As George Gamow put in his science-popularizing book, One, Two, Three ... Infinity ( 1947 ), " The metallic substances differ from all other materials by the fact that the outer shells of their atoms are bound rather loosely, and often let one of their electrons go free.

Edmond Halley in 1692 put forth the idea of Earth consisting of a hollow shell about thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core, about the diameters of the planets Venus, Mars, and Mercury.

Although an average M48 Patton crew could fire as many as seventeen 90mm shells during a " mad minute " ( sixty seconds with all guns firing-on command ), the Sheridan was known to put out only two 152mm shells during the same time frame.

As for the probability — to be sure that might admit some question — but I told her that in my judgment the poem had moral, and that too openly obtruded on the reader, It ought to have no more moral than the story of the merchant sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well and throwing the shells aside, and the Genii starting up and saying he must kill the merchant, because a date shell had put out the eye of the Genii's son.

The legend says that in order to distinguish a " xanino " from a human baby, some pots and egg shells should be put close to the fireplace ; a xanino would say: " I was born one hundred years ago, and since then I have not seen so many egg shells near the fire!

In view of the British naval forces, the HMS Queen Elizabeth put six 15-in shells amongst the Ottoman lines, scattering them and breaking the attack.

According to archaeologist Giovanni Lilliu, they were buried under shells of molluscs ; according to other theories, they were left outside the tomb, being put inside only after they had reduced to a skeleton.

Beaumont, who was part of the original installation team writes ..' I have vivid recollections of my colleagues during these years when we completed the installation and putting into service of the station to the accompaniment of the Luftwaffe's efforts to put southern England out of action and can I can still recall the line of craters left on the north side of the road opposite the station by a stick of bombs deposited by a German bomber one night and the cannon shells which penetrated the diesel generator building on another occasion.

In order to unmask the xanín, one must put some pots and egg shells near the fire, and, if the baby is a changeling, he will exclaim, " I was born one hundred years ago, and since then I have not seen so many egg shells near the fire!

The significant percentage of the lowest income group is made manifest due to the tendency of fisherman respondents who comprise bulk of the seaside respondents not to put value to their fish catch and sea shells collection for kitchen use or domestic consumption.

He also put in an appearance in the 1985 UK Transformers annual where he and the Insecticons attacked a meeting between the Autobots and Ronald Reagan, being defeated when he was accidentally hit by one of Bombshell's cerebro shells.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

The others put on old coats or ducking jackets, whichever they carried behind their saddle cantles.

He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.

Curt's fingers put a little more pressure on the trigger of his gun.

And Sweeney Squadron put its first marks on the combat record.

It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

He got a small fire started and put on bacon and coffee.

It had always seemed strange to Ramey that to disguise himself as a tourist, an ex-truck driver like Horsely would merely pick something outlandish and put it on his head.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

As an Air Force psychiatrist put it: `` You can't have dry runs on this one ''.

He does not know whether to look up or look aside, to put his hands in his pockets or to clench them at his side, to cross the street, or to continue on the same side.

Aristotle also tended to stratify all aspects of human nature and activity into levels of excellence and, like Plato, he put the pure and unimpassioned intellect on the top level.

It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.

One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.

We fashioned beards, put them on, and reported to the Hetman at the city desk.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

She had to clean the glass on the display cases in the butcher shop, help her brother scrub the cutting tables with wire brushes, mop the floors, put down new sawdust on the floors and help check the outgoing orders.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

their example caused Krim and his friends to put on `` Englishy airs, affect all sorts of impressive scholarship and social-register unnaturalness in order to slip through their narrow transoms and get into their pages ''.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.

Alec locked the hall door and put the key with his watch on the bedside table.

Maggie was looking much happier already, clearing a space on the table and chattering about how she could put up a typewriter right there, and be brushing up on her typing so Eugenia wouldn't be ashamed of it.

People enjoy art for art's sake, and don't demand that it keep them warm or put food on the table.

The report in the Irish Bulletin noted that the content of the speech proved too much for many of the RIC men who refused to carry out the order and one officer, Constable Jeremiah Mee, put his gun on the table and called Smyth a murderer.

Das Buch liegt auf dem Tisch ( dative: the book is lying on the table ), but Ich lege das Buch auf den Tisch ( accusative: I put the book on the table ).

In his invention of the Periodic Table of the Elements, Mendeleev had interchanged the orders of a few pairs of elements in order to put them in more appropriate places in this table of the elements.

After the war, Rear-Admiral Michael Musmanno, a U. S. naval officer and judge, published an account apparently based on eye-witness testimony: " At about 8: 15 pm, Goebbels arose from the table, put on his hat, coat and gloves and, taking his wife's arm, went upstairs to the garden.

Midway through the interview, Terry Gilliam put his feet up on the table and knocked the urn off, spilling the ashes and prompting a frantic, slapstick attempt to clean him up with a dustpan and brush, and subsequently a dustbuster.

For instance, analysis of water usage in Yemen has revealed that their water table ( underground water level ) is put at grave risk by over-use to fertilize their Khat crop.

As long as that directly connected route's interface is active, the BGP route to the destination will not be put into the routing table.

After Mick Dumke, a reporter for the Chicago Reader, questioned the effectiveness of the city's handgun ban, Daley picked up a rifle with a bayonet from a table of confiscated weapons and told him, " If I put this up your butt, you'll find out how effective it is.

In the United States of America, during the Great Depression, families were unable to put food on the table every day.

Then, before you are well seated at table, a child is yelling :—' The cows are over the fence ;' or ' The sheep are in the crop ,' and everyone jumps up and runs ... And when you have managed to drive the cows or the sheep into their paddock and put up the rails, you get back to the house nicely ' rested ' to find the pea-soup cold and full of flies, the pork under the table gnawed by dogs and cats, and you eat what you can lay your hands on, watching for the next trick the wretched animals are getting ready to play on you.

The seed would allow Chinese peasants to grow consumer products right out of the ground, which would put an end to the increasing material hardship ( one character reports that the interior water table has emptied out, forcing the mass abandonment of Han girls that later form the Mouse Army ) that cripples Chinese society.

He put down his bag on a table and pulled out a Colt AR-15 rifle with a Colt scope and one 30-round magazine attached.

In keeping with Stanton's promotion of the table as an iconic relic, women's rights activists put it in a place of honor at the head of the casket at the funeral of Susan B. Anthony on March 14, 1906.

Show runner Mike Scully thought that Gil would be " a one-shot thing " but " Dan Castellaneta was so funny at the table read doing the character, we kept making up excuses in subsequent episodes to put him in.

Just as in table stakes, no player may remove chips or cash from the table once they are put in play ( except small amounts for refreshments, tips, and such )-- this includes all markers, whether one's own or those won from other players.

The family income is augmented by some small-scale farming, and John occasionally hunts to put meat on the table.