No other poster, clock, or picture could be placed higher on the wall than the president's picture.

Here, on the Kentian mantel, the crowd of Chinese vases and mandarins are satirically rendered as hideous little monstrosities, and the Rococo wall clock is a jumble of leafy branches.

To keep his clock in synch, each week the owner compares the time on his wall clock to a more accurate clock ( a phase comparison ), and he resets his clock.

Left alone, the wall clock will continue to diverge from the reference clock at the same few seconds per hour rate.

When the owner compared his wall clock's time to the reference time, he noticed that his clock was too fast.

LEDs require significant power, and as a result, the clock had to be plugged in to a wall outlet.

Being plugged into the wall is obviously a major drawback, but had one advantage: the timebase for the clock was driven off of a rectified version of 60 cycle AC current.

A large clock face on the external east-facing wall has only an hour hand since Jefferson thought this was accurate enough for outdoor laborers.

Accounting for and paying for machine usage moved on from checking the wall clock to automatic logging by the computer.

To use, the pendulum was hung from a bracket on a wall, with the knife blade pivots supported on two small horizontal agate plates, in front of a precision pendulum clock to time the period.

His antique wall clock is still a feature in the current bank building.

When Letterman jokingly said he wanted more, Wahoo sent him a ' 76 Ford Pinto with a sofa attached to the hood, a wall clock made of cow droppings, and two of the town's teenagers, brothers Jeff and Josh Price.

By his own account he had explored the gardens, scaling the kitchen garden wall in the process, and set the staff to work, then ate breakfast with the housekeeper and met his future wife, Sarah Bown, the housekeeper's niece, as he later put it, completing his first morning's work before nine o ' clock.

Upon looking at a wall clock she notices the bus is late.

She begins to experience details from her dream: she hears the loud ticking of a clock on the wall, bumps into a woman carrying a vase-which falls to the floor and shatters-and hears loud footsteps.

In some applications ' wall clock ' time is used, in others the time encoded is a notional time.

Every business building was required to have an official picture of him hanging on the wall, and no poster, clock or picture could be higher than his portrait.

Several of Burden's other performance pieces were considered somewhat controversial at the time: another " danger piece " was Doomed ( 1975 ), in which Burden lay motionless in a gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago under a 5 ' x 8 ' slanted sheet of glass near a running wall clock.

The controls to this device are inside an old fashioned cuckoo clock that hangs on the wall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

hot-colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch, where we passed on our way to the pump with the half-gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it.

The carved statues of the frieze against the low wall are for the most part headless, but their exquisitely graceful nude and draped torsos and the kneeling Atlantes are well preserved in their perfect proportion.

The only hope for West Berlin lies in a compromise which will bring down the wall and reunite the city.

He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

Mortar is poured between this bracing and the 4-inch blocks on edge to complete the wall thickness for radiation shielding.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

How did one attach anything to a stone wall, for that matter??

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

Hoag stretched his left hand to the wall and fumbled for the switch: evil flourishes in the dark.

`` Take a ride on this one '', Brooks Robinson greeted Hansen as the Bird third sacker grabbed a bat, headed for the plate and bounced a third-inning two-run double off the left-centerfield wall tonight.

What's happening in textiles can be handwriting on the wall for other lines having difficulty competing with imports from low-wage countries.

People stand at the wall giving vent to their feelings, weeping, pounding it with their fists, pleading for loved ones.

Sameness for the Old Man was framed in by a wall of ginkgo trees which divided these quarters from the city.

An old man, sitting against the wall of a cottage and waiting for the sun to find him, gave her a more than reflective look as she passed, the sap still plainly rising in his branches.

Graeme Base also created a series of riddles relating to hidden objects within each of the illustrations written especially for the wall frieze.

After the sun sets and the temperature drops, the warm wall will then continue to transfer heat to the interior for several hours due to the time lag effect.

Within the last courses of brick, bond beams are laid across the top of the bricks to provide a horizontal bearing plate for the roof to distribute the weight more evenly along the wall.

A remarkable early tenth-century document, known as the Burghal Hidage, provides a formula for determining how many men were needed to garrison a borough, based on one man for every of wall.

The landowners attached to Wallingford, for example, were responsible for producing and feeding 2, 400 men, the number sufficient for maintaining of wall.

This wall would serve as the main defense for the acropolis until the 5th century.