.34 |
145.34 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 262. |
#4190216 |
They peered out. Before them was a cavernous hall. It was loftier and far longer than the one in which they had slept. They were near its eastern end; west-ward it ran away into darkness. Down the center stalked a double line of towering pillars. They were carved like boles of mighty trees whose boughs upheld the roof with a branching tracery of stone. Their stems were smooth and black, but a red glow was darkly mirrored in their sides. Right across the floor, close to the feet of two huge pillars a great fissure had opened. Out of it a fierce red light came, and now and again flames licked at the brink and curled about the bases of the columns. Wisps of smoke wavered in the hot air. |
692 |
12 |
0.994 |
190.61 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
137.30 |
137.30 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 263. |
#4190129 |
"I always tell myself not to judge people by their appearance. I've been wrong in the past and had some serious regrets. But the minute I saw this man, I got the feeling he couldn't be trusted. I still feel that way." |
217 |
7 |
0.994 |
150.76 — Dylan (dr_gammaray) |
124.93 |
124.93 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 264. |
#4190275 |
If you want to see controversy, just ask a New Yorker his opinion of a Chicago Dog or vice versa. Just like people are loyal to the hometown baseball team, they are equally loyal to their hometown hot dog. New York and Chicago Dogs are among the most popular, but other locations, such as West Virginia and Seattle, have their own distinct varieties that are beloved by local citizens. |
385 |
11 |
0.994 |
134.20 — zetria (primalknight) |
111.90 |
111.90 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 265. |
#4190257 |
Taran rode out slowly, head high, with all the assurance he could muster. But once out of sight of the stronghold, the companions clapped heels into their horses' flanks and galloped for dear life. |
197 |
9 |
0.993 |
174.27 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
126.86 |
126.86 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 266. |
#4190047 |
The Fruedian paradox 'The more you are innocent, the more you are guilty,' holds for them: the more they are innocent of the actual crime, the more they are guilty for enjoying its fruits without paying the price for them. |
222 |
15 |
0.993 |
192.57 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
131.17 |
131.17 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 267. |
#4190178 |
He didn't talk about it often, at least not when he was sober. But he found he was making himself comfortable and telling his tale. "Yes, ma'am. She was Apache, one of Little Bear's tribe. Fact is, she'd've been some kind of aunt to him. I met her when I'd come out here to do some soldiering. Fought Cheyenne, mostly. That would have been back in '62. |
352 |
10 |
0.993 |
184.52 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
141.34 |
141.34 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 268. |
#4190009 |
Another reason for the variety one sees in chord names arises from differing traditions. When doing Roman numeral analysis, one uses a tradition of describing inversion derived from the keyboard shorthand of early 18th Century Europe! Chord names in Jazz and Popular charts do not use this convention, but have their own, different conventions. |
344 |
13 |
0.992 |
165.59 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
134.90 |
134.90 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 269. |
#4190219 |
Beyond the river the land appeared flat and empty, formless and vague, until far away it rose again like a wall, dark and drear. The sun that lay on Lothlorien had no power to enlighten the shadow of that distant height. |
220 |
8 |
0.992 |
155.40 — Ian Brandon Anderson (hi_i_... |
126.16 |
126.16 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 270. |
#4190109 |
Not all exercises begin on the first beat of the measure. Determine the beat number of the first note before reading. If there is an anacrusis (i.e., a pick-up), silently count from the downbeat and enter on the appropriate beat. |
229 |
10 |
0.992 |
161.82 — mako (mako640) |
128.61 |
128.61 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 271. |
#4190265 |
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and pressing one causes a different single character to be produced on the paper, by causing a ribbon with dried ink to be struck against the paper by a type element similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. Commonly a separate type element (called a typebar) corresponds to each key, but the mechanism may also use a single type element (such as a typeball) with a different portion of it used for each possible character. At the end of the nineteenth century, the term typewriter was also applied to a person who used a typing machine. |
739 |
13 |
0.991 |
170.13 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
131.98 |
131.98 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 272. |
#4190263 |
The eSports phenomenon has created a need for better understanding of contract law. Teams, players, tournament leaders and leagues will need to negotiate, draft and sign contracts. Unfortunately, many players and teams in the early days of eSports did not understand or embrace the need for contracts, and as such were taken advantage of by leagues and tournament providers who did not pay them on time or at all. As teams have become more business savvy, the need for legal counsel to help with contracts has grown. |
516 |
19 |
0.991 |
181.15 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
127.22 |
127.22 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 273. |
#4190228 |
In one hand, he held a long sword, and in the other a knife; both the knife and the hand that held it glowed with a pale light. He sprang forward and bore down on Frodo. |
169 |
12 |
0.991 |
157.98 — (sidd_) |
123.27 |
123.27 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 274. |
#4190352 |
It is thought that similar but even larger black holes, with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun, occur at the centers of quasars. For example, observations with the Hubble telescope of the galaxy known as M87 reveal that it contains a disk of gas 130 light-years across rotating about a central object two thousand million times the mass of the sun. This can only be a black hole. |
405 |
9 |
0.991 |
160.31 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
134.88 |
134.88 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 275. |
#4190063 |
In principle, the answer may appear simple. Every historical situation contains its own unique utopian perspective, an immanent vision of what is wrong with it, an ideal representation of how, with some changes, the situation could be rendered much better. |
256 |
12 |
0.991 |
147.27 — Dylan (dr_gammaray) |
123.50 |
123.50 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 276. |
#4190303 |
I taught these doctrines myself and it is only within the last decade that I have been conscious of their insufficiency. In my own thought and development, therefore, this book represents a reaction, a transition away from the English classical (or orthodox) tradition. My emphasis upon this in the following pages and upon the points of my divergence from the received doctrine has been regarded in some quarters in England as unduly controversial. |
449 |
18 |
0.991 |
186.00 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
120.74 |
120.74 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 277. |
#4190404 |
He had seen her; he had even spoken to her. There was no danger in it. He knew as though instinctively that they now took almost no interest in his doings. He could have arranged to meet her a second time if either of them had wanted to. Actually it was by chance that they had met. It was in the Park, on a vile, biting day in March, when the earth was like iron and all the grass seemed dead and there was not a bud anywhere except a few crocuses which had pushed themselves up to be dismembered by the wind. |
510 |
4 |
0.990 |
190.42 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
142.49 |
142.49 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 278. |
#4190128 |
Tengo used the time until his next class to think through Ushikawa's remarks in his head. The man seemed to know that Tengo had participated in the rewrite of Air Chrysalis. There were hints of it everywhere in his speech. All I am trying to say is that selling off one's talents and time in dribs and drabs to make ends meet never produces good results, Ushikawa had said pointedly. |
383 |
11 |
0.990 |
182.50 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
128.76 |
128.76 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 279. |
#4190340 |
Or the two frames may have the same origins of space and time, but have different orientations of the three spatial axes. By carefully choosing your reference frame, taking advantage of these different possibilities, you can sometimes simplify your work. |
254 |
10 |
0.990 |
173.86 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
132.91 |
132.91 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 280. |
#4190171 |
For a moment he froze, consumed with despair. He didn't have it, the whatever-she-had-said. He didn't know what it was. Now was the moment when he would have to confess, to say, "No, I don't. I can't," and throw himself on their mercy, ask their forgiveness, to explain that he had been wrongly chosen, that he was not the right one at all. |
340 |
20 |
0.990 |
180.40 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
137.28 |
137.28 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 281. |
#4190256 |
It was full springtime, with promise of the richest summer the farm had ever seen. The ochard was white with fragrant blossoms; the newly planted fields lay light with green mist. Yet the sights and scents gave Taran little joy. To him, Caer Dallben was empty. |
260 |
13 |
0.990 |
161.88 — mako (mako640) |
112.22 |
112.22 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 282. |
#4190373 |
But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith. The street into which he had turned ran downhill. He had a feeling that he had been in this neighbourhood before, and that there was a main thoroughfare not far away. |
391 |
5 |
0.990 |
169.78 — mako (mako640) |
131.58 |
131.58 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 283. |
#4190068 |
In other words, we are not dealing simply with the conflict between the demands of life and the constraints of the legal system of rights, but with a right (to life) that overcomes all formal rights, i.e., with a conflict inherent to the sphere of rights, a conflict which is unavoidable and necessary insofar as it serves as an indication of the finitude, inconsistency and 'abstract' character of the system of legal rights as such. |
434 |
11 |
0.989 |
139.34 — police (styrofoam) |
104.21 |
104.21 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 284. |
#4190254 |
There are heroes and heroes. I don't deny he's acted bravely on occasion. He's fought beside Lord Gwydion and been proud of himself as a chick wearing eagle's feathers. But that's only one kind of bravery. Has the darling robin ever scratched for his own worms? That's bravery of another sort. And between the two, dear Orwen, he might find the letter shows the greater courage. |
378 |
12 |
0.989 |
197.08 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
