"Ophidion" is a word in ENGLISH
The typical genus of ophidioid fishes. [Written also
Ophidium.] See Illust. under Ophidioid.
My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly and we had loved the big studio with the great paintings. I t was like one of the best rooms in the finest museum except there was a big fireplace and it was warm and comfortable and they gave you good things to eat and tea and natural distilled liqueurs made from purple plums, yellow plums or wild raspberries.Miss Stein was very big but not tall and was heavily built like a peasant woman. She had beautiful eyes and a strong German-Jewish face that also could have been Friulano and she reminded me of a northern I talian peasant woman with her clothes, her mobile face and her lovely, thick, alive immigrant hair which she wore put up in the same way she had probably worn it in college. She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.Her companion had a very pleasant voice, was small, very dark, with her hair cut like Joan of Arc in the Boutet de Monvel illustrations and had a very hooked nose. She was working on a piece of needlepoint when we first met them and she worked on this and saw to the food and drink and talked to my wife. She made one conversation and listened to two and often interrupted the one she was not making. Afterwards she explained to me that she always talked to the wives. The wives, my wife and I felt, were tolerated. But we liked Miss Stein and her friend, although the friend was frightening. The paintings and the cakes and the eau-de-vie were truly wonderful. They seemed to like us too and treated us as though we were very good, well-mannered and promising children and I felt that they forgave us for being in love and being married - time would fix that - and when my wife invited them to tea, they accepted.
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An American automobile company and a Japanese auto company decided to have a competitive boat race on the Detroit River. Both teams practiced hard and long to reach their peak performance. On the big day, they were as ready as they could be.The Japanese team won by a mile.Afterwards, the American team became discouraged by the loss and their morale sagged. Corporate management decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found. A Continuous Measurable Improvement Team of "Executives" was set up to investigate the problem and to recommend appropriate corrective action.Their conclusion: The problem was that the Japanese team had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, whereas the American team had 1 person rowing and 8 people steering. The American Corporate Steering Committee immediately hired a consulting firm to do a study on the management structure.After some t ime and billions of dollars, the consulting firm concluded that "too many people were steering and not enough rowing." To prevent losing to the Japanese again next year, the management structure was changed to "4 Steering Managers, 3 Area Steering Managers, and 1 Staff Steering Manager" and a new performance system for the person rowing the boat to give more incentive to work harder and become a six sigma performer. "We must give him empowerment and enrichment." That ought to do it.The next year the Japanese team won by two miles.The American Corporation laid off the rower for poor performance, sold all of the paddles, cancelled all capital investments for new equipment, halted development of a new canoe, awarded high performance awards to the consulting firm, and distributed the money saved as bonuses to the senior executives.
Faintly representing; typical.
Read the complete definitionA fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical …
Read the complete definitionThat has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.
Read the complete definitionA genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed …
Read the complete definitionbisti n s.t. that is typical of a place. Ang kuting ug lamuk mauy bisti sa Sugbu, Bedbugs and mosquitoes …
Read the complete definitionA genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike …
Read the complete definitionThe typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.
Read the complete definitionHaving all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and …
Read the complete definitiona flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on …
Read the complete definitionThe helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
Read the complete definitionHaving the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
Read the complete definitionTo differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally …
Read the complete definitionA visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or …
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; …
Read the complete definitionA group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.
Read the complete definitionA group which includes the typical Isopoda.
Read the complete definitionThe division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of …
Read the complete definitionRepresenting by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
Read the complete definitionIn evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence in the formation of organs or parts.
Read the complete definitionVariation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in …
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