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I was again in motion and at a speed which belied the truck's similarity to Senor X's Ford turtle.
It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.
The doctor's mind was working at a great speed ; ;
Another example is the recent cancellation of the F-108, a long-range interceptor with a speed three times as great as the speed of sound, which was designed for use against manned bombers in the period of the mid-1960's.
The increase in oxygen uptake rates from 1.2 to 2.6 mg/l/hr which followed an increase in rotor speed was believed to be related to resuspension of solids which had settled at the lower rotor speeds.
Toying with her field in the early stages, Garden Fresh was asked for top speed only in the stretch by Jockey Philip Grimm and won by a length and a half in 1.24 3-5 for the 7 furlongs.
The son of a wealthy Evanston executive was fined $100 yesterday and forbidden to drive for 60 days for leading an Evanston policeman on a high speed chase over icy Evanston and Wilmette streets Jan. 20.
Kimmell ordered the driver to back up, watched the children safely across and was approaching the car when it suddenly `` took off at high speed '', he said, narrowly missing him.
Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;
Upon reaching the desired speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the drive, and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towards the star which was its journey's end.
If that was the skiff, it was making unprecedented speed.
Unfortunately the Nepōhualtzintzin and its teaching were among the victims of the conquering destruction, when a diabolic origin was attributed to them after observing the tremendous properties of representation, precision and speed of calculations.
Count Jules-Albert de Dion was first into Rouen after 6 hours and 48 minutes at an average speed of 19 km / h.
The official winners were Peugeot and Panhard as cars were judged on their speed, handling and safety characteristics, and De Dion's steam car needed a stoker which was forbidden.
* In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500, 000 km / h ( over 300, 000 mph ) for the last 1, 500 years.
This meant that although ROM applications ran at the same speed, there was a substantial speed decrease on applications running from RAM.
The display logic and resulting display ' snow ' was irritating, as was the missing lower case support, the CPU speed could be improved, the quality and layout of the keyboard was bothersome, and the floppy disk capacity and reliability was low.

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The symptoms of a single person may be similar from episode to episode, but are not necessarily so and may be influenced by the speed at which glucose levels are dropping, as well as previous incidents.
The " Lombard " appeared in 1999, ( AKA: Bronze Keyboard ) a thinner, lighter, and faster ( 333 or 400 MHz ) PowerBook with a longer battery life and had both USB and SCSI built in and was a New World ROM Mac, and then the " Pismo " in 2000, which replaced the single SCSI port with two FireWire ports, updated the PowerBook line to AGP graphics, a 100 MHz bus speed, and DVD-ROM optical drives standard, in addition to dropping the " G3 " from the PowerBook name.
The primary reason for excluding these phases was that the Olympic Committee was considering dropping the sport of eventing from the Olympics because of the cost and large area required for the speed and endurance phase with a steeplechase course and several miles of roads-and-tracks.
It continues into Westfield, where it passes more residences and businesses with the speed limit dropping to.
The route intersects County Route 689 ( Amboy Avenue / Morristown Road ), where it turns to the west and continues through areas of residences and businesses, with the speed limit dropping to at the County Route 687 ( Cottrell Road ) intersection.
The residential development along the road increases before it reaches the Dvoor's Circle ( a traffic circle ) with County Route 523 ( Mine Street / Flemington Road ), with the speed limit dropping to and then to.
It was mounted on two crutches, and before dropping it was spun up to speed by an auxiliary motor.
Air was blown over the top of the cards to keep them separated, and to increase the dropping speed.
Performer was also based on an internal scene graph, but was allowed to modify it for better speed as it saw fit, even dropping “ less important ” objects and polygons in order to maintain guaranteed performance levels.
Meanwhile, a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft began dropping flares and floatlights to mark the course and speed of TF 18 for the impending attack by Hagai's bombers.
Some receivers are perceived as a deep threat because of their flat-out speed, while others may be possession receivers known for not dropping passes, running crossing routes across the middle of the field, and generally, converting third down situations.
The casing of WE177 was unusually robust and complicated for a British air-dropped bomb, made necessary by the requirement for the laydown options, the stresses from the opening of the drogue parachutes being particularly severe at the speed anticipated for the TSR-2, the requirement stating a dropping speed of from Mach ( M ) 0. 75 to M 1. 15 at a height of 50 ft for TSR-2 and M 0. 75 to M 0. 95 for the Buccaneer.
During the television coverage of the qualifying session of the 2012 German Grand Prix held on the new circuit, former F1 driver and current lead TV commentator for Sky Sports Formula One coverage Martin Brundle, stated that he, along with other drivers of his era ( mid-1980s to the mid-1990s ), didn't really enjoy racing at the old Hockenheim as the long straights often saw only seven or eight finishers from twenty six starters, with most dropping out through engine or transmission failure caused by the long periods at high speed on the forest straights.
Gordon Solie interviewed Rude the following week, with Rude discussing transitioning from arm wrestling to pro wrestling and dropping weight to increase speed.
They can be seen to perform a mating display of rising at speed in a vertical climb in clear air, before stalling and dropping into a powered dive, then repeating.
This wave will quickly slow as the expanding gas cools, dropping the speed of sound within the expanding gas, but at close range this shockwave can be very damaging.
PAL and SECAM conversions do agitate, though, with the unpleasant choice between slowing down video ( and audio pitch, noticeably ) by four percent, from 25 to 24 frames per second, in order to maintain a 1: 1 frame match, slightly changing the rhythm and " feel " of the program ; or maintaining original speed by periodically dropping frames, thereby creating jerkiness and possible loss of vital detail in fast-moving action or precise edits.
The third rail could be contacted by dropping the third rail shoe and the power source switched at speed, as could be the reverse transition.
His intention was that, through holding, dropping, rolling, swinging, hiding and revealing the balls, the child may acquire knowledge of objects and spacial relationships, movement, speed and time, colour and contrast, weights and gravity.
The reason is that wireless devices dynamically negotiate the top speed at which they can communicate without dropping too many data packets.
In aerobatics, Pugachev's Cobra ( or Pugachev Cobra ) is a dramatic and demanding manoeuvre in which a plane flying at a moderate speed suddenly raises the nose momentarily to the vertical position and slightly beyond, before dropping it back to normal flight.
Dropping in is a skateboarding trick with which a skateboarder can start skating a half-pipe by dropping into it from the coping instead of starting from the bottom and pumping gradually for more speed.
Polished handovers can compensate for a lack of basic speed to some extent, and disqualification for dropping the baton or failing to transfer it within the box is common, even at the highest level.

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