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A large volume of railroad freight moves through Memphis, because of its two heavy-duty Mississippi River railroad crossings, which carry several major east-west railroad freight lines, and also because of the major north-south railroad lines through Memphis which connect with such major cities as Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Mobile, and Birmingham.
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Writing in a large volume on the nude in painting and sculptures, titled The Nude: A Study In Ideal Form, Kenneth Clark declares: `` The human body, as a nucleus, is rich in associations.
Its small 37 mm gun and light armor was seen as a flaw, but was produced in such a large volume and, coupled with its off-road capability, that this shortcoming was largely overlooked.
Colour can range from deep gold to light amber with a large, creamy, persistent white head, and moderate to moderately high carbonation, while alcohol content ranges from 6. 3 % to 7. 4 % by volume.
These usually are not high-value coins, but the interest is in collecting a large volume of them either for the sake of the challenge, as a store of value, or in the hope that the intrinsic metal value will increase.
Sometimes, a large volume of gas is liberated in combustion besides the production of heat and light.
However, while a large volume of economic research has been done to define the relationship between central bank independence and economic performance, the results are ambiguous.
Their advantages include a large potential storage volume and relatively common occurrence reducing the distance over which CO < sub > 2 </ sub > has to be transported.
In October 2007, the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin received a 10-year, $ 38 million subcontract to conduct the first intensively monitored, long-term project in the United States studying the feasibility of injecting a large volume of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > for underground storage.
Derleth published five more volumes of Smith's prose and two of his verse, and at his death in 1971 had a large volume of Smith's poems in press.
However, as it gains in volume from the very numerous tributary streams, large and small, that it receives en route, its velocity increases, and in the wet season reaches, even in certain stretches.
It became known as The Strawberry Line because of the large volume of locally-grown strawberries that it carried.
The proportion of cell volume that is cytosol varies: for example while this compartment forms the bulk of cell structure in bacteria, in plant cells the main compartment is the large central vacuole.
A call centre or call center is a centralised office used for the purpose of receiving or transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone.
They are also used as large volume ionizing radiation detectors and as photodetectors.
As there are many units of mass and volume covering many different magnitudes there are a large number of units for mass density in use.
Hardware database accelerators, connected to one or more servers via a high-speed channel, are also used in large volume transaction processing environments.
In the latter cases, the high overall volume due to other amplifiers and instruments may lead to acoustic feedback, a problem exacerbated by the bass's large surface area and interior volume.
This produced more economical engines with earlier four-cylinder designs rated at 40 horsepower ( 30 kW ) and six-cylinder designs rated as low as 80 horsepower ( 60 kW ), compared with the large volume V-8 American engines with power ratings in the range from 250 to 350 hp, some even over 400hp.
* Macropinocytosis, which usually occurs from highly ruffled regions of the plasma membrane, is the invagination of the cell membrane to form a pocket, which then pinches off into the cell to form a vesicle ( 0. 5 – 5 µm in diameter ) filled with a large volume of extracellular fluid and molecules within it ( equivalent to ~ 100 CCVs ).
Emulsifiers are not effective at extinguishing large fires involving bulk / deep liquid fuels, because the amount of agent needed for extinguishment is a function of the volume of the fuel, whereas agents such as aqueous film-forming foam ( AFFF ) need cover only the surface of the fuel to achieve vapor mitigation.
The hippocampus, which contains a large volume of just such glutamatergic neurons ( and NMDA receptors, which are permeable to Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > entry after binding of both glutamate and glycine ), is especially vulnerable to epileptic seizure, subsequent spread of excitation, and possible neuronal death.
Cold stores provide large volume, long-term storage for strategic food stocks held in case of national emergency in many countries.
These obstacles are slowly being overcome, with international ( in-and outgoing ) and transit ( through ) traffic being responsible for a large part of the recent uptake in rail freight volume.
Of these, El Mirador, Tikal, Nakbé, Tintal, Xulnal and Wakná are the largest in the Maya world, Such size was manifested not only in the extent of the site, but also in the volume or monumentality, especially in the construction of immense platforms to support large temples.
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Until internal combustion became cheap, he had to be near a railroad siding and a trolley line or an existing large community of lower-class homes.
A large log being placed on a railroad car at Batottan, British North Borneo in 1926
The unusually large flanges on the steel wheels guide the bogie through standard railroad switches, and in addition keep the train from derailing in case the tires deflate.
The guano diggers constructed a unique railroad on Malden Island, with cars powered by large sails.
While the results overall have been impressive, many large state-owned industrial enterprises, particularly the railroad, mining, steel, and defense sectors, have remained resistant to change and the downsizing required to survive in a market-based economy.
Developed almost entirely as a rail-serviced facility, the port had large areas of interlacing railroad tracks that were mostly not flush with surrounding surfaces, thereby greatly restricting vehicular movement.
" Lorry " has a more uncertain origin, but probably has its roots in the railroad industry, where the word is known to have been used in 1838 to refer to a type of truck ( a freight car as in British usage, not a bogie as in the American ), specifically a large flat wagon.
The Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge is a large swing bridge that dates back to 1910 and is still in use today by automobiles and railroad trains, connecting Brownsville, Texas with Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of Mozambique to large private companies, like the Mozambique Company, the Zambezia Company and the Niassa Company, controlled and financed mostly by the British, which established, with the Portuguese, railroad lines to neighbouring countries.
McLean came up ( independently of the events in Canada ) with using large containers that were never opened in transit between shipper and consignee and that were transferable on an intermodal basis, among trucks, ships and railroad cars.
Hill avoided this by investing a large portion of the railroad's profit back into the railroad itself — and charged those investments to operating expense.
The amount of land in native hands rapidly depleted from some to a small by 1900, as the remainder of the land once allotted to appointed natives was declared surplus and sold to non-native settlers as well as railroad and other large corporations, and was also converted into federal parks and military compounds.
Railroads began to be built, and both the railroad companies and the mining companies began to hire large numbers of laborers.
Fogel hypothesizes that, in the absence of the railroad, America ’ s large canal system would have been expanded and its roads would have been improved through pavement ; both of these improvements would take away from the social impact of the railroad.
North Platte is a railroad town ; Union Pacific Railroad's large Bailey Yard is located within the city.
Between 1902 and 1912 four large office buildings were constructed at the intersection of 20th Street, the central north – south spine of the city, and 1st Avenue North, which connected the warehouses and industrial facilities stretching along the east – west railroad corridor.
One of the strikes was a mining strike in Clay County, and the other was a railroad workers ' strike in Logansport ; both groups were unhappy with large wage cuts.
With twenty-five freight trains a day, Mecklenburg is a freight railroad transportation center, largely due to its place on the NS main line between Washington and Atlanta and the large volumes of freight moving in and out of the county via truck.
The railroad wanted a more modern name, and the large stands of pine trees in the area inspired the new name Pineville.
It has also given its name to the Vauxhall Parliamentary Constituency, which also includes parts of Brixton and Clapham, and to the Vauxhall Motors car manufacturer, which originated in the area, as well as to the Russian word for a large railroad station ( see below ).
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