When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.

* Impact — Sensitivity is expressed in terms of the distance through which a standard weight must be dropped onto the material to cause it to explode.

In 1888 he headed the commission that established the Official Table of Drops, listing how far a person of a particular weight should be dropped when hanged for a capital offence ( the only method of ' judicial execution ' in the United Kingdom at that time ), to ensure an instant and painless death, by cleanly breaking the neck between the 2nd and 3rd vertebrae, an ' exacting science ', eventually brought to perfection by Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint.

The way in which the Chinese land mine trigger worked was a system of two steel wheels rotated by a falling weight, the chord of which was wound around their axle, and when the enemy stepped onto the disguised boards they released the pins that dropped the weights.

As a result, the weight dropped from 7. 00 to 6. 27 grams.

After a winter storm dropped nearly 17 inches of snow in the Minneapolis / St Paul area the Saturday prior to the Vikings December 12 home game versus the New York Giants and 30 mph gusts drove snow removers off the dome's roof overnight, several panels were damaged as the weight of the snow caused the roof to collapse.

The weight dropped from 7. 30 to 6. 92 grams, and the thickness changed from 1. 8 to 1. 75 millimetres.

Gravitation is most familiar as the agent that gives weight to objects with mass and causes them to fall to the ground when dropped.

Unusually, the American Kennel Club dropped the minimum weight requirement from its standard.

Due to weight considerations, the airbag design concept was dropped.

Heavy equipment like the Leichtgeschütz 40 was dropped with a special triple-parachute harness designed to bear the extra weight.

Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's height and weight were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken, but not so much that the person was decapitated.

Updates to the design include serration at the front of the slide for easier operation and disassembly, a high " beaver-tail " grip safety, external extractor, lighter weight hammer and trigger, as well as updated internal safeties to prevent accidental discharges if dropped.

Total front armour was increased to 80 mm, weight to 32 t, and road speed dropped to 23 km / h

Overall length was reduced 5. 9 inches ( 150 mm ) and height dropped half an inch ( 12 mm ), but overall weight was up about 75 pounds ( 34 kg ).

Matthew Perry's weight fluctuated drastically over the next few years and once dropped down to.

A number of paratroopers were dropped in flooded areas around Varaville and several drowned when they were dragged under the surface of the water due to the weight of their equipment.

Mauser offered a version of the MG 81 ( rejected due to excessive weight and its belt-fed operation ) while Krieghoff presented a rising-block prototype, which too was quickly dropped.

Searle contracted both beri-beri and malaria during his incarceration, which included numerous beatings, and his weight dropped to less than 40 kilograms.

After gathering himself from the shock, Danger Mouse asked Agent 57 to please transform into something heavier ; Agent 57 transformed into a hippo, and the excess weight dropped the Mark III.

After a bout of malaria, Funston's weight dropped to an alarming 95 pounds and he was given a leave of absence by the Cubans.

The leaf of Victoria is able to support quite a large weight due to the plant's structure, although the leaf itself is quite delicate: so much so that " a straw held 6 inches above and dropped perpendicularly upon it would readily pass through it ".

Sawchuk was ordered by Detroit general manager Jack Adams to lose weight before the 1951 – 1952 season, and his personality seemed to change when he dropped more than forty pounds, becoming sullen and withdrawn.

Her weight had dropped to 73 pounds and she was exercising as much as six hours per day.

( Even granted that the Congo should be unified, you don't protect Western security by first removing the pro-Western weight from the power equilibrium.

However, Af adsorbs water from the atmosphere and this may account for the low chromium analysis and high total weight loss.

William Beebe reports 26 inches and 2.4 ounces ( this snake must have been emaciated ) for the length and the weight of a young anaconda from British Guiana.

In contrast, Ditmars recorded the average length of seventy-two young of a 19-foot female as 38 inches, and four young were born in London at a length of 35 or 36 inches and a weight of from 14 to 16 ounces.

At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.

Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.

He pulled it over, climbed up, and lifted out the big volume, almost losing his balance from the weight of it.

Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.

But tonight his drink tasted like branch water and even his favorite meal of steak and tossed salad gave no surcease from the growing weight of the letter in his pocket.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

He decreased the silver purity of the denarius from 89 % to 83. 5 % — the actual silver weight dropping from 2. 88 grams to 2. 68 grams.

Upon his accession he reduced the silver purity of the denarius from 46. 5 % to 43 % — the actual silver weight dropping from 1. 41 grams to 1. 30 grams ; however, in 229 he revalued the denarius, increasing the silver purity and weight to 45 % and 1. 46 grams respectively.

In any case the vests were abandoned by many soldiers due to their weight on long marches as well as the stigma they got for being cowards from their fellow troops.

The weight saved from the lack of a turret could allow more armour to be fitted, and the lower profile allowed this armour to be concentrated in the hull.

The combined weight of the adrenal glands in an adult human ranges from 7 to 10 grams.

Critical reaction to the film was mostly negative, with much being made of Taylor's wildly fluctuating weight from scene to scene.

* Low molecular weight gases ( Hydrogen & helium ) may be difficult to remove from the analysis chamber, and may be adsorbed and emitted from the specimen, even though not present in the original specimen.

The land is still emerging isostatically from its subsident state, which was caused by the weight of the last glaciation.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

Its design period was protracted, with various development problems exacerbated by the fact that designers lacked information on the actual size and weight of the proposed boosted-fission warhead Green Bamboo, or its likely thermonuclear successor derived from the Granite series.