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  • Usu. you say ‘to the .05 significance level’, or whatever phrase that discipline uses medicine commonly explicitly rejects results at certain levels in their abstracts.

    National Post Today « Climate Audit 2006

  • Hofmann upon the Sixth Book of Galen, “De Usu partium,”

    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 2005

  • Biratori, Usu, and Lebunge, that a later Japanese conqueror carried away the books in which the arts were written, and that since his time the arts themselves have been lost, and the Ainos have fallen into their present condition!

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Maripu, the ocean always on the left and wooded ranges on the right, and in front an apparent bar to farther progress in the volcano of Usu-taki, an imposing mountain, rising abruptly to a height of nearly 3000 feet, I should think.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • They appear to have certain rude ideas of metempsychosis, as is evidenced by the Usu prayer to the bear and certain rude traditions; but whether these are indigenous, or have arisen by contact with Buddhism at a later period, it is impossible to say.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • I left Usu sleeping in the loveliness of an autumn noon with great regret.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Wooded, rocky knolls, with Aino huts, the vermilion peaks of the volcano of Usu-taki redder than ever in the sinking sun, a few

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • I sat on a rock by the bay till the last pink glow faded from Usu-taki and the last lemon stain from the still water; and a beautiful crescent, which hung over the wooded hill, had set, and the heavens blazed with stars:

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • If other officials entrusted with Aino concerns treat the Ainos as fraternally as those of Usu and Lebunge, there is not much to lament.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • While many depend on Usu to attract tourists to the hot springs it feeds, it took years for the local economy to recover the last time the volcano erupted.

    CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Evacuees Make Brief Visit to Their Homes in Wake of Japan's Mount Usu Eruption - April 2, 2000 2000

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