135.96 |
135.96 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 285. |
#4190276 |
Noodles in various contents, formulations, and shapes have been the staple foods for many Asian countries since ancient time. They can be made from wheat, rice, buckwheat, and starches derived from potato, sweet potato, and pulses. Noodles based on wheat are prepared mainly from three basic ingredients; flour, water, and salt. There exist two distinct types of wheat flour noodles based on the presence and absence of alkaline salts, regular salted noodles, and alkaline noodles. The basic process of dough mixing, sheet forming, compounding, sheeting/reduction, and cutting are essentially constant for all machine-made noodles. Noodle strands coming out of cutting rolls can be further processed to produce different types of noodles. |
738 |
8 |
0.989 |
146.71 — Ian Brandon Anderson (hi_i_... |
122.72 |
122.72 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 286. |
#4190322 |
Let us return to the employment function. We have assumed in the foregoing that to every level or aggregate effective demand there corresponds a unique distribution of effective demand between the products of each individual industry. Now, as aggregate expenditure changes, the corresponding expenditure on the products of an individual industry will not, in general, change in the same proportion. |
398 |
14 |
0.989 |
177.74 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
123.83 |
123.83 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 287. |
#4190145 |
"It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate. Before I had quitted your apartment, on a sensation of cold, I had covered myself with some clothes, but these were insufficient to secure me from the dews of night. I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept." |
431 |
9 |
0.988 |
169.09 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
139.47 |
139.47 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 288. |
#4190252 |
But this, too, I saw... Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran. |
241 |
9 |
0.988 |
172.03 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
139.33 |
139.33 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 289. |
#4190316 |
If, in such circumstances, we start from a position of full employment, entrepreneurs will necessarily make losses if they continue to offer employment on a scale which will utilise the whole of the existing stock of capital. Hence the stock of capital and the level of employment will have to shrink until the community becomes so impoverished that the aggregate of saving has become zero, the positive saving of some individuals or groups being offset by the negative saving of others. |
487 |
10 |
0.987 |
182.55 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
126.16 |
126.16 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 290. |
#4190326 |
Thus we must first consider the effect of changes in the quantity of money on the quantity of effective demand; and the increase in effective demand will, generally speaking, spend itself partly in increasing the quantity of employment and partly in raising the level of prices. Thus instead of constant prices in conditions of unemployment, and of prices rising in proportion to the quantity of money in conditions of full employment, we have in fact a condition of prices rising gradually as employment increases. |
515 |
14 |
0.987 |
200.90 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
132.71 |
132.71 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 291. |
#4190020 |
Where do you stand on the DREAM Act debate? It depends on your worldview. More important, where does your audience stand on the topic that you're discussing in your speech? |
172 |
11 |
0.987 |
185.66 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
140.13 |
140.13 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 292. |
#4190107 |
In simple meters (also known as simple time), the beat is divisible into two equal parts; therefore, any note value so divisible can represent the beat. Most commonly used are the quarter note, the eighth note, and the half note, though other values are sometimes seen. |
269 |
10 |
0.986 |
179.63 — mako (mako640) |
123.77 |
123.77 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 293. |
#4190445 |
Words, phrases skipped through my mind; I saw the blue haze again. What had I meant by saying that I had become "more human"? Was it a phrase that I had picked up from some preceding speaker, or a slip of the tongue? For a moment I thought of my grandfather and quickly dismissed him. What had an old slave to do with humanity? Perhaps it was something that Woodridge had said in the literature class back at college. |
417 |
5 |
0.985 |
136.23 — Ian Brandon Anderson (hi_i_... |
114.86 |
114.86 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 294. |
#4190313 |
The concepts of user cost and of supplementary cost also enable us to establish a clearer relationship between long-period supply price and short-period supply price. Long-period cost must obviously include an amount to cover the basic supplementary cost as well as the expected prime cost appropriately averaged over the life of the equipment. |
344 |
12 |
0.985 |
184.76 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
138.63 |
138.63 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 295. |
#4190157 |
Instead, as a result of Father's plea, Gabriel had been labeled Uncertain and given the additional year. He would continue to be nurtured at the Center and would spend his nights with Jonas's family unit. Each family member, including Lily, had been required to sign a pledge that they would not become attached to this little temporary guest, and that they would relinquish him without protest or appeal when he was assigned to his own family unit at next year's Ceremony. |
473 |
6 |
0.984 |
153.32 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
116.79 |
116.79 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 296. |
#4190059 |
Our daily lives are mostly a mixture of drab routine and bad surprises- however, from time to time, something unexpected happens which cracks like lightning and makes life worth living. |
185 |
8 |
0.984 |
195.77 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
142.61 |
142.61 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 297. |
#4190054 |
A more radical strategy for escaping from unbearable reality is that of 'de-realization'. In his analysis of the big trench battles of the First World War, such as Ypres and the Somme, where hundreds of thousands died to gain a few yards of land, Paul Fussell pointed out how the hellish nature of what went on made the participants experience their situation as theatrical: it was impossible for them to believe that they were taking part in such a murderous endeavor in person, as 'themselves'. |
496 |
6 |
0.984 |
137.76 — ANDREA (andreaak00) |
115.62 |
115.62 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 298. |
#4190315 |
Given the optimum amount of roundaboutness, we shall, of course, select the most efficient roundabout processes which we can find up to the required aggregate. But the optimum amount itself should be such as to provide at the appropriate dates for that part of consumers' demand which it is desired to defer. |
308 |
7 |
0.984 |
189.67 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
137.56 |
137.56 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 299. |
#4190290 |
The foregoing were experimental steps in the progress or evolution of ideas in the development of the typewriter. These experiments were being conducted on both sides of the Atlantic. In fact, it might appear that there was a contest for priority in the production of the first practical writing machine, in which America won, as subsequent developments will show . Although all these steps were fail- ures, so far as individual practical results were concerned, they were valuable to succeeding inventors who culled and preserved the practical and eliminated the impractical. |
576 |
5 |
0.983 |
153.38 — (sidd_) |
140.79 |
140.79 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 300. |
#4190312 |
We must now recur, however, to the point that the line between supplementary costs and windfall losses, i.e. between those unavoidable losses which we think it proper to debit to income account and those which it is reasonable to reckon as a windfall loss (or gain) on capital account, is partly a conventional or psychological one, depending on what are the commonly accepted criteria for estimating the former. |
412 |
7 |
0.983 |
118.07 — spondunoob (spondulix) |
91.06 |
91.06 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 301. |
#4190034 |
If you have done research for topic ideas, a current news story may also suggest a variety of topics through word association. For example, a story about wildfires could result in the following topic sequence: firefighters, fire prevention, smoke detectors, lie detectors. |
272 |
11 |
0.983 |
147.51 — zetria (primalknight) |
109.49 |
109.49 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 302. |
#4190204 |
The Great Ring shall go now to be an heirloom of the North Kingdom; but records of it shall be left in Gondor, where also dwell the heirs of Elendil, lest a time come when the memory of these great matters shall grow dim. |
221 |
7 |
0.983 |
158.42 — (sidd_) |
115.37 |
115.37 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 303. |
#4190324 |
There is, perhaps, something a little perplexing in the apparent asymmetry between inflation and deflation. For whilst a deflation of effective demand below the level required for full employment will diminish employment as well as prices, an inflation of it above this level will merely affect prices. |
302 |
17 |
0.982 |
151.23 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
124.39 |
124.39 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 304. |
#4190011 |
As you know, a M3 corresponds to 4 half steps on the piano keyboard, which means a m3 corresponds to 3. We can thus "translate" the triad and seventh chord definition charts into half step charts as follows. For each quality of chord, the definition is given first. Then, the distance between adjacent notes is given in half steps. |
331 |
8 |
0.982 |
177.06 — mako (mako640) |
138.27 |
138.27 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 305. |
#4190319 |
If Professor Pigou were to deny the possibility of involuntary unemployment in the sense in which I have defined it above, as, perhaps, he would, it is still difficult to see how his analysis could be applied. |
209 |
5 |
0.982 |
178.49 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
125.70 |
125.70 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 306. |
#4190293 |
Mechanics is, of course, the study of how things move - how an electron moves down your TV tube, how a baseball flies through the air, how a comet moves round the sun. Classical mechanics is the form of mechanics developed by Galileo and Newton in the seventeenth century and reformulated by Lagrange and Hamilton in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For almost three hundred years, it seemed that classical mechanics was the form of mechanics, that it could explain the motion of all conceivable systems. |
512 |
17 |
0.981 |
173.05 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
112.88 |
112.88 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 307. |
#4190066 |
