Sentences with phrase «poring over notes»

Back in England, Darwin pored over his notes and studied the birds, beetles, and fossils — including an extinct giant ground sloth of the genus Megatherium — that he had gathered on his voyage.

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The writer of any such notes was also aware of himself as author of words which his successors would read; in Luther's case these notes have been reprinted and are now pored over by twentieth - century theologians, as part of the Weimar edition of Luther's Collected Works.

It was slightly before noon and horse - players in the paddock area at Tropical Park assumed the postures of their trade — they threw back their heads like turkeys in a rainstorm and drank in the sun and dreamily contemplated nothing at all, or they shaded their eyes and pored over agate type in the Racing Form's columns and scrawled notes to themselves in the margins.

The team pored over thousands of the specimens, noting when different species had lived based on the geological layer from which they were collected and assessing the shapes and sizes of more than 6,000 individuals.

To identify the animal that left behind a fossil, paleontologists pore over the bone, noting each bump, groove and hole, measuring the length of a tibia bone or counting the digits on a forelimb.

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While poring over cases associated with violent crime at the bureau, Mitchell also noted «a trend in that this violence was taking place in communities of color and poor white communities,» he says.

Or have you forgotten your night vigils, when you were poring over numerous books and notes?

Like so many films consumed with the minutiae of daily journalism, «Spotlight» is a magnificently nerdy process movie — a tour de force of filing - cabinet cinema, made with absolute assurance that we'll be held by scene after scene of people talking, taking notes, following tips, hounding sources, poring over records, filling out spreadsheets, and having one door after another slammed in their faces.

Poring over school records, he noted a pattern of significantly higher scores on tests of academic achievement and cognitive ability, including IQ tests, up to four years after the program's end.

«As someone who enjoys improv quilting, I found myself poring over Sherri's book day after day, quickly jotting down notes and techniques to try with my next project.»

I'm pretty sure Wegener didn't pore over other geologist's field notes and complain about their penmanship wrecking his thought process — he went out and did something about it.

The same article in the local newspaper quoted ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods praising employees who «pored over technical blueprints» of the facilities «while floodwaters poured through their kitchens» at home, and noted that while many workers did all they could to provide expert help from their homes, many others had been stranded at work and forced to set up temporary living quarters.

After poring over your screen and taking note of any defective pixels you find, check it against your manufacturer's guidelines.