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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
most
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
highly/most/very unlikely
▪ It’s highly unlikely that he’ll survive.
make sth the best/worst/most expensive etc
▪ Over 80,000 people attended, making it the biggest sporting event in the area.
more/most likely
▪ At this age, boys were more likely than girls to be active in sports.
more/most/less/equally importantly
▪ Most importantly, you must keep a record of everything you do.
most anxious
▪ He seemed most anxious to speak to me alone.
most certainly
▪ ‘Not smoking has made a real difference.’ ‘It most certainly has.’
most exceptional (=very exceptional)
▪ A child will only be removed from the parental home in the most exceptional of cases.
most kind (=said when thanking someone very politely)
▪ Thank you for your help. You’ve been most kind.
most treasured possession
▪ A battered old guitar was his most treasured possession.
most unfortunate (=very unfortunate)
▪ It’s most unfortunate that your father can’t come to the wedding.
most/very likely
▪ I’d very likely have done the same thing in your situation.
much the best/most interesting etcBritish English
▪ It’s much the best way to do it.
quite/most extraordinaryBritish English
▪ Chris’s behaviour that morning was quite extraordinary.
second largest/most successful etc
▪ Africa’s second highest mountain
the most exceptional (=the best)
▪ George Best was one of the most exceptional footballers of all time.
the most likely/probable explanation (=one that is probably true)
▪ The most likely explanation is that John missed the bus.
▪ The most probable explanation is that the water was contaminated.
the most natural thing in the world
▪ At the time, accepting his offer had seemed the most natural thing in the world.
very/highly/most satisfactory
▪ After her initial difficulties she has made a very satisfactory recovery.
very/most probably
▪ The building will be replaced, most probably by a modern sports centre.
very/most unfair
▪ We live in a very unfair world.
very/most/highly unusual
▪ Gandhi was a most unusual politician.
What surprised...most
▪ What surprised me most was that she didn’t seem to care.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
appropriate
▪ The Purchaser must be able to elect which measure of damages is most appropriate.
▪ Are current systems for delivering defence services the most appropriate for modern conditions?
▪ Detailed analysis of this kind should enable the most appropriate method of tension reduction to be chosen for each individual patient.
▪ Runnymede offered a most appropriate site for such a memorial on account of its historical associations and its closeness to London and Heathrow.
▪ I would be grateful if you could pass the document on to the most appropriate person within your department for information.
▪ An obvious example is the weight to be given to each of the central initiatives and the most appropriate form of implementation.
▪ In computer selling, for example, successful selling requires an appreciation of which system is most appropriate given customer needs and resources.
▪ It has a name most appropriate to our profession: J Press.
basic
▪ For Ross obligatoriness or rightness, as a property of possible actions, is the most basic ethical property or relation.
▪ Hunger and fear motivate us at the most basic level.
▪ One of his first, and most basic suggestions was that prices must be raised.
▪ Those same cooks forget from year to year the most basic techniques of getting the bird to the table.
▪ The two most basic benefits are income support and unemployment benefit.
▪ Gentle gnawing on the tiny bones appeals to our most basic, primordial instincts.
▪ Kin altruism is therefore seen by sociobiologists as the most basic form of co-operative behaviour.
▪ If cooperation and exchange are to continue to flourish in our most basic social unit, family members also need reliable contracts.
beautiful
▪ She was the most beautiful girl in the entire school.
▪ Rather High Church, I gather, and a most beautiful building.
▪ Meadowgate Farm was situated in one of the most beautiful valleys around Mitford.
▪ Ludovico was the most beautiful man she had ever seen.
▪ Over the years, Rapunzel grew the longest, most beautiful hair in the world.
▪ I tried to relax my tightening nerves with mind pictures of the most beautiful landscapes of the Rambles.
▪ And if that were not enough, I was fortunate to live in one of the most beautiful towns in the state.
difficult
▪ This change of emphasis from cash to produce is probably the most difficult mental hurdle.
▪ So, Johnson said, previous conditioning was the most difficult of the many challenges to overcome.