But is this myth of non-representative direct self-organization not the last trap, the deepest illusion that is most difficult to renounce? Yes, there are, in every revolutionary process, ecstatic moments of group solidarity, when thousands, hundreds of thousands, together occupy a public place. |
296 |
4 |
0.981 |
183.52 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
150.13 |
150.13 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 308. |
#4190271 |
Most of the time, pasta is cooked in boiling water. When it is done, the pasta is taken out of the water, drained, and then dressed. Dressing pasta meals means mixing it with wonderful sauces or other foods such as tomatoes, olive oil, fish, cheese, meat, or vegetables. Pasta is often served in soups. Sometimes it is cooked right in the soup broth, and other times it is cooked in plain water, and added to the soup when it is almost finished. Pasta soups are very popular in the Americas. People in Mexico, Central and South America enjoy pasta in many different kinds of soups and stews. North Americans eat lots of chicken, beef or vegetable soups with pasta. |
664 |
9 |
0.981 |
147.96 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
119.27 |
119.27 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 309. |
#4190289 |
The typewriter has revolutionized commercial methods. It lessens labor, at the same time increases it. It has supplanted the pen in commercial correspondence, because it has greater speed, accuracy, and legibility. It magnifies and intensifies mistakes in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, and as a result, leads to their correction. It stimulates accuracy by encouraging greater attention to detail, both on the part of the dictator and the typist. The typewriter has done more to promote the phenomenal business expansion during recent years than any other office appliance. Indeed, it has made most of the modern office appli- ances necessary, as well as possible. |
676 |
14 |
0.980 |
187.55 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
132.72 |
132.72 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 310. |
#4190424 |
I looked upon the tinted miniature framed in engraved platinum. I almost dropped it. A young woman of delicate, dreamy features looked up at me. She was very beautiful, I thought at the time, so beautiful that I did not know whether I should express admiration to the extent I felt it or merely act polite. And yet I seemed to remember her, or someone like her, in the past. |
374 |
9 |
0.979 |
180.98 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
128.84 |
128.84 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 311. |
#4190421 |
On one wall a woman smiled and drank orange juice simultaneously. How does she do both at once, thought Montag, insanely. In the other walls an X-ray of the same woman revealed the contracting journey of the refreshing beverage on its way to her delightful stomach! Abruptly the room took off on a rocket flight into the clouds, it plunged into a lime-green sea where blue fish ate red and yellow fish. |
402 |
15 |
0.979 |
176.94 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
124.13 |
124.13 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 312. |
#4190138 |
It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was ineffectual. Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction. |
163 |
7 |
0.978 |
127.39 — Jonathan (bazookajojo) |
114.05 |
114.05 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 313. |
#4190288 |
The development of the typewriter industry is so closely interwoven with the history of modern progress that it is impossible to separate them. In fact, the typewriter is responsible for much of the remarkable progress of the world during the last four decades. For this reason, a synopsis of its development should be interesting to every intelligent, progressive thinker. The fundamental purpose of the typewriter is to enable the typist, or operator, to do more and better work with less effort in a given time than can be done with the pen, and the value of the typewriter is measured by the extent to which it increases speed and legibility in making records or preparing messages for delivery. |
699 |
5 |
0.978 |
167.26 — mako (mako640) |
126.91 |
126.91 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 314. |
#4190335 |
In truth the opposite holds good. It is the policy of an autonomous rate of interest, unimpeded by international preoccupations, and of a national investment program directed to an optimum level of domestic employment which is twice blessed in the sense that it helps ourselves and our neighbors at the same time. |
313 |
8 |
0.978 |
169.03 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
133.99 |
133.99 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 315. |
#4190163 |
Jonas moved his hands together, clapping, but it was an automatic, meaningless gesture that he wasn't even aware of. His mind had shut out all of the earlier emotions: the anticipation, excitement, pride, and even the happy kinship with his friends. Now he felt only humiliation and terror. |
290 |
9 |
0.977 |
195.12 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
132.74 |
132.74 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 316. |
#4190188 |
For a breathless time they sat there, silent and alert, with their backs turned to the wood-fire, each gazing into the shadows that encircled them. Nothing happened. There was no sound or movement in the night. Frodo stirred, feeling that he must break the silence: he longed to shout out loud. |
294 |
1 |
0.977 |
131.11 — [10FF] Jashe (jakob2000) |
131.11 |
131.11 |
February 6, 2019 |
| 317. |
#4190283 |
There was to be no early end to the war. Despite its recent defeats, the German Army remained a dangerous foe, fighting for its life in prepared defenses. Furthermore, as the Allies approached the frontiers of the Reich, they encountered a series of formidable terrain obstacles and the worst weather in over thirty years. Yet Eisenhower, believing that unremitting pressure against the enemy would shorten the war, called for the offensive to continue. Battles of attrition followed throughout October and November, all along the front. |
537 |
9 |
0.976 |
174.27 — mako (mako640) |
129.58 |
129.58 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 318. |
#4190247 |
To continually reach higher is to live; to always strive to be a better person or to make the world around you a better place or to enrich your life or the lives of those you love is the secret to that most elusive of goals: a sense of accomplishment. |
251 |
9 |
0.976 |
202.73 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
130.52 |
130.52 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 319. |
#4190213 |
The others swung around and saw the waters of the lake seething, as if a host of snakes were swimming up from the southern end. Out from the water a long sinuous tentacle had crawled; it was pale green and luminous and wet. |
223 |
11 |
0.976 |
201.79 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
120.96 |
120.96 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 320. |
#4190214 |
We drove out orcs from the great gate and guard - I think; the next word is blurred and burned: probably room - we slew many in the bright - I think - sun in the dale. Floi was killed by an arrow. He slew the great. Then there is a blur followed by Floi under grass near Mirror mere. The next line or two I cannot read. |
319 |
11 |
0.975 |
156.96 — learn dvorak (usa_usa_usa_usa) |
124.11 |
124.11 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 321. |
#4190351 |
How could we hope to detect a black hole, as by its very definition it does not emit any light? It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar. Fortunately, there is a way. As John Michell pointed out in his pioneering paper in 1783, a black hole still exerts a gravitational force on nearby objects. |
319 |
12 |
0.975 |
166.06 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
135.70 |
135.70 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 322. |
#4190070 |
This lack of fulfillment confers on the film's end a touch of melancholy: all the laughter and the boisterousness of the film's last minute, all the merry display of the partnership between Gaston and Lily, only fills in the void of this melancholy. |
249 |
12 |
0.975 |
166.93 — mako (mako640) |
111.82 |
111.82 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 323. |
#4190103 |
Dr. Ottman was beloved by those who knew him and, remarkably, even by people acquainted solely with his books. If it is, indeed, possible to be immortalized through one's work, then Robert Ottman will live forever in the hearts and minds of musicians around the world. |
268 |
6 |
0.974 |
162.26 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
131.44 |
131.44 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 324. |
#4190162 |
Eighteen, Fiona, on his left, was called. Jonas knew she must be nervous, but Fiona was a calm female. She had been sitting quietly, serenely, throughout the Ceremony. |
167 |
8 |
0.973 |
164.38 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
127.31 |
127.31 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 325. |
#4190391 |
Abruptly his mind went back to Katharine. Katharine would unquestionably have denounced him to the Thought Police if she had not happened to be too stupid to detect the unorthodoxy of his opinions. But what really recalled her to him at this moment was the stifling heat of the afternoon, which had brought the sweat out on his forehead. He began telling Julia of something that had happened, or rather had failed to happen, on another sweltering summer afternoon, eleven years ago. |
482 |
8 |
0.973 |
186.52 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
121.95 |
121.95 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 326. |
#4190135 |
No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence. We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the development of filial love. |
442 |
15 |
0.973 |
147.04 — (sidd_) |
114.29 |
114.29 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 327. |
#4190099 |
I have no idea what you're talking about. I've got as much rhythm as that chair. What happened to me was a tragedy, but I don't have to be a millionaire. Look I got a sweet deal going on here, I've got all the books that I can read. All these sweet old ladies and this carpet from the 80's - what more could a librarian need? Besides I ain't got rhythm, no I ain't got rhythm, said I ain't got rhythm, I ain't got rhythm. |
421 |
8 |
0.972 |
164.90 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
138.90 |
138.90 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 328. |
#4190363 |
Similarly, a single piece of string can divide into two strings. In string theories, what were previously thought of as particles are now pictured as waves traveling down the string, like waves on a vibrating kite string. The emission or absorption of one particle by another corresponds to the dividing or joining together of strings. |
335 |
1 |
0.972 |
83.55 — Andrew (gazino) |
83.55 |
83.55 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 329. |
#4190183 |
"My grandfather loved beautiful things." He took her elbow. "I inherited that love from him. Most of the furniture was shipped in from Europe. We had to make some concessions to the land." He patted a thick adobe wall. "But there's no reason to sacrifice all our comforts. This painting-" He guided her to a portrait of a pale, elegant woman in blue silk. "My mother. She was my grandfather's pride and joy. His wife died before this house was completed. Everything he did from that day was for his daughter." |
