Short, stiff whips, including crops, are capable of inflicting welts or painful stings, but typically no disabling injuries.

He enjoyed the experience and got a juvenile lead in Jerry For Short in New York, followed by a tour in vaudeville with Texas Guinan, until Guinan dropped him from the act, dismissing him as " too stiff.

The History Of England has often been compared with Green's Short History.

* The Monologue Man ( played by Chris Morris ): Short stories, often up to 10 minutes in length, written from the perspective of a lonely and socially inept man.

Short path distillation is a distillation technique that involves the distillate travelling a short distance, often only a few centimeters, and is normally done at reduced pressure.

Short term financial management is often termed " working capital management ", and relates to cash -, inventory-and debtors management.

Short JAPH programs are often used as signatures in online forums, or as T-shirt designs.

Short term gains were often made by selling the farms equipment.

Short, localized, and often dry thunderstorms are usually associated with the monsoon.

Usually the upper limbs are not fully formed and sections of the “ hands and arms may be missing .” Short arm bones, fused fingers, and missing thumbs will often occur.

In the original sketches, Doug and Steve were often joined by that night's guest, credited as ' barhop ' ( including turns by Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks, Martin Short, Alec Baldwin, Jack Nicholson, and Sylvester Stallone parodying his familiar Rocky Balboa role ).

The Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Ted Short, was Leader of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1976 and often thought of as Deputy Prime Minister ; he was referred to as such in the citation for being made an Honorary Freeman of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne.

The Harrier Jump Jet, often referred to as just " Harrier " or " the Jump Jet ", is a British designed military jet aircraft capable of Vertical / Short Takeoff and Landing ( V / STOL ) via thrust vectoring.

Short of banding studies it is often not obvious that the birds seen in any particular locality as the seasons change are in fact different members of the same species passing through, gradually working their way north or south.

Short is often regarded as the strongest English player of the 20th century as he was ranked third in the world, from January 1988 to July 1989.

Short yardage and goal-line backs often are Power Backs that are not prone to fumbling.

Alternatively Black can meet 6. d4 with 6 ... exd4, when White can try 7. Qb3, a move often favoured by Nigel Short.

Short secondary LIMs are often wound as parallel connections between coils of the same phase, whereas short primaries are usually wound in series.

Short clips of key characters will often climax in a freeze frame as that cast member's name is superimposed.

Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals.

Short films are often made by independent filmmakers for non profit, either with a low budget, no budget at all, and in rare cases big budgets.

Short films, often less than a minute long, were often inserted as breaks in the episode's main plot, narrated by Robyn Hayle ( the same actress who provided the voice of TXL ).

Short and often claw-like hands, progressive joint stiffness, and carpal tunnel syndrome can restrict hand mobility and function.

Short track racing, often associated with fairgrounds and similar venues, is where stock car racing first got off the back roads and into organized and regulated competition.

In " A Short History of Progress ," Ronald Wright notes on p. 49, " The warrior caste, supposedly society's protectors, often become protection racketeers.

* Short bones are roughly cube-shaped, and have only a thin layer of compact bone surrounding a spongy interior.

Short and rather inexplicit passages concerning religious images, were to have great impact on the development of Catholic art.

Short verse dialogues between Death and each of its victims, which could have been performed as plays, can be found in the direct aftermath of the Black Death in Germany ( where it was known as the Totentanz, and in Spain as la Danza de la Muerte ).

Former ministers such as Clare Short and Chris Smith have criticised the lack of decision-making power in Cabinet.

Professor Francesco Cappuccio said, " Short sleep has been shown to be a risk factor for weight gain, hypertension, and Type 2 diabetes, sometimes leading to mortality ; but in contrast to the short sleep-mortality association, it appears that no potential mechanisms by which long sleep could be associated with increased mortality have yet been investigated.

Since Phase 2, there have been no changes to the Short Message operation packages in MAP, although other operation packages have been enhanced to support CAMEL SMS control.

Short stories have frequently been adapted for radio dramas, as on NBC Presents: Short Story ( 1951 – 52 ).

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Slessor believed that had the air force been forced to choose among the three British bombers under development in the late 1930s — the Avro Manchester, Short Stirling, and Handley Page Halifax — it would have chosen the wrong one.

* Pepin the Short defeats the Lombards of northern Italy, who have threatened Pope Stephen II.

Based on native testimony and archaeological research, he claimed the island was originally colonized by Hanau eepe (" Long Ears "), from South America, and that Polynesians Hanau momoko (" Short Ears ") arrived only in the mid-16th century ; they may have come independently or perhaps were imported as workers.

The Short Service, an unpretentious setting of items for the Anglican Matins, Communion and Evensong services, which seems to designed to comply with the Protestant reformers ’ demand for clear words and simple musical textures, may well have been composed during the Lincoln years.

Short periods for stream ciphers have been a practical concern.

The far West End ( Innsbrook and Short Pump ) and almost all of Chesterfield County have no public transportation despite dense housing, retail, and office development.

Although it was acknowledged as a continuation of their old work, albeit with an increased use of synthesisers, Sam Spies of the Richmond Times-Dispatch noted that " the experiments in style that made Cake fun to listen to have all but disappeared from ' Pressure Chief ' ... What's left is mostly uninspired, so-called alternative rock ", and Graeme Hammond of the Sunday Herald Sun wrote that " the melodies are listless, the album bereft of anything with the verve of Short Skirt / Long Jacket or Comfort Eagle ".

He wrote: Manifesto summario para os que ignoram poderse navegar pelo elemento do ar ( Short Manifesto for those who are unaware that is possible to sail through the element air, 1709 ); and Varios modos de esgotar sem gente as naus que fazem agua ( Several ways of draining, without people, ships that leak water, 1710 ); some of his sermons also have been printed.

Short track racing skates have a longer overall height to the blade to allow for deep edge turns without the boot contacting the ice.

He wrote, " Short on suspense, routine in its action and monotonous in its performances, this movie opened yesterday without benefit of press screenings, usually a sign that the distributors have detected cinematic rigor mortis before audiences formally withdraw such life support systems as tickets, popcorn and the glucose drip of spilled Coke.

Short shoots have very short internodes ( so they may grow only one or two centimeters in several years ) and their leaves are usually unlobed.

Short buying at a table, winning and then cashing out only to short buy right back in again would generally be an impractical strategy in live games with long waiting lists, but the situation is different in online games where players sometimes have immediate access to a table.

Also, The Sandman and its spin-offs have won 26 Eisner Awards, including three for Best Continuing Series, one for Best Short Story, four for Best Writer ( Neil Gaiman ), seven for Best Lettering ( Todd Klein ), and two for Best Penciller / Inker ( one each for Charles Vess and P. Craig Russell ).

Short toll roads with no intermediate entries or exits may have only one toll plaza at one end, with motorists traveling in either direction paying a flat fee either when they enter or when they exit the toll road.

Competitors have to sit for three papers: the Short Answer test consisting of twenty questions ; the Individual Power Test which spans three hours and comprises five questions ; and the Team Test.

In " Toads Of The Short Forest " ( from the album Weasels Ripped My Flesh ), composer Frank Zappa explains: " At this very moment on stage we have drummer A playing in 7 / 8, drummer B playing in 3 / 4, the bass playing in 3 / 4, the organ playing in 5 / 8, the tambourine playing in 3 / 4, and the alto sax blowing his nose " ( Mothers of Invention 1970 ).