▪ Many of our most difficult cases are those where buildings belong not to private owners but to institutions or government organizations.
▪ He is the most difficult to understand, and therefore the most fascinating.
▪ I hope to show that the incompetence that is most difficult to correct is tightly coupled with skilfulness.
▪ Black seeds are the most pungent, the most rare, and the most difficult to harvest.
▪ Captains regularly tackle the most difficult jobs with calm confidence.
▪ The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds.
effective
▪ But the immature brain cells were the most effective treatment in the rats, says Sandberg.
▪ But these are not the most effective to prevent kids from smoking.
▪ Thus computed tomography remains the most effective method for diagnosing small pulmonary metastases.
▪ Conversely, for window sizes of less than four words, strong overlap alone is the most effective.
▪ His exit, when he truly is on his last legs, is his most effective gambit.
▪ There may well be situations when the procedures modelled on adjudication are not the most effective or appropriate.
▪ The results can help doctors prescribe the most effective anti-viral drug regimen.
expensive
▪ Economics of nurse training Investigator: K Hartley Nurses are the most expensive single resource in the hospital sector.
▪ Because of this, factoring is the most expensive form of accounts receivable financing.
▪ Doctors are the most expensive health workers.
▪ Christmas and mid-February, Presidents Day, are the most expensive periods.
▪ Pain was the most expensive thing you could buy.
▪ They are the biggest and the best, the most expensive and the newest.
▪ He said it was the most expensive accident he's ever had.
famous
▪ Daley, the son of Richard J. Daley, one of Chicago's most famous mayors, had been elected in 1989.
▪ Overnight he had become the most famous man on earth.
▪ But this is the most famous club in the world.
▪ Yet Lowry was a popular hero who, when he died in 1977, was the most famous painter in Britain.
important
▪ The Woodland Trust is dedicated to protecting one of the most important features of Britain's heritage - our native broadleaved woodland.
▪ The Motorola chip is perhaps the most important.
▪ But perhaps the most important feature which makes communication possible across different sign languages is the shared culture of deaf people.
▪ The most important people involved in your personal care are the nurses.
▪ One of the most important is using information about the type of data stored in order to to prevent howlers.
▪ The most important thing in teaching basketball is why -- not how.
▪ Perhaps most important of all is the legitimacy of the system with those who are its subjects.
▪ But the second most important influence was the school itself.
influential
▪ Advanced classes study the classical works of the most influential writers of the Patristic, Medieval, Reformation and Modern periods.
▪ The most influential critics were either misanthropic or committed to the need for massive reform.
▪ Is it in the most influential publications for your market or is it in small publications with a limited circulation?
▪ Unknown to the general public, he has become one of the most influential educators of young people in the world.
▪ He was now easily the most influential person in policy-making.
▪ These Partnerships need to be representative of the most influential stakeholders, if the Compact is to be a success.
interesting
▪ But the ceiling was the most interesting part of the flat.
▪ New Line, the most interesting independent, is taking a different tack.
▪ Perhaps the most interesting point which arises from McCullough's article is that it needed to be said.
▪ The first were the most useful; the others were the most interesting.
▪ And that, I am afraid, is just about the most interesting thing you can say about it.
▪ This was the most interesting thing she had ever heard Elizabeth say, because it had undertones of cynicism, of self-mockery.
▪ They were seldom the most interesting.
likely
▪ This unit auto-senses the mains voltage, and adjusts accordingly, so is most likely to benefit international travellers.
▪ The women most likely to answer no?
▪ Statistical information about n-grams has been applied to the output to select a single most likely letter string result.
▪ They are most likely to be attached to primary schools in areas of social need, or to special schools.
▪ However, most of the women in our sample would most likely find that a very risky prospect to attempt at present.
▪ We choose the most likely meaning for it from the world, and in this case the meaning is contextual.
▪ The vocalisation you are most likely to hear is that produced by juveniles when they are playing.