509 |
4 |
0.971 |
112.52 — Jonathan (bazookajojo) |
93.56 |
93.56 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 330. |
#4190142 |
Justine was called on for her defence. As the trial had proceeded, her countenance had altered. Surprise, horror, and misery were strongly expressed. Sometimes she struggled with her tears, but when she was desired to plead, she collected her powers and spoke in an audible although variable voice. |
298 |
11 |
0.971 |
178.42 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
131.98 |
131.98 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 331. |
#4190279 |
On 7 December 1941, while German armies were freezing before Moscow, Japan suddenly pushed the United States into the struggle by attacking the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Four days later Hitler declared war on the United States. President Roosevelt called on Congress for immediate and massive expansion of the armed forces. Twenty years of neglect and indifference, however, could not be overcome in a few days. |
430 |
11 |
0.971 |
174.83 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
122.78 |
122.78 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 332. |
#4190430 |
In spite of the array of important men beside him, and despite the posture of humility and meekness which made him seem smaller than the others (although he was physically larger), Dr. Bledsoe made his presence felt by us with a far greater impact. I remembered the legend of how he had come to the college, a barefoot boy who in his fervor for education had trudged with his bundle of ragged clothing across two states. And how he was given a job feeding slop to the hogs but had made himself the best slop dispenser in the history of the school; and how the Founder had been impressed and made him his office boy. |
615 |
9 |
0.971 |
148.49 — learn dvorak (usa_usa_usa_usa) |
109.34 |
109.34 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 333. |
#4190164 |
The yeoman took a swipe at the bird with his spear and the great black bird swooped off the wall and went cawing out over the Thames. A ferryman looked up from his boat, saw us on the tower, and waved. I jumped onto the wall and bowed - at your fucking service, thank you. The yeoman grumbled and spat after the raven. |
318 |
8 |
0.971 |
155.05 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
114.00 |
114.00 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 334. |
#4190282 |
With time short and no room to maneuver, the struggle to break out became a battle of attrition. Allied troops advanced with agonizing slowness from hedgerow to hedgerow, in a seemingly endless series of small battles. Advances were measured in hundreds of yards. Requirements for fire support far exceeded preinvasion planning, resulting in a severe shortage of artillery shells. The British made several powerful attempts to break through to the open country beyond the town of Caen, but were stopped by the Germans, who concentrated most of their armor in this threatened area. |
580 |
14 |
0.970 |
181.02 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
127.33 |
127.33 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 335. |
#4190321 |
We shall develop in this chapter certain properties of the employment function. But apart from any interest which these may have, there are two reasons why the substitution of the employment function for the ordinary supply curve is consonant with the methods and objects of this book. |
285 |
10 |
0.969 |
170.41 — mako (mako640) |
123.80 |
123.80 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 336. |
#4190028 |
People listening to a speech at 8:30 on a Monday morning will likely have a limited attention span. |
99 |
12 |
0.969 |
174.99 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
133.31 |
133.31 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 337. |
#4190243 |
Yet I was no less lost when a handless deep gnome came into my life, a svirfneblin that I had rescued from certain death, many years before, at my brother Dinin's merciless blade. My deed was repaid in full, for when the svirnerblin and I again met, this time in the clutches of his people, I would have been willed - truly would have preferred death - were it not for Belwar Dissengulp. |
387 |
12 |
0.969 |
193.78 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
138.13 |
138.13 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 338. |
#4190150 |
Looking through the front window, he had seen no people: none of the busy afternoon crew of Street Cleaners, Landscape Workers, and Food Delivery people who usually populated the community at that time of day. He saw only the abandoned bikes here and there on their sides; an upturned wheel on one was still revolving slowly. |
325 |
10 |
0.968 |
175.56 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
122.39 |
122.39 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 339. |
#4190069 |
What this implies is the true aim of lending money to the debtor is not to get the debt reimbursed with a profit, but the indefinite continuation of the debt which keeps the which keeps the debtor in permanent dependency and subordination. |
239 |
4 |
0.968 |
194.86 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
159.64 |
159.64 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 340. |
#4190147 |
My thoughts now became more active, and I longed to discover the motives and feelings of these lovely creatures; I was inquisitive to know why Felix appeared so miserable and Agatha so sad. I thought (foolish wretch!) that it might be in my power to restore happiness to these deserving people. |
294 |
13 |
0.967 |
170.26 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
136.15 |
136.15 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 341. |
#4190259 |
"Evil conquered?" said Gwydion. "You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched. |
491 |
8 |
0.966 |
160.38 — (sidd_) |
134.26 |
134.26 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 342. |
#4190261 |
Imagine a scene where a group of gamers get together to play their favorite game. They join a tournament, pitted against other equally skilled players, and battle for hours for victory. Now, picture those players sitting in a stadium where their actions are broadcast for thousands to see. At the same time, additional people are logging in online to watch from a distance. Suddenly, those gamers have gone from geek to valuable commodity. This is the phenomenon known as Electronic Sports, or eSports. |
502 |
2 |
0.966 |
113.99 — revile you (vfctyrant) |
107.96 |
107.96 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 343. |
#4190278 |
Armored spearheads thrust deep into Soviet territory, driving toward Leningrad, Moscow, and the Ukraine and cutting off entire Soviet armies. Despite tremendous losses, Russian military forces withdrew farther into the country and continued to resist. Nazi expectations of a quick victory evaporated, and the onset of winter caught the Germans unprepared. Thirty miles short of Moscow their advance ground to a halt, and the Soviets launched massive counterattacks. |
465 |
10 |
0.965 |
144.16 — (delirious) |
106.44 |
106.44 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 344. |
#4190330 |
Since this last expression gives us the proportionate change in prices in response to a change in the quantity of money, it can be regarded as a generalized statement of the quantity theory of money. I do not myself attach much value to manipulations of this kind. |
264 |
12 |
0.965 |
205.30 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
112.81 |
112.81 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 345. |
#4190087 |
Good speakers are aware of the meaning of words - both their obvious and their subtle meanings. They also know how to use language accurately, clearly, vividly, appropriately, and inclusively. This chapter will explore each of these areas. |
239 |
12 |
0.964 |
149.34 — [10FF] Jashe (jakob2000) |
118.12 |
118.12 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 346. |
#4190329 |
Perhaps the most important element in marginal cost which is likely to change in a different proportion from the wage-unit, and also to fluctuate within much wider limits, is marginal user cost. For marginal user cost may increase sharply when employment begins to improve, if (as will probably be the case) the increasing effective demand brings a rapid change in the prevailing expectation as to the date when the replacement of equipment will be necessary. |
459 |
5 |
0.961 |
186.92 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
132.93 |
132.93 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 347. |
#4190052 |
These are two distinct propositions combined in this passage: first, Nietzsche's version of the old wisdom about the despair that lurks behind the mask of a clown - Hamlet must suffer tremendously if he feels compelled to play a crazy clown; and second, what makes him suffer, what drives him mad, is not his doubt but his certainty about who murdered his father; and his doubt, his search for the ultimate proof of Claudius's guilt, is an escape from his certainty. |
466 |
13 |
0.960 |
162.05 — mako (mako640) |
121.02 |
121.02 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 348. |
#4190102 |
Developing the "mind's ear" - the ability to imagine how music sounds without first playing it on an instrument- is essential to any musician, and sight singing (in conjunction with ear training and other studies in musicianship) is invaluable in reaching this fundamental goal. The principal objective of sight singing is acquiring the ability to sing a given melody accurately at first sight. |
394 |
16 |
0.960 |
181.69 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
116.35 |
116.35 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 349. |
#4190296 |
John Jewett developed over 160 tutorials that strengthen students' problem solving skills by guiding them through the steps in the problem-solving process. Important first steps include making predictions and focusing strategy on physics concepts before starting to solve the problem quantitatively. A critical component of these tutorials is the selection of an appropriate Analysis Model to describe what is going on in the problem. This step allows students to make the important link between the situation in the problem and the mathematical representation of the situation. |
578 |
14 |
0.960 |
154.93 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
120.31 |
120.31 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 350. |
#4190292 |
The Clicking Championship is a typing tournament that was developed by Nico Borst in January of 2019. It took two weeks to execute and represents the first major sponsored typing tournament in many years. It was made possible by the collective support and trust of the typing communities on 10FF, Typeracer, and Nitrotype, which Phan frequently identifies as the triangle, or the holy trinity of the typing esport movement. The championship was organized through the Typing Esport Network and is the first typing tournament marketed aggressively as an esport. According to Phan, the movement would not have been possible without the energy of the Nitrotype youths, who who gave him the stark realization that they represented the future of typing. With the additional help of past and present typists throughout the triangle community, a new movement to establish typing as an esport began. |
890 |
6 |
0.960 |
