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...ate, intimate, and she hasn’t modern no- tions, God bless her! If I should sound that note first I should certainly spoil the game. I can arrive at th... ...with all the lamps, all the voices and light footsteps on marble (the only sounds of the arcades that enclose it), is like an open-air saloon dedicate... ...nd bushes looked so strange in the dark, and there were all sorts of queer sounds—she could not tell what they were—like the noises of animals. She st... ...t she had acquired by contact something of the trick of the familiar, soft-sounding, almost infantile speech of the place. I judged that she had imbib... ...mnor’s fruitless feeler would have been a solitary accident. When midnight sounded Miss Tita got up; but she stopped at the door of the house only aft... ... beautified her; she was younger; she was not a ridiculous old woman. This optical trick gave her a sort of phantasmagoric bright- ness, and while I w...

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... the character- istics of an American watering place. There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, an echo, of Newport and Saratoga. There is a f... ...stling of muslin flounces, a rattle of dance music in the morning hours, a sound of high-pitched voices at all times. You receive an impression of the... ...the personal accent, the personal accent was now making its appearance. It sounded very distinctly, at last, in her telling him she would stop “teasin... ...said Winterbourne. Mrs. Costello inspected the young couple again with her optical instrument. “He is very handsome. One easily sees how it is. She th... ...a woman, seated; her companion was standing in front of her. Presently the sound of the woman’s voice came to him distinctly in the warm night air. “W...

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...r networks and then get out of the way and let them talk." This is sound advice with a shaky conclusion. The conversion from exposure to a mar... ...o learn the lesson." But this view ignores a vital difference between sound and text. In music, what matter are the song or the musical piece. T... ...nsumer is concerned. The listener bases his or her purchasing decisions on sound quality and the faithfulness of reproduction of the listening experi... ...ica switch to multimedia and added tables and graphs to the CD. Video and sound were to make their appearance even later. This error in trend analys... ...tocopiers, video- cassettes and scanners, for instance. Blank magnetic and optical media, especially recordable CDs, are - or were - taxed in more t... ...ent for free or for a small fee. Q. Why don't simple scans or raw OCR (optical character recognition) output qualify as ebooks? What is the techn... ... million eBooks online, MT (Machine Translation) will be about where OCR (Optical Character Recognition) was when the world first started to become ... ...rator. That is why every desktop is still likely to be include a hard (or optical)-disk-resident word processing software. But very few will by CAD-... ...d parrots? Yes, unless the manufacturers equip the robots with digital or optical or molecular equivalent of the human image in varying positions (s...

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...s case with some shyness, that of images always confessing themselves mere optical symbols or echoes, expres sions of no particular thing in the text... ...vent, to be both beguiled and mystified by evolutions so near home, without sounding strange and probably even more abysmal waters. Since, however, an ... ...rment cheaply embroidered and unworthy of it, thereby most proportionately sounded their plaint. This sharp ness of appeal, the claim for exemplary d... ...est pressure—which is of course the pressure of the attention articulately sounded. Let it reward as much as it will and can the soundless, the “quiet... ...natural fowl running about the bassecour. His feathers, his movements, his sounds—those are the parts that, with me, are left out.” “Ah as a matter of... ...me back to him, for it had been the voice itself of his luck, the soothing sound that was always with him. “You Americans are almost incredibly romant... ...bservation by the more charmed and therefore the more reckless use of this optical resource. Not under any provocation to pro duce it in public was h...

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...red, well-fnanced project using proven equipment backed by a fnancially sound solar company. Supported by government tax credits, big U.S. solar p... ...ners sharing the costs and the viewing time on the world’s most advanced optical/ infrared observatory. The dome will be 54.8 meters (180 feet) hig... ...lescope observatory, visitors stare up at a state-of-the-art, 3.6-meter, optical/infrared telescope that is made available to astronomers from aro... ...cience Foundation, NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the Space At the 8.2-meter, optical/infrared Subaru Telescope, astronomers with the National Astronom... ... Astronomers at the eight-story W.M. Keck Observatory use twin 10-meter, optical/infrared telescopes, the world’s largest, to peer into the univer... ... in Līhu‘e on the island of Kaua‘i, Trex Advanced Materials manufactures optical and structural components from its own patented materials. Kane s... ...s two diacritical markings. The ‘okina is a glottal stop, similar to the sound between the syllables of “oh-oh.” In print, the correct mark for de... ...ka Hawai‘i Inc., is known for turning out exquisitely hand- crafted, rich-sounding ‘ukulele. Since 1916, the Kamaka family has been fashioning and... ...le, which has a unique, oval-shaped body and produces a resonant, mellow sound distinct from the more common fgure-eight-shaped instrument. Toda...

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...y were suffering from all the unhospitable environmental conditions, too. Sometimes, humans would survive longer. Radioactivity could often obfuscate optical lenses of cameras fast then it destroyed the human eye and electronic equipment can suffer from the same fate. Dust and sand are much better endured by humans than by many machines and the same holds true for humidity...

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...y were suffering from all the unhospitable environmental conditions, too. Sometimes, humans would survive longer. Radioactivity could often obfuscate optical lenses of cameras faster then it destroyed the human eye and electronic equipment can suffer from the same fate. Dust and sand are much better endured by humans than by many machines and the same holds true for humidi...