obvious
▪ The most obvious example is the electoral college, the phantom body that stands between voters and the final outcome.
▪ Water, the most obvious and important resource, was not an immediate problem.
▪ Coordination between affiliated firms takes various forms but intercompany stockholding is one of the most obvious.
▪ The most obvious advantage of this system was that it made obsolete the fifty-five spheres of Aristotle.
▪ The stance is the starting-point of every kungfu move, and perhaps the most obvious progression from it is a kick.
▪ For the most obvious thing about them is that they have led to continuous bodily improvement.
▪ The most obvious form of competition for females is straight forward fighting.
▪ Under Roosevelt and Ickes, the Bureau of Reclamation underwent some fundamental changes, the most obvious of which was in size.
popular
▪ The first is the most popular.
▪ They make it easy to get their most popular product, the Windows 95 version of PKZip 2. 5.
▪ A surprise presentation was also made to one of the region's most popular charity entertainers, Billy Dobson.
▪ They also worry whether the products will include enough of the most popular features.
▪ Amid much razzmatazz PepsiCo announced that the second most popular fizzy drink in the world would henceforth come in blue packaging.
▪ We found out the most popular brand is the Yomega Brain, which costs about $ 10.
▪ The aim is to tell the surgeons about a survey which shows the most popular forms of cosmetic surgery.
▪ One of the most popular sites is the game room, where visitors can play chess, checkers and backgammon with others.
powerful
▪ The most powerful culture is that which reconciles the goals of the individual with those of the collective.
▪ Byrd thought it the most powerful, reliable plane available.
▪ Finally, there's the Acorn Archimedes A3000, which is by far the most powerful home micro available.
▪ Potentially the most powerful of support weapons were Air Force and Navy jets.
▪ The Carmen and the Petra models have two heat settings, but the Carmen model is the most powerful at 250W.
▪ The next most powerful people are successful older men.
▪ However, the most powerful response of all to the food is to its smell, or fragrance.
▪ Council business is conducted through committees, of which the Finance Committee is the most powerful.
prominent
▪ Mori recent history is commemorated by the town's most prominent statue.
▪ John McCain, R-Ariz., co-sponsor of the most prominent reform proposal on the congressional docket.
▪ The two most prominent rightists were Kim Ku and Syngman Rhee.
▪ Among these, the most prominent is the emphasis cities have placed on programs to develop or attract high-technology industries.
▪ Actually, I had offers on leaving law school from the most prominent New York firms.
▪ Although several might yet face tough races, none of the most prominent Republican governors would be considered underdogs for re-election.
▪ Within the main belt are several distinct orbital families of large asteroids, each family named for its most prominent member.
recent
▪ The calculation is limited to the 20 most recent years with the employer and subject to a maximum week's pay of £205.
▪ Make sure it has the most recent version.
▪ In practical terms this required a duration that recorded the most recent 25 hours of flying.
▪ The most recent purchase, in April, was the stretch between Willits and Novato.
▪ Fertilisations may occur over a period of a month, but the most recent foetuses have the best chance to develop.
▪ The first tranche of shares in 1987 sold at £26,000, and the most recent at a thumping £41,000.
serious
▪ Of the other runners, Yavlinsky seems most serious.
▪ Loneliness and Boredom Perhaps the most serious problem of all was simply that there was not enough adventure or diversion.
▪ The most serious problem about complete participation is a moral one rather than a practical one.
▪ One of the most serious problems is also one of the oldest.
▪ Apart from employment, the most serious implications of the policies of constraint are for housing.
▪ The most serious threat concerns control of rivers and watersheds.
▪ His most serious offence in that time was taking part in a robbery while armed with a crossbow.
▪ Expulsion from Congress is reserved for the most serious misconduct and is considered unlikely in this case.
significant
▪ One of the most significant will be a look at the next generation of fast-breeder nuclear reactors.
▪ A list of some of the most significant and of some reviews of this literature is presented in the Resource Directory.
▪ The most significant is the small goods vehicle.
▪ The most significant and expensive changes are those that go into effect Oct. 1 of this year.