184.83 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
141.67 |
141.67 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 351. |
#4190151 |
NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED, the voice had said, followed by silence. There was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the Speaker found it amusing; and Jonas had smiled a little, though he knew what a grim statement it had been. For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. |
387 |
15 |
0.960 |
160.64 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
115.08 |
115.08 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 352. |
#4190229 |
They got up and withdrew quietly into the shadows, and made for the doors. Sam they left behind, fast asleep still with a smile on his face. In spite of his delight in Bilbo's company, Frodo felt a tug of regret as they passed out of the Hall of Fire. Even as they stepped over the threshold a single clear voice rose in song. |
326 |
6 |
0.960 |
132.38 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
122.71 |
122.71 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 353. |
#4190336 |
In this early work Mr Hobson with his collaborator expressed himself with more direct reference to the classical economics (in which he had been brought up) than in his later writings; and for this reason, as well as because it is the first expression of his theory, I will quote from it to show how significant and well-founded were the authors' criticisms and intuitions. |
373 |
12 |
0.959 |
185.46 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
131.37 |
131.37 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 354. |
#4190255 |
Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer, and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered! More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil. |
327 |
5 |
0.959 |
118.71 — Preston (prestonvchang) |
109.48 |
109.48 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 355. |
#4190004 |
You will find patterns in music that do not conform to any of the three scale forms. 7 and 6 might be raised in a descending step-wise passage. 6 may be raised while 7 is not. Minor truly is flexible. In the music you study in minor keys, it is rewarding to look at each raised or unraised 6 and 7 degree and ponder why it is one way and not the other. It will lead you to a better understanding of the harmonic and melodic forces at work, and will enrich your intuitive feel for the music as well. |
498 |
7 |
0.958 |
168.66 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
135.20 |
135.20 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 356. |
#4190043 |
The fight to control cyberspace is at bottom a class issue, which demonstrates that class struggle is alive and well. When President Obama was accused of irresponsibly introducing 'class warfare' into politics, Warren Buffet gloated: 'There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.' |
342 |
10 |
0.958 |
170.71 — mako (mako640) |
123.38 |
123.38 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 357. |
#4190077 |
These lines from the finale blurt out the obscene secret of Clemenza: the pardon does not really abolish the debt. Rather, it makes the debt infinite - we are forever indebted to the person who pardoned us. |
206 |
8 |
0.958 |
168.23 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
138.86 |
138.86 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 358. |
#4190232 |
Immediately, though everything else remained as before, dim and dark, the shapes became terribly clear. He was able to see beneath their black wrappings. There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. |
421 |
3 |
0.958 |
125.21 — police (styrofoam) |
115.77 |
115.77 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 359. |
#4190048 |
The superego addresses me as a unique individual, confronting me with my guilt and responsibility: 'Don't escape into generalities, don't resort to objective circumstances, look deep into your heart and ask yourself where you failed with regard to your duties!' |
261 |
14 |
0.958 |
191.26 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
109.70 |
109.70 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 360. |
#4190385 |
With a sort of military precision that astonished him, she outlined the route that he was to follow. A half-hour railway journey; turn left outside the station; two kilometers along the road; a gate with the top bar missing; a path across a field; a grass-grown lane; a track between bushes; a dead tree with moss on it. |
320 |
5 |
0.958 |
170.70 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
150.40 |
150.40 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 361. |
#4190140 |
I quitted my seat, and walked on, although the darkness and storm increased every minute, and the thunder burst with a terrific crash over my head. It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash. |
437 |
6 |
0.957 |
161.01 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
135.58 |
135.58 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 362. |
#4190173 |
They looked out over the Mediterranean. Far below, the last excursion boat from the Isles des Lerins floated across the bay like a Fourth-of-July balloon foot-loose in the heavens. Between the black isles it floated, softly parting the dark tide. |
246 |
8 |
0.957 |
170.80 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
136.77 |
136.77 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 363. |
#4190190 |
The Three, fairest of all, the Elf-lords hid from him, and his hand never touched them or sullied them. Seven the Dwarf-kings possessed, but three he has recovered, and the others the dragons have consumed. Nine he gave to Mortal Men, proud and great, and so ensnared them. Long ago they fell under the dominion of the One, and they became Ringwraiths, shadows under his great Shadow, his most terrible servants. Long ago. It is many a year since the Nine walked abroad. Yet who knows? As the Shadow grows once more, they too may walk again. But come! We will not speak of such things even in the morning of the Shire. |
618 |
8 |
0.956 |
149.94 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
119.09 |
119.09 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 364. |
#4190061 |
Does this mean that we should simply abandon the topic (and experience) of 'living in the end time', of approaching the apocalyptic point of no return when 'things cannot go on like this any longer'? |
199 |
18 |
0.956 |
199.42 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
132.13 |
132.13 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 365. |
#4190195 |
A deadly sword, a healing hand, a back that bent beneath its load. A trumpet voice, a burning brand, a weary pilgrim on the road. A lord of wisdom throned he sat, swift in anger, quick to laugh. An old man in a battered hat, who leaned upon a thorny throne. He stood upon the bridge alone and fire and shadow both defied. His staff was broken on the stone, in Khazad-dum his wisdom died. |
387 |
4 |
0.955 |
141.97 — ANDREA (andreaak00) |
127.33 |
127.33 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 366. |
#4190205 |
All sat silent for a while, until at length Boromir spoke. "He is a small thing, you say, this Gollum? Small, but great in mischief. What became of him? To what doom did you put him?" |
183 |
13 |
0.955 |
183.95 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
139.29 |
139.29 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 367. |
#4190091 |
You can also use metaphor to create imagery in your speeches. Metaphor is an implicit comparison between things that are essentially different yet have something in common. Unlike simile, metaphor does not contain the words "like" or "as." |
239 |
12 |
0.955 |
176.76 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
131.74 |
131.74 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 368. |
#4190017 |
An audience member's culture not only influences how he or she perceives a speaker's behavior but also affects the person's worldview- the "lens" through which he or she sees and interprets reality. |
198 |
3 |
0.951 |
155.39 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
123.76 |
123.76 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 369. |
#4190343 |
Aristotle, and most of the other Greek philosophers, on the other hand, did not like the idea of a creation because it smacked too much of divine intervention. They believed, therefore, that the human race and the world around it had existed, and would exist, forever. The ancients had already considered the argument about progress described above and answered it by saying that there had been periodic floods or other disasters that repeatedly set the human race right back to the beginning of civilization. |
509 |
3 |
0.951 |
140.02 — quitting = cringe (angeio) |
133.41 |
133.41 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 370. |
#4190024 |
Next, we turned to the rich tradition of public speaking, citing examples from across time (including antiquity) and from around the world (such as ancient Greece and Rome, China, Africa, India, and the United States). |
218 |
2 |
0.949 |
113.10 — Calculus (uchihalol) |
110.08 |
110.08 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 371. |
#4190137 |
Before this I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity. On this occasion a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me. All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies. It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known. |
621 |
8 |
0.948 |
178.56 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
122.43 |
122.43 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 372. |
#4190050 |
The mechanism of crowd-formation described in detail by Freud should be conceived precisely as a reaction to this individualizing superego-pressure: the activity of the crowd is a kind of 'return of the oppressed', of the mythic violence, and the dissolving of the participants' individuality also dissolves the anxiety and guilt that affected them as isolated individuals. |
373 |
6 |
0.948 |
149.92 — mako (mako640) |
109.22 |
109.22 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 373. |
#4190042 |
What, then, is this higher force whose authority can suspend the decisions of the democratically elected representatives of the people? The answer was provided back in 1998 by Hans Tietmeyer, then governor of the Deutsches Bundesbank, who praised national governments for preferring 'the permanent plebiscite of global markets' to the 'plebiscite of the ballot box'. |
366 |
6 |
0.946 |
153.41 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
126.30 |
126.30 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 374. |
#4190375 |
At this moment his train of thought stopped abruptly. He halted and looked up. He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops, interspersed among dwelling-houses. Immediately above his head there hung three discoloured metal balls which looked as if they had once been gilded. He seemed to know the place. Of course! He was standing outside the junk shop where he had bought the diary. |
394 |
8 |
0.945 |
146.41 — Glevion (glevion) |
117.46 |
117.46 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 375. |
#4190176 |
The crack of the rifle echoed over the rock and sent a lone hawk wheeling. Sarah gritted her teeth, cocked the lever and squeezed again. The empty whiskey bottle exploded. She was improving, she decided as she mopped her brow and reloaded. And she was determined to get better still. |
283 |
12 |
