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The first " rapid firing " firearms were usually similar to the 19th century Gatling gun, which would fire cartridges from a magazine as fast as and as long as the operator turned a crank.
Lever harps use a shortening lever ( usually shaped like a capital letter L ) on the neck next to each individual string which is to be activated ( i. e., turned ) manually to shorten the string and raise the tone a half step.
A short hull is preferred, as a longer hull takes more distance to turn and usually must be turned at a slower speed.
On the reverse side of each piece, other than the king and gold general, are one or two other characters, in amateur sets often in a different colour ( usually red ); this side is turned face up during play to indicate that the piece has been promoted.
This proposition has provoked heavy criticism from south European countries, which often distill used mash from wine-making into spirits ; although higher quality mash is usually distilled into some variety of pomace brandy, lower-quality mash is better turned into neutral-flavored spirits instead.
Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and, as a result of his investigations, claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being introduced into the blood stream ( usually via a wound ).
The winds in this department are usually gentle, blowing from the sea to the land, though sometimes the Mistral blows strongly from the northwest, or, turned by the mountains, from the east.
Oxen could usually be turned loose at night and easily rounded up in the mornings.
cornetto diritto ) is made of wood – usually yellow boxwood – with a conical bore as in the curved cornett, but turned on the outside to a circular cross-section, usually without ornamentation.
The screw is turned usually by a windmill or by manual labour.
* Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes is inspired by children's picture books in which each page is cut into horizontal strips that can be turned independently, allowing different pictures ( usually of people: heads, torsos, waists, legs, etc.
When a mask is used, it is usually flesh-hued with a large nose and a moustache that is either straight and bristly or turned up at the corners.
On these coins and on gems, Bonus Eventus is a standing male nude, usually with one leg bent and his head turned away toward a libation bowl in his outstretched hand.
Their armies, as fielded in the tabletop and computer games, usually have the advantages of speed and technology, composed of highly specialised units that have turned specific, the Craftworld Eldar ( often simply called Eldar ), and the Dark Eldar.
By default, this selection is usually turned off, to protect privacy.
The majority images show a formal portrait of a single figure, facing and looking toward the viewer, from an angle that is usually slightly turned from full face.
The face-veil portion is usually a rectangular piece of semi-transparent cloth whose top side is sewn to corresponding portion of the head-scarf, so that the veil hangs down loose from the scarf, and it can be turned up if the woman wishes to reveal her face ( otherwise the whole face would be covered ).
A two-dimensional real manifold can be turned into a Riemann surface ( usually in several inequivalent ways ) if and only if it is orientable and metrizable.
In some episodes Mr. Bean has a long-running feud with the unseen driver of a light blue Reliant Regal Supervan III ( registration GRA 26K ), which will usually get turned over, crashed out of its parking space and so forth by Mr. Bean in his mini.
People who make fools of themselves usually find a scapegoat, and when the critics were exposed to the music of Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins and others they turned on Nichols and savaged him, trashing him as unfairly as they had revered him.
He turned to fraud himself, operating scams that usually involved swindling elderly widows.
In amateur processing, the film is removed from the camera and wound onto a reel in complete darkness ( usually inside a darkroom with the safelight turned off or a lightproof bag with arm holes ).
When a heavier R & B vocal was needed, the music producers usually turned to singer Ricky Lancelotti ( billed in the show credits under his stage name Rick Lancelot ).

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They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.
This can usually be found out at the nearest town hall.
A visit to the site by a group of several persons can usually bring out new ideas or verify opinions most helpful to the planning study of any recreation area.
The result of this attitude has been the domination of many orthography conferences by such considerations as typographic ' esthetics ', which usually turns out to be nothing more than certain prejudices carried over from European languages.
Does the `` public '' usually sell at bottoms, or does the market usually bottom out when the `` public '' sells??
Such tactics were resorted to frequently with the unmanageable longhorns, and a thorough `` tailin' '' usually knocked the breath out of a steer, and so dazed 'im that he'd behave for the rest of the day.
one here and one that's out quite a ways where there's usually curb parking ''.
So junior's bedroom was usually tricked out with heavy, nondescript pieces that supposedly could take the `` hard knocks '', while the fine secretary was relegated to the parlor where it was for show only.
The boy usually was sent out at about that time with the water, and he always dragged an old snow-fence lath or a stick along, to play with.
Water is drawn in through their mouths, which are usually at the bottom of their heads, and passes through branchial food traps between their mouths and their gills where fine particles are trapped in mucus and filtered out.
Aardwolves usually hide in burrows during the day, and then they come out at night to seek food.
Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.
Once the desired scope is laid out, the vessel should be gently forced astern, usually using the auxiliary motor but possibly by backing a sail.
They usually cannot filter out meaningful or appropriate anagrams from large numbers of nonsensical word combinations.
The Westernized versions also usually leave out the Sichuan Pepper that is a fundamental part of the original dish.
Following screening of antibacterials against a wide range of bacteria, production of the active compounds is carried out using fermentation, usually in strongly aerobic conditions.
Carnegie also bought out some regional competitors, and merged with others, usually maintaining the majority shares in the companies.
End-gaining is usually carried out because an imperative priority of impatience or frustration justifies it.
In addition to over, Porter and Duff defined the compositing operators in, held out by ( usually abbreviated out ), atop, and xor ( and the reverse operators rover, rin, rout, and ratop ) from a consideration of choices in blending the colors of two pixels when their coverage is, conceptually, overlaid orthogonally:
Ten of the tests, which had a total of 300 participants, involved subjects picking the correct chart interpretation out of a number of others which were not the astrologically correct chart interpretation ( usually 3 to 5 others ).
* The archtop guitar incorporates a top, either carved out of solid wood or heat-pressed using laminations, that is arched like instruments in the violin family, usually with an f-hole rather than a round sound hole.
** DI — Defensive Indifference: if the catcher does not attempt to throw out a runner ( usually because the base would be insignificant ), the runner is not awarded a steal.

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