▪ The Texas governorship was generally considered to be one of the most significant of the country's gubernatorial prizes.
▪ The most significant of these may be the use of helium-3 in spacecraft propulsion, in a fusion rocket.
▪ But by far the most significant change is the elevation of newsreader Trevor McDonald to superstar status.
▪ But examination of history brings out one most significant difference.
successful
▪ But the movie was not the most successful of the night.
▪ Perhaps the most successful futures project was conducted by the Florida House of Representatives.
▪ As the company believes that home grown talent is often the most successful, internal promotion is encouraged.
▪ One of the most successful political insurance firms is operated by party ancient Joe Gill.
▪ The most successful title of this type is the heavy metal bible, Kerrang.
▪ When it comes to cancer, a multidisciplinary approach is often the most successful.
▪ Today, Head Start is considered by many one of our most successful antipoverty programs.
■ VERB
interest
▪ You will find it most interesting to devise other test sets for experimental and instructional purposes.
▪ He was the one who was most interesting, because we learned from each other.
▪ Answer: a or c, but option c might be the most interesting.
▪ Some of the most interesting evidence to support this idea comes from studies on those alcohol-preferring mice discovered in the 1950s.
▪ But other details, some of the most interesting, can not be confirmed by such indirect means.
▪ The most interesting features were three narrow slots cut in the body of the raft.
▪ One of the most interesting facts about communicative intentions is that they are intended to be recognized.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at your best/worst/most effective etc
in large part/for the most part
make the most of sth
▪ Guel made the most of her time on court.
▪ Chuck Levy, meanwhile, was in for 40 offensive plays and made the most of them.
▪ Enjoy, and make the most of, the benefits that this publicity can bring to you.
▪ He made the most of it, continuing to dance.
▪ Meanwhile, Vistec is making the most of the recession and has a Pounds 4m cash pile.
▪ She made the most of it.
▪ So what they do is make the most of each player, maximizing their talent.
▪ The challenge in this book is to make the most of human relationships without becoming a victim. 2.
▪ Ward objectives will give her guidance in making the most of each allocation.
most of the time
▪ Most of the time at work I just answer the phone and type letters.
▪ Most of the time he's a really nice guy, but sometimes he can be really nasty.
▪ Most of the time people vote for the party that offers them financial advantages.
▪ Our two-year-old is happy most of the time, but he wakes up from his naps in an awful mood.
▪ This place is really busy most of the time.
▪ And it works too, most of the time.
▪ Dewar looked gloomy most of the time, being one of life's pessimists.
▪ Even after that, she continued to have headaches almost daily and felt nauseated most of the time.
▪ He took no shit from anybody, gambled constantly, and won most of the time.
▪ I don't like the way I look, most of the time, for all the reasons I've just given.
▪ Raskolnikov lives with his pain, but most of the time he doesn't focus on it.
▪ We were hungry and cold most of the time.
▪ Without visible failure most minds are closed most of the time.
next biggest/most common etc
the biggest/tallest/most expensive etc ... on earth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I guess the food I eat most is pasta.
▪ I was most surprised to hear of your engagement.
▪ It's most comfortable if I sit with my legs up.
▪ It was a most interesting experience.
▪ She liked the dark beer most.
▪ That's the most important part!
▪ The part we enjoyed most was the trip to the Grand Canyon.
▪ This style of management is most frequently used in Japan.
▪ What the people here need most of all is food and clean water.
▪ What worries me most is the effect the divorce is having on the children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Death is the most powerful of these forces.
▪ It is for the local management of the service to determine the most effective deployment of resources to meet performance targets.
▪ One of our most fundamental desires, it seems, is to know and dramatize the richness of physical life.
▪ Stories of even the most important events often depended on the post.
▪ The prison hero is the one who most openly shows anger and contempt for the staff.
▪ Women have long been both the greatest seekers of psy services and the group most heavily victimized by them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Most

