"Parallel with the street," wrote the topographer HW Timperley in the 1930s, "and a bowshot from it, the Kennet rolls its deep and clear chalk waters beneath the bowery margins of a score of pleasant gardens ..." ❋ Unknown (2011)
He embarked on the trip with the backing of Yale, private companies, a few friends and even President William Howard Taft, a fellow Yalie, who assigned a government topographer to accompany the expedition. ❋ Alvaro Vargas Llosa (2010)
Nick Crane, topographer and presenter of TV series Map Man, thinks they may have used an astrolabe - a highly technical instrument used by classical astronomers, navigators and astrologers which involved checking the horizon, the stars, the sun and all sorts of angles. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Fifty minutes of corrugated iron, biscuits, Shell Guides (only Meades can get away with saying they were edited by "John Betjeman - the topographer not the poet") a Morris Minor Traveller in the obligatory bucolic green and a black stick standing-in for an eel. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)
As rescuers spent 16 days in frustrated attempts to drill a rescue hole 700 metres down to the trapped men, Urzua also used his training as a topographer to make detailed maps of the miners 'underground world, which includes more than 2km of tunnels, caves and a 35 square metre refuge. ❋ Chile Jonathan Franklin San Jose Mine (2010)
If some bright topographer or mathematician could devise an algorithm for computer-generate one and only one configuration of electoral districts (inputting the center-points of each censused area in the state, and only requiring each district to be undivided) for each state every 10 years, the drawing of electoral districts would be effectively removed from the political process. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One of these non-graduates was Samuel Stinson Gannett, a topographer for the U. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Comandine down to the present topographer; who being of no rank as it were, has the fortune to be treated on almost friendly footing by all, from his lordship down to the tradesman. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He's a topographer, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Since his retirement a few years ago, F. Depuydt has continued this work with great dedication assisted by his wife Annemie (also a topographer). ❋ Unknown (2003)
We were also pleased to have topographer Sabri Aydal from the same museum, and already twice the temsilci at Sagalassos. ❋ Unknown (2003)
This week, we were joined by Istanbul Technical University architects (Ayca Taylan, Nazli Odevci and Nazli Tumerdem) and De Nayer Institute Sint-Katelijne Waver topographer (Inge Nackaerts, Belgium) to record the churches in the western part of the city. ❋ Unknown (2003)
During the first day of the intensive archaeological survey at Düzen Tepe, the "Ur-Sagalassos," work began with a day of soil sampling on several locations, while topographer Sabri Aydal from the Antalya Museum, aided by Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, continued mapping the surface remains. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I found that the redoubtable phantom, the Belludo, had been time out of mind a favorite theme of nursery tales and popular traditions in Granada, and that honorable mention had even been made of it by an ancient historian and topographer of the place. ❋ Unknown (2002)
I forbear to dwell upon the marvellous details given by the simple-minded Mateo about this redoubtable phantom, which has, in fact, been time out of mind a favorite theme of nursery tales and popular tradition in Granada, and of which honorable mention is made by an ancient and learned historian and topographer of the place. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The man who could have helped him most, his topographer Jed Hotchkiss, was not with him. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
[The mountain] ranges were [drawn] [topographically]
Ctb1987 ❋ Ctb1987lx (2023)
