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Every hour, the minute mechanism was reset ( and every day the hour mechanism ), the clock was accurate within one minute only.
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Every evening, about an hour and a quarter, known as Quiet Hour, is set aside during which boys are expected to study or prepare work for their teachers if not otherwise engaged.
He credited some of his success to his snowmobiling days: " Every winter, you would reckon on three or four big spills — and I'm talking about being thrown on to the ice at 100 miles per hour.
Every hour that Napoleon could have attacked earlier as he did, would have been is his favour, but the French could not attack in the morning for the simple reason that the entire army had not yet taken its battle positions.
Every hour, the capitalist receives $ 40 worth of work and only pays the worker $ 10, capturing the remaining $ 30 as gross revenue.
* In The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut writes " Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules -- and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Every hour in one's life is directed by " The Table ," a precursor to Nineteen Eighty-Four's telescreen.
Every year on 25 November a group of Cuban youths sets out from Tuxpan aboard a replica of the Granma to re-trace hour by hour the voyage of the original Granma to its landing spot at Playa Las Coloradas a week later.
The main entrance to the hall contains a statue of Sun Yat-sen. Every hour, there is a formal changing of the guards, which is a popular tourist attraction.
Every hour or so, a 10 – 20 minute ' word war ' is held in which the entire room falls almost completely silent with concentration, save for the sound of keystrokes.
Every semester, the student union organises a " 24 hour lecture ", in which many researchers of the university present interesting topics in short lectures starting at 6 pm on a Friday, and ending at 6 pm on the following Saturday.
Every day, evening prayer ( sa ) takes place in every village around dusk before the evening meal and lasts about half an hour.
Every hour, a timekeeper emerges from the upper deck of the clock to strike a gong as many times as it is the hours of the day.
Every year the club enters at least one team in the annual Southport 24 hour race hosted by West Lancashire Yacht Club where it has won the event in 1970, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004, 2005 and 2007.
Every Wednesday night at midnight, Ladd devotes an hour to Headsets, which combines music with a slightly more " sonic " quality ( designed to be listened to in headphones, or with no background noise interfering ), spoken-word poetry, and audio clips from movies & TV.
Every Friday late night / Saturday morning a two hour programme is broadcast, usually between the hours of 1 am and 3 am UK-time ( the programme was previously broadcast between Saturday late night / Sunday morning 1 am and 3 am, and before that, between 2 am and 4 am and originally midnight and 2 am ).
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Advertising for the film ( pictured at right ) boasted of the extravagant expense incurred in presenting the spectacle :" Actual Sinking of an Ocean Liner. Two Battleships Sunk by United States Navy .$ 18, 000 Used for Ammunition in One Battle. 40, 000 People Employed. 10, 000 Horses in Thrilling Cavalry Charges. 40 Aeroplanes in Great Air Battle. Every Death-dealing Device Known to Modern War in Operation. One Year in the Making. Cost $ 1, 000, 000. 00. Entire Cities Built and Destroyed. An Awe-inspiring Spectacle that one minute makes your blood run cold and another thrills you with its touches of human gentleness. The Story of the Greatest Love of the Ages —- the Love of Humanity.
Every five minutes ( every minute for Divas matches ), one of the four participants within a chamber is released into the ongoing match.
Every 15 minute segment includes news headlines, several longer news reports or interviews, a travel bulletin, sports headlines and ( on weekdays ) business news.
Every minute we expected to be his last but the brave chap went on .” As he crawled closer to the German lines, the firing increased.
Every year, on the Dutch national Remembrance Day, May 4, a procession of local residents silently walks through the town towards the monument, where wreaths are laid, the Dutch national anthem is sung and a two minute silence is held for these and other victims of the Second World War.
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# Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies (" transclusions ") of all or part of the document.
Every cellular system has a broadcast mechanism to distribute such information to a plurality of mobiles.
Every gauge field has an associated ghost, and where the gauge field acquires a mass via the Higgs mechanism, the associated ghost field acquires the same mass ( in the Feynman -' t Hooft gauge only, not true for other gauges ).
Every breechloader must have some form of mechanism that allows the breech to be opened for loading, yet securely locked for firing.
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Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.
Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.
Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.
Every winter a kegful of this sauce was made and placed at the end of a row of four other kegs in the cellar, so that when its turn came, it was properly mellowed.
Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.
Every passage to the city was guarded by gates and towers, and a wall surrounded each of the city's rings.
Jimmy Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time was often drawn in the two-panel format as seen in this 1943 example.
Jimmy Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time was often displayed in a two-panel format with the first panel showing some deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior and the second panel revealing the truth of the situation.
" Nietzsche, who was heavily influenced by Schopenhauer, wrote: " Every concept originates through our equating what is unequal.
Every aspect of life was regulated to some degree by the party, and the will of its founding-president, Mobutu Sese Seko.
Cobham was a common butt of veiled satire in Elizabethan popular literature ; he figures in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour and may have been part of the reason The Isle of Dogs was suppressed.
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