"Measuring America" begins at the Point of Beginning, the name designated in 1785 for a stretch of border between Pennsylvania and the uncharted Ohio territory to the west.
The drunken chickens make as good a point of beginning as any for my recollections of Madame Goriaut, who owned the farm.
Luna sent a ship back to Veracruz, their point of beginning, to inform the viceroy that the expedition had safely arrived.
Even though he speaks almost no Georgian — the correct pronunciation of Tbilisi still eludes him — he makes a point of beginning and ending interviews with a Georgian phrase or two.
Many individual farmers did get land; on the other hand, there was John Cleves Symmes, who persuaded the Continental Congress to sell him a million acres west of the Point of Beginning for $82,000.
For figures such as Haga Yaichi (1867-1927) and Muraoka Tsunetsugu (1884-1946) Norinaga's work marked the point of beginning for the modern humanistic study of the nation, a study in which they were involved as professors of "National Literature" and "Intellectual History".
I couldn't see the point of beginning anything.
To this end, the Commission made a point of beginning the process by listening to the lived experiences and aspirations of those in our communities who are closest to our children.
Now that you know how to read the notations, you can find the exact starting point on the survey by looking for a POB for point of beginning Now that you know how to read the notations, you can find the exact starting point on the survey by looking for a POB for point of beginning or a COM meaning commence at.
Median time point for beginning of MV was at day 3 (range 1 8).
When such a series of distances and angles returns to its point of beginning or begins and ends at stations of superior (more accurate) control, it can be checked and the small errors of measurement adjusted for mathematical consistency.
