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In some games that allow pegging, a player who is pegged for three outs is forced to stand facing the wall with his hands on the wall, in a position similar to a police ' pat-down ' stance often referred to as " Bottoms Up ".

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As they move through the college years our young men and women are `` socialized '' into a broadly similar culture, at the level of personal behavior.
`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.
There is the free intra-city `` rent it here, leave it there '' service, as an example, the free delivery and collection at the airport, dockside or your hotel, luggage racks, touring documents and information and other similar services.
Observations similar to these can be made at each point of Aj.
A similar case arose at the Bowers ranch in Butte County, and the Superior Court of that county issued similar restraining orders.
The silicate fractions of stony meteorites show gallium / germanium ratios similar to those of tektites because they too have undergone melting at some point in their histories.
While population at Fort Garry increased rapidly, from 2,417 in 1831 to 4,369 in 1840, economic opportunities did not increase at a similar rate.
In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.
New Mexico's biggest is at Ruidoso Oct. 7, 8, while Alamogordo and Cloudcroft cooperate in similar trips Oct. 1.
The alkali metals are a group of chemical elements in the periodic table with very similar properties: they are all shiny, soft, silvery, highly reactive metals at standard temperature and pressure and readily lose their outermost electron to form cations with charge + 1.
Another problem was that the gradual identification of more and more chemically similar and indistinguishable lanthanides, which were of an uncertain number, led to inconsistency and uncertainty in the numbering of all elements at least from lutetium ( element 71 ) onwards ( hafnium was not known at this time ).
Two other groups have similar inflorescences but a superior ovary, and have at times been put into separate families: the Agapanthaceae and the Alliaceae.
Proposed subgroups are difficult to recognise, having similar ' lily-like ' flowers, with the result that some members of the group have been included in different subgroups at different times.
The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.
Holtorf ’ s description of the archaeologist as a detective is very similar to Christie ’ s Poirot who is hugely observant and is very careful to look at the small details as they often impart the most information.
This is a serious problem with Algorithm I and is due to catastrophic cancellation in the subtraction of two similar numbers at the final stage of the algorithm.
The Agriculturalists supported the fixing of prices, in which all similar goods, regardless of differences in quality and demand, are set at exactly the same, unchanging price.
These trees differ from the birches ( Betula, the other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones.
In order to achieve this, they removed themselves from the economy as much as possible and lived independently ; unlike a similar project named Brook Farm, the participants at Fruitlands avoided interaction with local communities.
Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions, the Compromise of 1850, to allow admission while addressing concerns of both sides of the issue ; at the same time Johnson introduced a similar more streamlined version of compromise in the House.
Initially, she encountered similar problems as she had experienced at Blake Hall.

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These conjugates Af had much less nonspecific staining than the previous conjugate ( with 50 mg FITC per gram of globulin ) while the specific staining was similar in both cases.
About half of the 50 houses on this road had prostitutes advertising themselves in the windows, similar to Amsterdam.
* EN 60335-2-50 Household and similar electrical appliances – Safety – Part 2. 50: Particular requirements for commercial electric bains-marie ( 73 / 23 / EEC Low Voltage Directive )
In its 1937 invasion of China, Japan employed some 50, 000 bicycle troops, and similar forces were instrumental in Japan's march or " roll " through Malaysia in World War II.
The lights were like large pylons towering 50 metres over the ground and were similar in appearance to those at the WACA.
Compression ratios are around 50 – 60 % of original size, similar to those for generic lossless data compression.
A 16-MHz 486 therefore has a performance similar to a 33-MHz 386, and the older design has to reach 50 MHz to be comparable with a 25-MHz 486 part.
While most mammals have a very similar physiology, LD < sub > 50 </ sub > results may or may not be directly relevant to humans.
As for the 50 Tg case involving one third of current nuclear arsenals, they said that the simulation " produced climate responses very similar to those for the 150 Tg case, but with about half the amplitude ," but that " the time scale of response is about the same.
In a similar vein, Rabbi Akiva ( ca. 50 – ca. 135CE ), is said to have learned a new law from every et ( את ) in the Torah ( Talmud, tractate Pesachim 22b ); the word et is meaningless by itself, and serves only to mark the direct object.
Each mature Volvox colony is composed of numerous flagellate cells similar to Chlamydomonas, up to 50, 000 in total, and embedded in the surface of a hollow sphere or coenobium containing an extracellular matrix made of a gelatinous glycoprotein.
Lengths with order of magnitude 1e17m: yellow Vernal Point arrow traces hundred light year radius circle with smaller ten light year circle at right ; globular cluster Messier 5 in background ; 12 light year radius Orion Nebula middle right ; 50 light year wide view of the Carina Nebula bottom left ; Pleiades cluster and Bubble nebula with similar diameters each around 10 light years bottom right ; grey arrows show distances from Sun to stars Aldebaran ( 65 light years ) and Vega ( 25 light years ).
The reason is that while Fry may have obtained 50 % of his SNPs from his father, his grandmother might have been similar enough to him ( his grandfather ) that his father is 62. 5 % related to him.
* Myod — Traditional Russian mead, historically available in three major varieties: aged mead (" мёд ставленный ") — a mixture of honey and water and / or berry juices, subject to a very slow ( 12 – 50 years ) anaerobic fermentation in airtight vessels in a process similar to the traditional balsamic vinegar, creating a rich, complex and high-priced product ; drinking mead (" мёд питный ") — a kind of honey wine made from diluted honey by traditional fermentation ; and boiled mead (" мёд варёный ") — a drink closer to beer, brewed from boiled wort of diluted honey and herbs, very similar to modern medovukha.
Guns are similar to rotors, except that they generally operate at very high pressures of 40 to 130 lbf / in² ( 275 to 900 kPa ) and flows of 50 to 1200 US gal / min ( 3 to 76 L / s ), usually with nozzle diameters in the range of 0. 5 to 1. 9 inches ( 10 to 50 mm ).
Malden's proposal was bold, as film festivals, critics associations, and the American Film Institute, had already refused to bestow similar honors because of Kazan's testimony given nearly 50 years earlier.
Wearing his traditional porkpie hat, he travelled from one end of Canada to the other on a motorized handcar, performing gags similar to those in films he made 50 years before.
The events within the men's and women's programmes are either identical or have a similar equivalent, with the sole exception being that men contest the 50 km race walk.
In 2008, Carey was named as Australian Football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, and placed third in a similar list put together by a panel of football legends in The Age newspaper the same year.
Malmstrom AFB had 150 of the Minuteman I and about five years later added 50 of the Minuteman II similar to those installed at Grand Forks AFB, ND.
In another finding, thirty-three of the forty sibling pairs tested were found to have similar alleles in the distal region of Xq28, which was significantly higher than the expected rates of 50 % for fraternal brothers.
The one at 43 μm is much weaker than the one at 60 μm, which means the water ice, is located in the outer parts of the disk at temperatures below 50 K. There is also another broad ice feature between 87 and 90 μm, which is very similar to the one in NGC 6302 ( the Bug or Butterfly nebula in Scorpius ).

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