He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.

She was forty-nine at this time, a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long ago for a stubborn sort of prayer.

For example, the importance of the Regulus 2, a very promising aerodynamic ship-to-surface missile designed to be launched by surfaced submarines, was greatly diminished by the successful acceleration of the much more advanced Polaris ballistic missile launched by submerged submarines.

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.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.

Called a `` Slo-Flo '' meter it was designed for this job by Power Plus Industries of Los Angeles, a key individual being Don Nelson.

The anode holder shown in figure 2 was designed with two goals in mind.

He found, as he had suspected, a general consensus that perhaps over half of the present functionally designed course was not really functional for these students.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

The questionnaire was designed to elicit three types of information: ( 1 ) the facts regarding certain characteristics of the respondents, including their experience with, and interest in, securing defense business ; ;

The layout of the sewer lines was designed by Henry W. Taylor, who was the engineer for the Manchester Village disposal plant.

The pilot lagoon was designed to handle the wastes from 314 persons with a 4-day aeration period.

If it was designed to put me on the spot, it would have to have been written before Peralta ever called me in on the case ''.

It was of the hunter-killer type, designed to seek out ships and other submarines with its most advanced gear and destroy them with torpedoes.

The production, designed by Simon Virsaladze, was completely traditional but traditional in the right way.

Hendricks' story was designed for children and he had a small audience of small children right on stage with him.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

The game was conceived by Lyle Rains and programmed and designed by Dominic Walsh and Ed Logg.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

I knew of but one test and I threw it out to her for what it was worth.

Rector's next stop was at the schoolroom, where Mavis was monitoring a test.

It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.

In this test a Af tape was pulled between the blocks with a motor and pulley at a rate of Af with a clearance of 0.002'' '' on each side of the tape.

The maximum suction was 3.25'' '' of test fluid measured from the top of the block, and steady states were apparently reached with these fluids.

In this test, 130 gallons of a suspension, having a count of Af organisms per ml, or a total of approximately Af spores, was aerosolized.

One drop of each sample was added to one drop of a 2% suspension of group Af or group B red cells in a small Af test tube.

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

The final sample was not significantly different from a normal distribution in regard to reading achievement or intelligence test scores.

In 1913 an abortive provision was made for the stay of federal injunction proceedings upon institution of state court test cases.

Accordingly, another test of the questionaire was made.

The first test mailing ( to 14 companies ) was made in June, 1960.

The second test mailing ( to 100 companies ) was made in July, 1960.

The screen test was never made -- but Diane was.

There was no close examination of his clothes for bloodstains, and certainly no scientific test was made of them.