More \More\, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Most (m[=o]st).] [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS. m[=a]ra, and (as neut. and adv.) m[=a]; akin to D. meer, OS. m[=e]r, G. mehr, OHG. m[=e]ro, m[=e]r, Icel. meiri, meirr, Dan. meere, meer, Sw. mera, mer, Goth. maiza, a., mais, adv., and perh. to L. major greater, compar. of magnus great, and magis, adv., more. [root]103. Cf. Most, uch, Major.]

  1. Greater; superior; increased; as: (a) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.

    He gat more money.
    --Chaucer.

    If we procure not to ourselves more woe.
    --Milton.

    Note: More, in this sense, was formerly used in connection with some other qualifying word, -- a, the, this, their, etc., -- which now requires the substitution of greater, further, or the like, for more.

    Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight.
    --Spenser.

    The more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
    --Acts xix. 3

  2. Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
    --Shak. (b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.

    The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
    --Ex. i. 9.

    2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.

    With open arms received one poet more.
    --Pope.

Most

Much \Much\ (m[u^]ch), a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by More (m[=o]r), and Most (m[=o]st), from another root.] [OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr. me`gas, fem. mega`lh, great, and Icel. mj["o]k, adv., much.

  1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

    Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in.
    --Deut. xxviii. 38.

  2. Many in number. [Archaic]

    Edom came out against him with much people.
    --Num. xx. 20.

  3. High in rank or position. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

Most

Most \Most\ (m[=o]st), a., superl. of More. [OE. most, mast, mest, AS. m[=ae]st; akin to D. meest, OS. m[=e]st, G. meist, Icel. mestr, Goth. maists; a superl. corresponding to E. more. [root]103. See More, a.]

  1. Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all. ``Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness.''
    --Prov. xx. 6.

    The cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.
    --Matt. xi. 20.

  2. Greatest in degree; as, he has the most need of it. ``In the moste pride.''
    --Chaucer.

  3. Highest in rank; greatest. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Note: Most is used as a noun, the words part, portion, quantity, etc., being omitted, and has the following meanings:

    1. The greatest value, number, or part; preponderating portion; highest or chief part.

    2. The utmost; greatest possible amount, degree, or result; especially in the phrases to make the most of, at the most, at most.

      A quarter of a year or some months at the most.
      --Bacon.

      A covetous man makes the most of what he has.
      --L'Estrange.

      For the most part, in reference to the larger part of a thing, or to the majority of the persons, instances, or things referred to; as, human beings, for the most part, are superstitious; the view, for the most part, was pleasing.

      Most an end, generally. See An end, under End, n. [Obs.] ``She sleeps most an end.''
      --Massinger.

Most

Most \Most\, adv. [AS. m[=ae]st. See Most, a.] In the greatest or highest degree.

Those nearest to this king, and most his favorites, were courtiers and prelates.
--Milton.

Note: Placed before an adjective or adverb, most is used to form the superlative degree, being equivalent to the termination -est; as, most vile, most wicked; most illustrious; most rapidly. Formerly, and until after the Elizabethan period of our literature, the use of the double superlative was common. See More, adv.

The most unkindest cut of all.
--Shak.

The most straitest sect of our religion.
--Acts xxvi. 5.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
most

Old English mast "greatest number, amount, extent," earlier mæst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz (cognates: Old Saxon mest, Old Frisian mast, Old Norse mestr, Dutch meest, German meist, Gothic maists "most"), superlative form of Proto-Germanic *maiz, root of Old English ma, mara (see more). Used in Old English as superlative of micel "great, large" (see mickle). Vowel influenced by more. Original sense of "greatest" survives in phrase for the most part (c.1400). Slang meaning "the best, extremely good" is attested from 1953. Also used as an adverb in Old English. Phrase make the most of (something) is by 1520s. Related: Mostly. Double superlative mostest is 1885, from U.S. Southern and Black English.

Wiktionary
most

adv. superlative form of many. det. 1 superlative form of much. 2 superlative form of many. n. 1 (context uncountable English) The greatest amount. 2 (context countable English) A record-setting amount.

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WordNet
most

  1. adj. (superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number; "who has the most apples?"; "most people like eggs"; "most fishes have fins" [syn: most(a)] [ant: fewest(a)]

  2. the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree; "made the most money he could"; "what attracts the most attention?"; "made the most of a bad deal" [syn: most(a)] [ant: least(a)]

most

  1. adv. used to form the superlative; "the king cobra is the most dangerous snake" [syn: to the highest degree] [ant: least]

  2. very; "a most welcome relief"

  3. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for `almost'; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees" [syn: about, just about, almost, all but, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh]

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Wikipedia
MOST

MOST may refer to:

Most (2003 film)

Most (re-titled The Bridge in some countries) is a 2003 Czech film directed by Bobby Garabedian and written and produced by American actor William Zabka. The music score was created by John Debney ( Passion of the Christ).

