19. the answer to a clue in a crossword 20. in light of in the light of in view of; taking into account; considering 21. light at the end of the tunnel hope for the ending of a difficult or unpleasant situation 22. out like a light quickly asleep or unconscious 23. see the light...
The World Wide Web has become a preferred platform for many kinds of application development. Over the past decade, applications that formerly would have been designed for the desktop – calendars, travel reservation systems, purchasing systems, library card catalogs, map viewers,crossword puzzles, ...
Even if I missed the joke, though, there’s a difference between skewering the behaviors of an entire social class and being laugh-out-loud funny. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 1, in which the generational differences between Pauline (mère) and Nona (...
8460 CROSSWORD: A SEMANTIC APPROACH TO TEXT COMPRESSION VIA MASKING 4207 CROWD MODELING AND CONTROL VIA COOPERATIVE ADAPTIVE FILTERING 8502 Crowdsourced and Automatic Speech Prominence Estimation 9588 Crowdsourced multilingual speech intelligibility testing 7740 CryCeleb: A Speaker Verification Dataset Based ...
WebCrow is a good example of the issues that are already arising. During the crossword competition, it downloaded as many as 200 pages per minute. Search engines offer a great public service, which in this case is being used to solve crosswords—not for private profit but in a curiosity-...
Befuddled by a crossword puzzle, Hawkeye persuades Potter to get his old friend Tippy Brooks, a whiz at puzzles, brought to camp. Tippy arrives with his commanding officer, thinking it's a medical emergency. Having scrubbed up and helped out with the wounded they provided the needed solution...
Back to my apartment in time to call Neil at a reasonable morning hour, after he walks Kali but before he settles into his lengthy breakfast routine (food, news, Sudoku, crossword puzzle, comics, etc.). I think it’s the first time we’ve actually talked, not texted. By evening, I...
Her time is divided between watching TV, reading, doing crossword puzzles, handling multiple phone calls, the occasional (non-work-related) e-mail, and resting. The range of motion on her left arm has increased quite a bit. There is some numbness on portions of her arm, but it’s way...
In my case I usually spent some time on the Daily Telegraph crossword and then picked up my paperback book. The bookreading put me to sleep very quickly, and I didn’t finish the book for several weeks. Throughout my journey I found that the combination of exercise, fresh air and ...