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1. She was in her early thirties and a meteoric rise to success had angered and frustrated many of her male colleagues
2. ” Reflecting on Pops’ meteoric rise in the broadcast industry, Broadcasting Magazine, in its issue of February 3, 1964, said: “If reverse logic can be applied to the maxim that idle hands are the Devil’s tools, then Roy H
3. The man opposite him, Merodach, was his closest friend since his meteoric rise to power five years ago
4. The meteoric iron turned gray and crumbled
5. It is simple to explain the reason for such a meteoric rise in sales
6. “Beck had a meteoric rise through the army
7. His rise after the fire bombings had been meteoric
8. His career was meteoric, and he was soon near the top of the greasy pole
9. His meteoric rise from poverty to being a multi-millionaire probably contributed – success came too quickly
10. 2002, the meteoric rise in earnings was punctuated by five years of solid risk management
11. In only a short time, he’d had a meteoric career
12. Ever since his meteoric rise to power and Glory 2 ½ thousand years ago: what has been his legacy? Two and a half thousand of the same idiotic plots, the same players, the same results, the same outcome
13. Because Hitler’s youth programs created millions of young happy healthy Germans in his first years of his meteoric rise to power
14. The various colours significant of various degrees of vitality (white, yellow, crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular cinctures of Saturn: the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the interdependent gyrations of double suns: the independent synchronous discoveries of Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel, Galle: the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution: the almost infinite compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast elliptical egressive and reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion: the sidereal origin of meteoric stones: the Libyan floods on Mars about the period of the birth of the younger astroscopist: the annual recurrence of meteoric showers about the period of the feast of S
15. Nothing was more common, in those days, than to interpret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena, that occurred with less regularity than the rise and set of sun and moon, as so many revelations from a supernatural source
16. To his features, as to all other objects, the meteoric light imparted a new expression; or it might well be that the physician was not careful then, as at all other times, to hide the malevolence with which he looked upon his victim
17. By contrast, the rise of H & R Block has been meteoric
18. 13 A chart of the meteoric rise of the Dubai Stock Market is highlighted in Figure 10
19. SAMSUNG: $32,893 million “…one of the biggest successes of 2012, marked by a meteoric 40% rise in brand value…”
20. —The wearing down of land by the action of the sea or of meteoric agencies
21. I believe meteoric stones to result from all meteoric explosions; limiting, however, the term meteor to those phenomena, in the higher regions of the air, denominated fire-balls, shooting-stars, &c
22. That meteors proceed from the earth, that they arise from certain combinations of its elements with heat, and that meteoric stones are the necessary result of the decompositions of these combinations, are opinions I will endeavour to support, by the following considerations
23. The identity that exists between the component parts of meteoric stones, and the elements that enter abundantly into the composition of our globe; and, by several other facts and arguments
24. [38] The exterior strata of the earth, and especially the more exposed parts thereof, envelope in their compounds, elements of an identity of character with those composing meteoric stones
25. Now if the above principles are admitted, we have in their application a reasonable solution of most meteoric phenomena
26. Meteoric stones frequently bear the marks of violence, which is doubtless owing to the conflict sustained at the moment of explosion; their difference in size depends on the difference of magnitude in the disploding volumes; something like regular arrangement is frequently perceived in the structure of these stones, because in all productions of solid from fluid matter, the consolidating particles possess a tendency to arrange themselves in the order of their affinities
27. There is a real, as well as an apparent difference in the velocity of meteoric bodies; the first arising from their difference of magnitude and the violence of the explosion, as well as from the resistance they meet; the latter, from the different distances at which they are seen
28. The third general head of my subject leads me to inquire into the constituent principles of meteoric stones: sundry papers on the analysis of these productions, have been furnished us by chemists of acknowledged reputation and ability, and in none of these that I have seen, was there any element described that had not been previously known
29. If it be said that the specific gravity of meteoric stones being several times that of water, it is absurd to suppose they can rise, (if even reduced to the state of gas) to the elevated stations here assigned them, seeing the vapours of water can ascend only one or two miles above the earth
30. I answer, if it be admitted that sensible heat acts on solids in an increasing ratio to its intensity, it follows that lower degrees, though acting in an inverse ratio to higher, must affect the same bodies in a conceivable degree at any temperature above their natural zero:[40] and though the heat of the sun beating on a plane surface for several hours is feeble, compared with that produced by a burning lens, or air furnace, yet if it be sufficient to detach from one square foot of the earth's surface the 104023 part of a grain in twenty-four hours, the quantity taken from 100 square miles, in the same time and proportion, would amount to ten pounds, which is abundantly sufficient for all meteoric phenomena; and the loss to each square foot, supposing the process to be uninterrupted, would be no more than one grain in 284 years
31. The last consideration I shall offer in favour of the domestic or earthly origin of meteoric phenomena, is the difficulties that present to our granting them a foreign one
32. The products of volcanoes bear no similarity of origin, or kindred resemblance to meteoric stones; those are lavas of different kinds, pumicestone, scoria, ashes, &c
33. The heat adequate to such projectile force as would carry a body from the moon's surface beyond the sphere of her attraction, would volatilize the matter of meteoric stones in a moment; hence they would not be projected from the Lunarian crater in solid masses, but in elastic vapour
34. It is thought that this powder had not a volcanic origin, and that the presence of chrome assimilates it with meteoric stones
35. I could quote one thousand instances of the extensive and multifarious operations of this meteoric dust: but I mean to give the results merely of those that fall daily under notice, and are yet totally neglected; wishing to draw on them the attention of chemists, philosophers, and geologists
36. This dust is either constantly or periodically formed, but chemically in the atmosphere like snow, hail, meteoric stones, honey-dew, earthy rains, &c
37. —, analysis of the Texas meteoric iron, xvi, 217
38. —, account of the meteoric iron of Oswego, with an analysis, xl, 366