Most (Unix)

most is a terminal pager program on Unix, OpenVMS, Windows and Unix-like systems used to view (but not change) the contents of a text file one screen at a time. Programs of this sort are called pagers. It is similar to [[more (command)|more]], but has the extended capability of allowing both forward and backward navigation through the file. Unlike most Unix pagers, most can scroll left and right and supports multiple windows.

MOST (satellite)

The Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars telescope, better known simply as MOST, is Canada's first space telescope. Up until nearly 10 years after its launch it was also the smallest space telescope in orbit (for which its creators nicknamed it the “Humble Space Telescope”, in reference to one of the largest, the Hubble). MOST is the first spacecraft dedicated to the study of asteroseismology, subsequently followed by the now-completed COROT and Kepler missions. It was also the first Canadian science satellite launched since ISIS II, 32 years previously.

Most (Most District)

Most (; , , Romani: Mosti) is the capital city of the Most District, situated between the Central Bohemian Uplands and the Ore Mountains, approximately northwest of Prague along the Bílina River and southwest of Ústí nad Labem.

The name Most means "bridge" in Czech. The town, which was named after the system of bridges that crossed the swamps in this area in the 10th century, is now mostly known for its heavy industry. The German name for Most is Brüx (derived from the German word for "bridge", Brücke).

Most lies at the heart of the northern Bohemian lignite-mining region and serves as an important industrial railway junction. During the latter half of the 20th century, Most was considered to be one of the most polluted Coal mining towns in communist Czechoslovakia. Most's other industries includes textile, ceramics, steel, and chemicals.

Foreign mining operations continue to operate in the area in the 21st century. Some surrounding villages are planned to be abandoned due to surface mining. However environmental conditions have improved in recent years around Most, in particular the growing of apples and grape vines has developed.

Most (surname)

Most is a surname. Some notable people with the surname include:

  • Deforrest Most (1917-2006), American gymnast
  • Don Most (born 1953), American actor
  • Doug Most (born 1968), editor of The Boston Globe Magazine
  • Glenn W. Most (born 1952), American classicist and comparatist
  • Jeff Most (born 1960), American film producer
  • Johann Most (1846–1906), German-American anarchist and orator
  • Johnny Most (1923–1993), American sports announcer
  • Mickie Most (1938–2003), English record producer
  • Sam Most (born 1930), Los Angeles-based jazz flautist and tenor saxophonist
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Usage examples of "most".

Outside, the happy and contented citizens of the accommodating world of New Riviera went about their daily concerns, unaware that in an ordinary hotel room not far from where they were walking and talking, a most unusual quartet was calmly discussing Armageddon.

We shall, then, proceed at once to discuss their proper accommodation, in the cheapest and most familiar method with which we are acquainted.

The fame of Gratian, before he had accomplished the twentieth year of his age, was equal to that of the most celebrated princes.

His brother, Thrasimund, was the greatest and most accomplished of the Vandal kings, whom he excelled in beauty, prudence, and magnanimity of soul.

Here Masonry pauses, and leaves its Initiates to carry out and develop these great Truths in such manner as to each may seem most accordant with reason, philosophy, truth, and his religious faith.

Mary Harris, for example, found her work as a senior accountant absorbing, part of the reason she was one of the most dedicated accounting employees at her firm.

Fastow had picked up most of those responsibilities, with Causey taking the accounting role.

Then, thanks to mark-to-market accounting, most of that could be booked as income.

Indeed, the best accredited and most popular couples would take a start away from their companions and acquaintances, and ride ten miles or so to be married privately, and so escape all ceremony.

Routes into it while avoiding magnetic turbulence, and most importantly, the accretion disk.

They accepted the most arbitrary and simple explanations of their accumulated net of relationships, and were oblivious even to fundamental changes in that net.

A daily paper that had dealt faithfully with this accumulating danger would quite as naturally and necessarily have found its distribution impeded, have found itself vigorously outdone by more richly endowed competitors, able because of their wealth to buy up all the most attractive features, able to outdo it in every way with the common reader.

Most important, it required that a new equilibrium be established between the processes of capitalist accumulation and the structures of power.

Was it because the people themselves, through their individual accumulative system, created conditions whereby only the most abject and debased mortals could survive?

Most of the masses, whose projectors were fed by comparatively few accumulator cells, darted away entire with a stupendous acceleration.