0.945 |
143.50 — mako (mako640) |
115.22 |
115.22 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 376. |
#4190035 |
Sounds confusing? It isn't, really. To see how subordination and coordination work, compare the subpoints (indicated by capital letters) supporting each main point (signaled by roman numerals) in the following outline for an informative speech on filmmaking in India: |
267 |
8 |
0.945 |
175.32 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
111.93 |
111.93 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 377. |
#4190096 |
Appropriateness also depends on the audience. If you keep this in mind, it will help you greatly when dealing with technical topics. When addressing an audience of physicians, you might use the word "parotitis" to refer to a viral disease marked by the swelling of the parotid glands. Your audience would know just what you meant. But when talking to a nonmedical audience, such as your classmates, the appropriate word would be "mumps". |
437 |
9 |
0.944 |
144.51 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
105.76 |
105.76 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 378. |
#4190295 |
This is a textbook on electricity and magnetism, designed for an undergraduate course at the junior or senior level. It can be covered comfortably in two semesters, maybe even with room to spare for special topics (AC circuits, numerical methods, plasma physics, transmission lines, antenna theory, etc.) A one-semester course could reasonably stop after Chapter 7. |
365 |
11 |
0.941 |
157.89 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
118.99 |
118.99 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 379. |
#4190394 |
A new poster had suddenly appeared all over London. It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or four meters high, striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip. From whatever angle you looked at the poster, the muzzle of the gun, magnified by the foreshortening, seemed to be pointed straight at you. |
415 |
7 |
0.941 |
148.81 — Glevion (glevion) |
127.50 |
127.50 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 380. |
#4190304 |
But I fancy that all this may impress German readers somewhat differently. The orthodox tradition, which ruled in nineteenth-century England, never took so firm a hold of German thought. There have always existed important schools of economists in Germany who have strongly disputed the adequacy of the classical theory for the analysis of contemporary events. |
360 |
10 |
0.941 |
137.26 — (keegant) |
107.82 |
107.82 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 381. |
#4190014 |
The rise of new communication technologies changed this, providing speakers with ever-expanding options for bringing their message to an audience. In 1923, Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential address broadcast on radio. |
232 |
9 |
0.939 |
143.62 — (sidd_) |
105.68 |
105.68 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 382. |
#4190262 |
In the world of eSports, players play computer and gaming system games for profit, while fans watch and even create wagers on who will win. This seemingly innocent phenomenon has grown tremendously in recent years, and now thousands will come to live events where leading teams of gamers go head to head against each other, battling to see who can come out on top. Online viewing of popular tournaments can draw millions of viewers. With this phenomenon, video gaming has become a spectator sport. |
497 |
2 |
0.939 |
128.21 — Firefingers (birthdaykids) |
108.76 |
108.76 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 383. |
#4190018 |
Listeners' worldviews can also affect how they they respond to a speaker's ideas during a presentations. For instance, consider the continuing public debate on DREAM Act legislation (enacted in California in 2011), which gives undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children some form of legal status if they serve in the military or complete a college education. |
381 |
10 |
0.938 |
145.33 — Glevion (glevion) |
112.40 |
112.40 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 384. |
#4190023 |
Concerns about free expression and ethics are not a new consideration in public speaking. In the first century C.E., the Roman rhetorician Quintilian argued that parents and teachers should strive to produce "the good person speaking well." |
240 |
14 |
0.935 |
154.40 — mako (mako640) |
113.62 |
113.62 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 385. |
#4190273 |
Many stories exist about the creation of the hot dog, and its true origin is often debated. Hot dogs as we know them today trace their origin as far back as the 15th century to various parts of Germany or Austria, such as Frankfurt or Vienna. More current references to dachshund sausages and hot dogs are attributed to German immigrants in the 1800s. |
351 |
8 |
0.934 |
146.85 — mako (mako640) |
116.29 |
116.29 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 386. |
#4190132 |
The situation showed little development for a while. No one contacted Tengo. No messages arrived from Komatsu or Professor Ebisuno or Fuka-Eri. They all might have forgotten him and gone off to the moon. Tengo woul dhave no problem with that if it were true, but things would never work out so conveniently for him. |
315 |
5 |
0.932 |
140.02 — (sidd_) |
113.56 |
113.56 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 387. |
#4190083 |
For example, if you see the medical use of stem cells as "immoral," as "scientifically irresponsible," and as a "violation of human life," you will likely oppose it. But if you see the medical use of stem cells as "moral," as "scientifically responsible," and as a way to "alleviate pain and suffering," you will likely support it. |
331 |
8 |
0.931 |
171.65 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
118.21 |
118.21 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 388. |
#4190046 |
Then, there is the virtual guilt of the innocent bystanders, of the collective who profit from a (necessary) crime. |
115 |
16 |
0.930 |
188.58 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
116.68 |
116.68 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 389. |
#4190368 |
A more serious dispute arose with the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz. Both Leibniz and Newton had independently developed a branch of mathematics called calculus, which underlies most of modern physics. Although we now know that Newton discovered calculus years before Leibniz, he published his work much later. A major row ensued over who had been first, with scientists vigorously defending both contenders. |
415 |
6 |
0.930 |
90.12 — Omk (omk1) |
83.13 |
83.13 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 390. |
#4190019 |
The worldview of opponents of such legislation led to a very different response. For example, Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation for Immigration Reform, contended that "parents are responsible for the consequences that their actions and choices have on their kids." |
277 |
4 |
0.928 |
149.76 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
116.96 |
116.96 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 391. |
#4190076 |
We thus enter the domain of obscenity: when a credit is accorded, the debtor is not even expected to return it - the debt is directly treated as a means of control and domination. |
179 |
8 |
0.924 |
166.68 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
131.71 |
131.71 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 392. |
#4190060 |
Reactions to this weird episode were a mixture of laughter (which was gradually suppressed as undignified) and outrage. |
119 |
6 |
0.923 |
167.66 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
105.88 |
105.88 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 393. |
#4190124 |
Tengo picked up his cup and took a drink of his tea, which, by now, was somewhat cool. "So, what you're saying I'm a candidate for a grant as a fledgling novelist, is that it?" |
176 |
9 |
0.923 |
174.21 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
113.01 |
113.01 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 394. |
#4190206 |
"Then we must be more careful," said Gandalf. "If you bring a Ranger with you, it is well to pay attention to him, especially if the Ranger is Aragorn. We must stop talking aloud, rest quietly, and set the watch." |
213 |
7 |
0.920 |
174.13 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
135.92 |
135.92 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 395. |
#4190073 |
The words of the song (and the staging of the video) obviously poke fun at the meaninglessness and vacuity of Gangnam style, some claim even in a subtly subversive way - but we are nonetheless entranced, caught in the stupid marching rhythm, participating in it in pure mimesis; flash mobs pop up all around the world imitating moments of the song, etc. |
353 |
3 |
0.920 |
171.57 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
138.08 |
138.08 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 396. |
#4190167 |
"Finding my way is not my strong suit. If you want a navigator I'll send for him, but hold me blameless should your melancholy triumph and you drown yourself in the brook, your gentle ladies weeping damply around your pale and lovely corpse. Let them say, 'She was not lost in the map, confident as she was in her navigator, but lost in heart for want of a fool.'" |
364 |
4 |
0.917 |
149.34 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
137.63 |
137.63 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 397. |
#4190038 |
By using words in your speeches deliberately for their connotative meanings, you can make a powerful impression on your audience. For example, a student named Betty made the following statement in her presentation on the history of hairstyles in the twentieth century: "In the roaring twenties, the short 'bob,' or 'flapper' haircut, exploded onto the scene through the rise of silent film star Louise Brooks." |
410 |
9 |
0.917 |
142.37 — Cameron (gnikgg) |
109.77 |
109.77 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 398. |
#4190360 |
The point is that the theory of relativity says that there is no unique measure of time that all observers will agree on Rather, each observer has his or her own measure of time. If it is possible for a rocket traveling below the speed of light to get from event A (say, the final of the 100-meter race of the Olympic Games in 202) to event B (say, the opening of the 100,004th meeting of the Congress of Alpha Centauri), then all observers will agree that event A happened before event B according to their times. |
514 |
7 |
0.916 |
157.46 — Glevion (glevion) |
97.70 |
97.70 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 399. |
#4190448 |
Upon hearing that one of the unemployed brothers was an ex-drill master from Wichita, Kansas, I organized a drill team of six-footers whose duty it was to march through the streets striking up sparks with their hobnailed shoes. On the day of the parade they drew crowds faster than a dogfight on a country road. The People's Hot Foot Squad, we called them, and when they drilled fancy formations down Seventh Avenue in the springtime dusk they set the streets ablaze. |
467 |
6 |
0.915 |
176.58 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
120.83 |
120.83 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 400. |
#4190072 |
