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The term strategic is also applied to all communications which lead by the most direct or advantageous route from one important point to another, as well as from the strategic front of the army to all of its objective points.
He put his misfortunes down to the score of Fate not to his own; and he imagined that Osborne saw his failures, and that his first-born grudged him his natural term of life.
An act was passed placing a tax upon bachelors and widowers, fixing, at the same time, 'certain rules and duties on marriages, births, and burials, for the term of five years, for the carrying on the war against France with vigor. Men were not even permitted to enjoy the subtile luxury derived from having a title attached to the name without taxation.
Shaded horizontal lines: Eocene formations. The strata next in order in the descending series are those which I term Eocene. When this map was constructed I classed as the newer part of the Eocene those Tertiary strata which have been described in the last chapter as Lower Miocene, and to which M. Beyrich has given the name of Oligocene.
It was midafternoon before Dana's hunger overcame her excitement at being on Sandeman, hiking with her chosen lord her thakur, in the Sandeman term she preferred and trying to track a balik. She hadn't gotten within two hundred meters of the wolflike predator, and had finally realized she wasn't going to, so the two found a small clearing with bare rocks which made decent seating.
To a very limited circle of friends Doctor James was known as "The Swell 'Greek." Half of the mysterious term was a tribute to his cool and gentlemanlike manners; the other half denoted, in the argot of the brotherhood, the leader, the planner, the one who, by the power and prestige of his address and position, secured the information upon which they based their plans and desperate enterprises.
It was a proud day for Chad when Caleb Hazel took him to "matriculate" leading him from one to another of the professors, who awed the lad with their preternatural dignity, but it was a sad blow when he was told that in everything but mathematics he must go to the preparatory department until the second session of the term the "kitchen," as it was called by the students.
That Eskimo returned the look even more pointedly and with deeper gravity. Then what we may term a grave smile flitted across the features of the Eskimo. A similar smile enlivened the features of the seaman.
They were not malicious. They did not want to see their friends in difficulties. But there is no denying that a row does break the monotony of a school term. The thrilling feeling that something is going to happen is the salt of life.... And here they were, right in it after all. The blow had fallen, and crushed guilty and innocent alike. The school's attitude can be summed up in three words.
Here Monsieur Becker paused, as though composing his mind to gather up his ideas. Presently he continued, as follows: "After establishing mathematically that man lives eternally in spheres of either a lower or a higher grade, Swedenborg applies the term 'Spiritual Angels' to beings who in this world are prepared for heaven, where they become angels.
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