In literature:
In 1893 the contract service had been reduced by the discontinuance of three of the routes.
"Manual of Ship Subsidies" by Edwin M. Bacon
Soon the correspondence from New York, previously written by Bancroft Davis, and extremely favourable to the Northern cause, was discontinued.
"Great Britain and the American Civil War" by Ephraim Douglass Adams
Of late years the navigation of the Amoor has discontinued the fair of Pul.
"Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life" by Thomas Wallace Knox
He discontinued his ordinary employments, and spent some hours in sorting and destroying numbers of papers and documents.
"The Mississippi Bubble" by Emerson Hough
He kept the office until it was discontinued, or was removed to Petersburg.
"The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln" by Francis Fisher Browne
At any rate, it was in consequence of his mishap that the Spartans discontinued the habit of carrying staffs when they met in council.
"Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)" by Plutarch
Mr. Britling discontinued writing and turned these papers over and mused.
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" by H. G. Wells
The discontinuance of Keith's visits had been so sudden that Lois had felt it all the more.
"Gordon Keith" by Thomas Nelson Page
The Monroe Doctrine as a part of American foreign policy should be discontinued.
"Elements of Debating" by Leverett S. Lyon
The steps discontinued at their door, and a key was thrust into the lock.
"Willis the Pilot" by Johanna Spyri
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In poetry:
Gordon, mounted, loq.
Ho ! you chap of grit and sinew,
Smoking in your pit,
Why thus labour discontinue ?
Why your forehead knit ?
"The Patrol And The Gold-Digger" by Adam Lindsay Gordon
'Alas, dear friend, that, all my days,
Hast poured from that syringa thicket
The quaintly discontinuous lays
To which I hold a season-ticket.
"The Nightingale In The Study" by James Russell Lowell
And here are peaches with their ruddy cheeks
And ripe transparency. Here nectarines bloom,
All mottled as with discontinuous streaks.
And spread a fruity fragrance through the room.
"A Basket of Summer Fruit" by Charles Harpur
The rustling of the silk is discontinued,
Dust drifts over the court-yard,
There is no sound of foot-fall, and the leaves
Scurry into heaps and lie still,
And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them:
"Liu Ch'e" by Ezra Pound
In news:
Sam Querrey has won three of the last four titles at the ATP event in Los Angeles, which will be discontinued .
Farmers Classic tournament at UCLA discontinued .
Farmers Classic men's tennis tournament at UCLA discontinued .
LOS ANGELES — The Farmers Classic men's tennis tournament at UCLA has been discontinued , and its ATP sanction has been sold to a group in Bogota, Colombia.
With Big Ten money, Maryland's discontinued varsity teams could be reinstated.
A communication breakdown seems to be the culprit: Many medical offices fail to notify pharmacies when a physician discontinues a patient's meds.
How to find discontinued make-up.
Where to Find Your Favorite Discontinued Cosmetic Product.
Dave Letterman's Top 10 List Of Discontinued Guy Fieri Menu Items.
The Washington Daily News has discontinued the weekly food column, "Southern cooking at its best," by Eddie Browning.
The Dr Pepper Snapple group says it will discontinue its 7UP Antioxidant drink.
The Dr Pepper Snapple group says it will discontinue its 7UP Antioxidant drink following a consumer group lawsuit.
Mountain West TV network will be discontinued .
To Bring Back Discontinued Shades Based on Your Votes.
Hewlett Packard announced that it was discontinuing all of its WebOS devices last Thursday, while simultaneously dropping the price of its TouchPad tablet to $99.
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In science:
We also find, in agreement with analytical results, that the transition is continuous as long as p ≤ 1/4 and then it becomes discontinuous in the SAT probability.
Phase coexistence and finite-size scaling in random combinatorial problems
The one we present here seems to be the simplest and also the most robust, in the sense it can be safely used when the transition is both continuous (p ≤ 0.25) and discontinuous (p > 0.25).
Phase coexistence and finite-size scaling in random combinatorial problems
Aizenman, M., Chayes, J.T., Chayes, L., and Newman, C.M. (1988) Discontinuity of the magnetization in one-dimensional 1/|x − y |2 Ising and Potts models, J.
Coupling and Bernoullicity in random-cluster and Potts models
At the transition, the average component size jumps discontinuously but remains finite.
Are randomly grown graphs really random?
Discontinuous behavior of g ′ (1) for the growing graph.
Are randomly grown graphs really random?
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