As a curiosity, it is worth noting that the 'Gangnam Style' video surpassed Justin Bieber's 'Beauty and a Beat' on YouTube, thus becoming the most watched YouTube video of all time. On 21 December 2012, it reached the magic number of one billion views- and since 21 December was the day when those who took seriously the predictions of the Mayan calendar were expecting the end of the world, one can say that the Ancient Mayas were right: the fact that a 'Gangnam Style' video gets a billion views effectively is the sign of the collapse of a civilization. |
556 |
8 |
0.915 |
166.65 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
126.93 |
126.93 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 401. |
#4190041 |
One of the weird consequences of the 2008 financial meltdown and the measures taken to counteract it (enormous sums of money to help banks) was the revival of the work of Ayn Rand, the fullest ideological expression of radical 'greed is good' capitalism: the sales of her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged exploded. |
308 |
9 |
0.914 |
154.50 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
120.75 |
120.75 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 402. |
#4190079 |
The solution is to include in your speaking outline delivery cues - directions for delivering the speech. One way to do this is by underlining or otherwise highlighting key ideas that you want to be sure to emphasize. |
217 |
4 |
0.913 |
151.63 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
119.68 |
119.68 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 403. |
#4190049 |
The predominant ecological discourse which addresses us as a priori guilty, indebted to Mother Nature, under the constant pressure of the ecological superego-agency, addresses us as individuals: What did you do today to repay your debt to nature? |
246 |
8 |
0.910 |
181.75 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
124.10 |
124.10 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 404. |
#4190182 |
"You're looking peaked yourself." When Jake didn't answer, he tried again. "Sure is some woman. Looks soft, but that streak of stubborn keeps her going. See there?" He pointed to the vegetable patch. "She's got something growing there. Never thought I'd see a speck of green, but there you go. She waters that thing every day. Stubborn. A stubborn woman's just bound to make things happen." |
390 |
3 |
0.909 |
140.51 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
133.22 |
133.22 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 405. |
#4190284 |
Even before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American military chiefs had agreed on a common strategy with Great Britain: Germany, the most powerful and dangerous of the Axis powers, must be defeated first. Only enough military resources would be devoted to the Pacific to hold the Japanese west of an Alaska-Hawaii-Panama defensive line. |
359 |
11 |
0.908 |
177.95 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
111.26 |
111.26 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 406. |
#4190088 |
Using language accurately is as vital to a speaker as using numbers accurately is to an accountant. One student found this out the hard way. In a speech about America's criminal justice system, he referred several times to "criminal persecution." What he meant, of course, was "criminal prosecution." This one error virtually ruined his speech. As one of his classmates said, "How can I believe what you say about our courts when you don't even know the difference between prosecution and persecution?" |
502 |
4 |
0.907 |
131.22 — Firefingers (birthdaykids) |
95.42 |
95.42 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 407. |
#4190062 |
The original title of Julien Gracq's novel The Opposing Shore is Le rivage des Syrtes, which refers to the southernmost region of Orsenna, a fictional stand-in for Italy, where there are cars but no electricity, a country ruled by the ancient and decadent city of the same name which seems to be-but isn't quite-Venice. |
319 |
8 |
0.907 |
183.57 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
138.92 |
138.92 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 408. |
#4190230 |
There was a younger dwarf at Gloin's side: his son Gimli. Beside Glorfindel there was several other counselors of Elrond's household, of whom Erestor was the chief; and with him was Galdor, an Elf from the Grey Havens who had come on an errand from Cirdan the Shipwright. There was also a strange Elf clad in green and brown, Legolas, a messenger from his father, Thranduil, the King of the Elves of Northern Mirkwood. And seated a little apart was a tall man with a fair and noble face, dark-haired and grey-eyed, proud and stern of glance. |
541 |
14 |
0.906 |
147.56 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
105.64 |
105.64 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 409. |
#4190274 |
Folklore suggests that hot dogs first became popular in the U.S. when a German immigrant began selling them from a cart in the Bowery district of New York City. In 1871, Charles Feltman opened the first Coney Island hot dog stand, and their popularity grew and spread south where the first sausage was served at a baseball park in 1893, creating the bond between hot dogs and baseball. |
385 |
13 |
0.906 |
171.21 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
121.52 |
121.52 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 410. |
#4190057 |
Alain Badiou opposes a new 'affirmative' dialectics to (what he considers) the classic dialectical logic of negativity which engenders out of its own movement a new positivity. |
176 |
3 |
0.905 |
149.45 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
124.04 |
124.04 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 411. |
#4190008 |
An interval is the distance between two pitches. When these two pitches occur at the same time, we call the distance a harmonic interval. When they occur one after the other, we call the distance a melodic interval. Consider the following musical example: the Soprano (S.) and Alto (A.) voices of Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua (from the middle of the Gloria section). |
366 |
10 |
0.905 |
169.42 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
117.69 |
117.69 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 412. |
#4190281 |
Developments on the Eastern Front also aided the success of the invasion. In early 1943 the Russians destroyed a German army at Stalingrad. The Germans tried to regain the initiative in the summer of 1943, attacking a Soviet-held salient near the Russian city of Kursk. In the largest tank battle known to history, they suffered a resounding defeat. Henceforth, they remained on the defensive, in constant retreat, while the Soviets advanced westward, retaking major portions of the Ukraine and White Russia during the fall and winter and launching an offensive around Leningrad in January 1944. By March 1944 Soviet forces had reentered Polish territory, and a Soviet summer offensive had prevented the Germans from transferring troops to France. |
747 |
4 |
0.902 |
167.44 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
132.02 |
132.02 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 413. |
#4190227 |
Immediately, though everything else remained as before, dim and dark, the shapes became terribly clear. He was able to see beneath their black wrappings. There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. |
421 |
6 |
0.902 |
187.10 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
112.55 |
112.55 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 414. |
#4190118 |
Intervals from the dominant triad, very common in melodic writing, are the same as those from the tonic triad, but in a different context. In major keys, syllable names for members of the V triad are sol-ti-re (ascending), and the scale degree numbers are 5-7-2, as at a and b below. Observe also that c, its members can be identified as R-3-5 of the triad. |
357 |
10 |
0.900 |
128.16 — zapakh (zapakh) |
106.36 |
106.36 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 415. |
#4190080 |
Another way is to jot down on the outline explicit cues such as "pause," "repeat," "slow down," "louder," and so forth. Both techniques are good aids for beginning speakers, but they are also used by most experienced speakers. |
226 |
5 |
0.900 |
123.82 — Ian Brandon Anderson (hi_i_... |
109.26 |
109.26 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 416. |
#4190058 |
The ruling ideology mobilizes its entire arsenal to prevent us from reaching this radical insight. |
98 |
6 |
0.899 |
174.07 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
135.83 |
135.83 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 417. |
#4190056 |
So, even if the emancipatory struggle begins as an opposition to state apparatuses, it has to change its target. |
112 |
7 |
0.899 |
169.38 — Glevion (glevion) |
118.96 |
118.96 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 418. |
#4190194 |
Of these words we could understand little, and we spoke to our father, Denethor, Lord of Minas Tirith, wise in the lore of Gondor. This only would he say, that Imladris was of old the name among the Elves of a far northern dale, where Elrond, the Half Elven dwelt, greatest of lore-masters. |
290 |
5 |
0.898 |
117.12 — pangea (pangeacake) |
95.88 |
95.88 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 419. |
#4190117 |
In melodic writing, examples of the Neopolitan triad as three successive tones are not common. Nevertheless, example 19.20 shows the complete triad in both ascending and form; see also example 19.29 |
198 |
13 |
0.896 |
163.21 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
120.56 |
120.56 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 420. |
#4190065 |
After the specialists (economic and military analysts, psychologists, meteorologists...) propose their multiple, elaborated and refined analysis, somebody must assume the simple and for that very reason most difficult act of transposing this complex multitude-where for every reason for there are two reasons against-into a simple 'Yes' or 'No': we shall attack; we continue to wait. |
383 |
8 |
0.895 |
183.72 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
123.15 |
123.15 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 421. |
#4190089 |
Cluttered speech has become a national epidemic. Whatever happened to such simple words as "before," "if," and "now"? When last seen they were being routed by their cluttered counterparts: "prior to," "in the eventuality of," and "at this point in time." By the same token,, why can't politicians say, "We have a crisis," instead of saying, "We are facing a difficult crisis situation that will be troublesome to successfully resolve"? |
435 |
10 |
0.894 |
151.67 — mako (mako640) |
127.93 |
127.93 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 422. |
#4190412 |
Three Vulcans, including T'Mir (great-grandmother of T'Pol) and Mestral, are stranded on Earth after coming to the planet to observe its first artificial satellite, Sputnik. They live among and mingle with humans in Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania for several months. Upon their rescue, Mestral elects to stay on Earth, disguised as a human, for the rest of his life. |
362 |
10 |
0.893 |
149.77 — leonidas (awsomaw) |
119.81 |
119.81 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 423. |
#4190280 |
