According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary ( third edition 1933 ) the term sidewalk was still in occasional use in the UK and pavement was also used for: ' a piece of paved work '; ' the superficial covering of a floor, yard, street etc.

Shorter breathed these days, she can still summon a warm, rich sound and vividly tell a song's story.

Shorter pieces of parchment or paper are called rolls, which may still be many meters or feet long, were used in the medieval and Early Modern period in Europe and various West Asian cultures for manuscript administrative documents intended for various uses, including accounting, rent-rolls, legal agreements, and inventories.

Thus, older writings, as well as popular and sometimes scientific writings ( including the American Heritage, Merriam-Webster, and New Shorter Oxford dictionaries ), still often call them fer-de-lance.

Shorter regional rail services will still usually be operated exclusively by multiple units where they exist, which have a shorter range and operate at lower average speeds than services on Inter-city rail networks.

Shorter rifles could have easily been made ( and often were made ) that would have been more accurate than the smooth bore muskets they replaced, but military commanders still used tactics like firing by ranks, and feared that with a shorter weapon the soldiers in the rear ranks might accidentally shoot the front rank soldiers in the back of the head.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

* Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, by Clement K. Shorter, from Project Gutenberg

Shorter molecules move faster and migrate farther than longer ones because shorter molecules migrate more easily through the pores of the gel.

Shorter, lighter games in this class are known as gateway games, whereas longer, heavier games are known as gamers ' games.

Shorter, more approachable games such as Ticket to Ride and Elfenland are usually preferred by the committee that gives out the award.

Shorter code lengths can be used for palettes smaller than the 256 colors in the example.

In the late 1970s, she began working closely with noted jazz musicians, among them Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Charles Mingus, the last of whom asked her to collaborate on his final recordings.

By the end of the summer, Davis had persuaded Wayne Shorter to leave Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and join the quintet.

Shorter became the group's principal composer, and some of his compositions of this era ( including " Footprints " and " Nefertiti ") have become standards.

American marathon runner Frank Shorter, observing the unfolding events from the balcony of his nearby lodging, was quoted as saying, " Imagine those poor guys over there.

Shorter pieces are sometimes laid horizontally in shallow trenches and, when covered with a few centimetres of soil, rapidly throw up sucker-like shoots.

Shorter data units and built-in QoS were some of the unique selling points of ATM for applications such as video on demand.

Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams.

Shorter boards are typically considered youth size, designed for use by children, though some varieties of short boards are specifically designed for a special purpose, such as the performance of snowboarding tricks.

Shorter sidecut radii ( tighter turns ) are generally used for halfpipe riding while longer sidecut radii ( wider turns ) are used for freeride / alpine / racing riding.

Shorter TTLs can cause heavier loads on an authoritative nameserver, but can be useful when changing the address of critical services like Web servers or MX records, and therefore are often lowered by the DNS administrator prior to a service being moved, in order to minimize disruptions.

Shorter, newer, and Olympic quality tracks tend to be timber or synthetics ; longer, older, or inexpensive tracks are concrete, macadam, or even cinder.

Shorter pitches and smaller goals are used by youth teams.

Shorter CIDR prefixes match more addresses, while longer prefixes match fewer.

Shorter than most recent general histories and with lots of good illustrations.

Shorter versions of Magna Carta were subsequently issued by British monarchs, and Clause 39 of Magna Carta was renumbered " 29.

Shorter repeat sequences tend to suffer from artifacts such as PCR stutter and preferential amplification, as well as the fact that several genetic diseases are associated with tri-nucleotide repeats such as Huntington's disease.

The 1995 song Noch koroche dnya (" Night is Shorter than Day ") by the Russian heavy metal band Aria is based on Meursault's encounter with the chaplain in the final scene of the novel.

Women still did the " booking " of gold leaf sheets until 1961.

Before the fire, the reserve was of particular importance for its educational work with visiting school parties, and still supports these trips with advance booking.

The frontage of the station was rebuilt in 1875, and was described: " Although the Roman Catholic chapel room is no longer used the station still has a cathedral-like atmosphere as one passes from the period booking hall to the vault-like station and the stairs down to the original station area ".

However, in this situation, teams are still permitted to search for other flights and are not prohibited from booking tickets for a better flight than the one provided.

" Although he praised the booking of the event saying that, " they made all the right moves booking-wise, so while the matches weren't great, they still have a certain historic value.

Brighton Beach is the only premium station still to have an active old booking office and toilets.

Mary Ann was still managing Lotta's affairs: booking plays, finding locations, and organizing troupes of actors.

There is now no industry standard with regard to airline booking codes, although the Y code is almost always still used for unrestricted economy travel.

Despite a partial rebuilding in 1890 the original MKR building is still in use as the main station offices and booking hall.

Today the old booking office and parcel office is occupied by a small newsagents, and the remaining station facilities are disused ; but the main access to the trains is still via the octagonal booking hall.

His mother said he used to make up matches and booking sheets while he was still in school.

Unlike most other booking sites, Opodo's site still quotes headline prices including all taxes.

That night at the restaurant, the head waiter ( John Le Mesurier ) cannot find Palfrey's booking at first ; he does finally locate it under a slightly different name, but still refuses to seat them, as they are late.

Crutey runs the " Saltar Hype " booking agency out of Melbourne, and still plays in different projects ( one with Ben Brennan ) as well as appearing with Ox in " The Ox and The Fury.

Nor did the Reservisor really change the way the reservations system worked ; ticket agents still had to call central booking and talk ( typically through an intermediary ) to a Reservisor operator to answer queries.

< sup > 2 </ sup > From July 18, 2011 when Triple H became the WWE's Chief Operating Officer, the Anonymous General Manager had not appeared and used any booking power on Raw, but the General Manager's podium still appeared on Raw every week until Hell in a Cell on October 2, 2011.

The booking office with ticket windows is intact and old timetables and signs are still on the wall.

The station's main building, which still stands today – though no longer part of the present station – comprised a booking office, waiting room, and station master's house.