Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

The mate, Robert Juet, who had kept the journal on the Half Moon, was experienced -- but he was a bitter old man, ready to complain or desert at any opportunity.

Half of the population of the U.S. would be needed to work on arms just to feed the people ''.

Ticket inspectors on the train line through Aberdour were known for their sing song refrain: " Half an hour, Half an hour, Half an hour to Aberdour-tickets please.

Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive next to Harold Washington Park on the South Side ( Chicago ) | South Side

A Full Figure of 8 returns the dancer to original position ; a Half Figure of 8 leaves the dancer on the opposite side of the set from original position.

On March 14, 1942, the first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with US-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co. Half of the total supply produced at the time was used on that one patient.

Half an hour later, German radio broadcast the news of the rescue, to which the Stammheim inmates listened on their radios.

" King dedicated his 1989 book The Dark Half, about a pseudonym turning on a writer, to " the deceased Richard Bachman ", and in 1996, when the Stephen King novel Desperation was released, the companion novel The Regulators carried the " Bachman " byline.

* " Theodore Roosevelt Dies Suddenly at Oyster Bay Home ; Nation Shocked, Pays Tribute to Former President ; Our Flag on All Seas and in All Lands at Half Mast ".

Half a dozen urban plans for Tirana prepared by consultants have included proposals on how to guide development.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

In Los Angeles, Smith appeared in theatrical productions of Living On Salvation Street, for which she was paid $ 14 for each performance, Boys and Girls / Men and Women and How the Other Half Loves, and played the recurring role of Luella Waters on the Showtime series Brothers.

His first broadcast was as a regular on the radio show Educating Archie, and this led to appearances on Hancock's Half Hour.

* " Grey ", a Half Life 2 modification based on the Half life modifications Mistake and Mistake-1.

* Half loop ( also known as a " Euler " or " Thoren "), a full-rotation jump with a loop entry but landed on the back inside edge of the opposite foot.

Half of the Members of the Bundestag are elected directly from 299 constituencies ( first-past-the-post system ), the other half are elected from the parties ’ Land lists in such a way as to achieve proportional representation for the total Bundestag ( if possible ).

Half or more of the trench is filled with " green " ( unfired ) bricks which are stacked in an open lattice pattern to allow airflow.

Half of the species know are in the great diverse Begonia group of Begoniaceae with 2 genera, and 1500 species.

Two comprehensive histories of Engelbart's laboratory and work are in What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff and A Heritage of Innovation: SRI's First Half Century by Donald Neilson.

Half reactions for a Daniell cell are these:

Half of the country's workers are engaged in farming.

Bogart told her, " Half the world's female population would throw themselves at Frank's feet and here you are flouncing around with guys who wear capes and little ballerina slippers.

Half of the ten members are from Macau, the others from mainland China.

Half wavelength long wires or strips of conducting material, such as chaff, are very reflective but do not direct the scattered energy back toward the source.

According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.

Such triathlons may be described as a full distance triathlon or " Half distance ", but the " Ironman " and " Iron " labels are the official property of the WTC.

" Half " jumps are now allowed.

Half of the patients with the disorder who have cosmetic surgery performed are not pleased with the aesthetic outcome.

Among the many films that have copied this formula are Under Siege ( terrorists take over a ship ), Snakes on a Plane ( poisonous snakes take over a passenger plane ), Speed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Derailed ( hostages are trapped on a train ), Sudden Death ( terrorists take over an Ice Hockey stadium ), Passenger 57, Executive Decision and Air Force One ( hostages are trapped on a plane ), Con Air ( criminals take over a transport plane ), and Half Past Dead and The Rock ( criminals or terrorists take over a prison ).

* ( 1890 ) In How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, the effects of typhus fever and smallpox on " Jewtown " are described.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

New boys are now admitted only at the start of the Michaelmas Half, unless in exceptional circumstances.

Half to three-quarters of all adults are diagnosed with the disease, and about a third of the tribe's adults require regular medical treatment.

Half of these possibilities, those where the left boundary is even, correspond to the 8 types of DCT ; the other half are the 8 types of DST.

Half the army with the baggage under Hephaestion and Perdiccas, both cavalry commanders, are sent through the Khyber Pass, while Alexander leads the rest, together with his siege train, through the hills to the north.

The seventh tapestry in the series appears briefly in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, adorning the wall of a corridor near the Room of Requirement and the tapestry is seen in the various common rooms ( Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff ) with different colored backgrounds.

Half of the marbles in the jar are red and half blue, and both colors correspond to two different alleles of one gene in the population.

Half of them are stored as a reserve in the spleen in clusters in the red pulp's Cords of Billroth.

Half is red and half is blue, split along a diagonal line running from the lower left hand corner to the upper right hand corner.

Half of a leavened loaf of whole-wheat potato bread made with red potatoes.

Half figurative, half abstract he mixes elements of earth, sand, metal cuttings on his canvas in sober beige, grey, velvet red tones.