As the Allies advanced up the mountainous spine of Italy, they confronted a series of heavily fortified German defensive positions, anchored on rivers or commanding terrain features. The brilliant delaying tactics of the German commander in Italy, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, exacted a high price for every Allied gain. The campaign in Italy became an endless siege, fought in rugged terrain, in often appalling conditions, and with limited resources. |
456 |
4 |
0.891 |
140.24 — Cameron (gnikgg) |
119.02 |
119.02 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 424. |
#4190000 |
Welcome to The Clicking Championship 1! You are typing an original text from our custom universe, thanks for signing up and participating in the tournament. Hopefully you don't get any texts with too many strange numbers like $420.00 or 3.1415. Remember, when in doubt: just type fast. |
285 |
9 |
0.891 |
151.39 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
124.94 |
124.94 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 425. |
#4190101 |
Here's a word of advice - to all the avid typists: Do. Not. Slow. Down- even in the face of a torrent of punctuation. Naturally, the human tendency, although noble in spirit, is to read phrases, sentences, and stanzas in a logical, musical rhythm. We cadence toward the ends of sentences, we take breaks with each comma. We pause - but the objective of typing quickly is to be as rapid as possible! I repeat: Do, not, pause, in-between, punctuation marks. Just keep typing. |
473 |
6 |
0.885 |
144.98 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
98.83 |
98.83 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 426. |
#4190092 |
The impact of the passage was heightened by Churchill's superb delivery; but even by themselves the words take on an emphatic rhythm that reinforces the message. You can see why one observer said that Churchill "mobilized the English language and sent it into battle." |
268 |
4 |
0.881 |
115.42 — zapakh (zapakh) |
107.91 |
107.91 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 427. |
#4190100 |
When you normally collect an item that Link holds up, the game freezes other entities by setting one of Link's state flags (specifically, Link Instance + 0x66C, flag 0x20000000), sets a state flag noting that Link is getting an item (Instance + 0x66C, flag 0x00000400), and sets Link state such that the player can no longer move him. If you trigger an event that can zero out the freeze entities flag after you've collected an item you can re-enable enemy movement, which allows you to take damage from an enemy, which forces a state change and allows you to control Link while the item getting flag is still set. |
614 |
11 |
0.880 |
133.59 — mako (mako640) |
105.25 |
105.25 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 428. |
#4190126 |
Tengo stared at Ushikawa, saying nothing. Ushikawa narrowed his eyes and started scratching one of his big earlobes. The ears themselves were small, but Ushikawa's earlobes were strangely big. Ushikawa's physical oddities were an unending source of fascination. |
261 |
12 |
0.875 |
174.54 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
109.81 |
109.81 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 429. |
#4190152 |
"I accept your apology, Asher," the Instructor said. He was smiling. "And I thank you, because once again you have provided an opportunity for a lesson in language. 'Distraught' is too strong an adjective to describe salmon-viewing." He turned and wrote "distraught" on the instructional board. Beside it he wrote "distracted." |
327 |
4 |
0.871 |
175.43 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
135.48 |
135.48 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 430. |
#4190040 |
There is a wonderfully dialectical joke in Lubitsch's Ninotchka. The hero visits a cafeteria and orders coffee without cream, to which the waiter replies: 'Sorry, but we have run out of cream. Can I bring you coffee without milk?' In both cases, the customer gets coffee alone, but this One-coffee is each time accompanied by a different negation, first coffee-with-no-cream, then coffee-with-no-milk. |
401 |
14 |
0.871 |
149.91 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
118.78 |
118.78 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 431. |
#4190155 |
He listened politely, though not very attentively, while his father took his turn, describing a feeling of worry that he'd had that day at work: a concern about one of the newchildren who wasn't doing well. Jonas's father's title was Nurturer. He and the other Nurturers were responsible for all the physical and emotional needs of every newchild during its earliest life. It was a very important job, Jonas knew, but it wasn't one that interested him much. |
457 |
3 |
0.869 |
106.88 — (bruhdooh) |
93.56 |
93.56 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 432. |
#4190166 |
Cordelia's chambers lay in the North Tower; the quickest way there was atop the outer wall. As I crossed over the great main gatehouse, a young spot-faced yeoman called, "Hail, Earl of Gloucester!" Below, the greybeard Gloucester and his retinue were crossing the drawbridge. |
275 |
6 |
0.868 |
130.52 — zapakh (zapakh) |
109.88 |
109.88 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 433. |
#4190067 |
But is this effectively the case? Is the only alternative to the Master the (potentially 'totalitarian') 'boss'? In psychoanalysis, the Master is by definition an impostor, and the whole point of the analytic process is to dissolve the transference to the Master qua 'subject supposed to know' - the conclusion of analysis involves the fall of the subject-supposed-to-know. |
373 |
4 |
0.868 |
172.93 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
142.52 |
142.52 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 434. |
#4190306 |
Another feature, especially characteristic of this book, is the theory of the rate of interest. In recent times it has been held by many economists that the rate of current saving determined the supply of free capital, that the rate of current investment governed the demand for it, and that the rate of interest was, so to speak, the equilibrating price-factor determined by the point of intersection of the supply curve of savings and the demand curve of investment. |
468 |
10 |
0.868 |
184.83 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
120.58 |
120.58 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 435. |
#4190051 |
Nietzsche wrote, apropos of Hamlet: 'What must a person have suffered if he needs to be a clown that badly! - Is Hamlet understood? It is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad.' |
183 |
18 |
0.865 |
176.33 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
122.82 |
122.82 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 436. |
#4190122 |
Aomame pursed her lips, searching for something she could say, but the words did not come to her immediately. "But... from what you told me last time... I thought Tsubasa always had somebody nearby when she slept... in the same room... as a precaution." |
253 |
2 |
0.859 |
139.63 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
121.03 |
121.03 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 437. |
#4190012 |
Again, there are only seven different uninflected seventh chords. For most of them, you can just add a 7 to the triad's quality (for roots of C, D, E, and A). The seventh chord on G is Major-minor, and the one on B is half-diminished. |
234 |
7 |
0.858 |
104.27 — ⛧🦇🎃💀🎃🦇⛧ ... |
79.47 |
79.47 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 438. |
#4190045 |
What we encounter here is the dialectical logic of historical trans-functionalization: in a changed historical constellation, a remnant of the pre-modern past can start to function as the symbol of what is traumatically unbearable in extreme modernity. |
252 |
3 |
0.856 |
130.13 — Kathy (nonquitforizzy) |
123.66 |
123.66 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 439. |
#4190039 |
Listen, I'm really glad you've joined this tournament. I think it's a serious endeavor whose merits will truly be fruitful. Also, I'd like to thank one of our most generous sponsors: X-Bows. Repeat after me: I love X-Bows, I love X-Bows, I love X-Bows, I love X-Bows, I love X-Bows, I love X-Bows, I love X-Bows, I really do enjoy the quality products from X-Bows. I'd even go so far as to say, "I love X-Bows." |
411 |
4 |
0.832 |
139.73 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
121.05 |
121.05 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 440. |
#4190186 |
Beethoven's two clarinet trios were composed within the space of just under two years, viz op. 11, during the first part of 1798 and the Septet op. 20 (from which the Trio op. 38 was to eventuate) at the end of 1799/beginning of 1800. However, Beethoven did not commence with the process of working out the actual trio version until 1802/1803. The theme of the variations in the final movement of op. 11, "Pria ch'io l'impegno" ("Before 1 begin work"), originates from J. Weigl's opera "L'amor marinaro" (first performance Vienna 1797), then quite a popular subject and one which also served as a basis for piano variations written by several composers including J. Eybler, J. N. Hummel and J. Gelinek. |
702 |
12 |
0.826 |
144.94 — mako (mako640) |
112.97 |
112.97 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 441. |
#4190438 |
The voice throbbed with icy authority and I quieted and tried to contain the pain. I discovered now that my head was encircled by a piece of cold metal like the iron cap worn by the occupant of an electric chair. I tried unsuccessfully to struggle, to cry out. But the people were so remote, the pain so immediate. A faced moved in and out of the circle of lights, peering for a moment, then disappeared. |
404 |
7 |
0.820 |
160.74 — mako (mako640) |
106.04 |
106.04 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 442. |
#4190258 |
"By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!" "There's not much left of it to storm," said Eilowny. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can." |
279 |
13 |
0.807 |
147.49 — mako (mako640) |
104.79 |
104.79 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 443. |
#4190053 |
Recall Paul Robeson's rewriting of his legendary 'Ol' Man River', a model of simple and efficient critico-ideological intervention. |
131 |
15 |
0.798 |
152.05 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
109.83 |
109.83 |
February 3, 2019 |
| 444. |
#4190121 |
"You heard from Tamaru that the safe house guard dog died, didn't you - in that inexplicable way?" "Yes, I did." "After that, Tsubasa disappeared." Aomame frowned slightly. "Disappeared?" |
187 |
10 |
0.783 |
125.74 — Vielle (arc_sec) |
100.67 |
100.67 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 445. |
#4190168 |
"Rhymes?" I inquired. "You're looming about all diaphanous in the middle of the day, puking cryptic rhymes? Low craft and tawdry art, ghosting about at noon - a parson's fart heralds darker doom, thou babbling wisp." |
216 |
13 |
0.777 |
134.50 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
94.91 |
94.91 |
February 2, 2019 |
| 446. |
#4190104 |
I would like to thank the following individuals for their suggestions as I prepared the manuscript for the ninth edition: Richard Hoffman (Belmont University), Keith Salley (Shenandoah University), Christine Linial (University of Texas at San Antonio), William Harbinson (Appalachian State University), James Hutchings (Carl Sandburg College), Danny Beard (University of South Mississippi), Jeffrey L. Gillespie (Butler University), and Jill T. Brasky (University of South Florida). |
482 |
8 |
0.744 |
146.43 — im liquid smooth (chakk) |
99.72 |
99.72 |
February 2, 2019 |