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Some are shaped like golf balls, some are shaped like pencils .… Now my main subject is the evolution of form, and the problem of how it is that you can get this diversity amid so little genetic difference, so far as we can tell, is a very interesting one.
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Some of us might be inclined to argue, in fact, that an independence of mind and action and an intolerance of regimentation, either mental or physical, are particularly Southern traits.
Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.
Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.
Some accounts are quite lengthy but Florida's is the shortest of all, requiring only four paragraphs.
Some plant-location specialists take these signs to mean St. Louis county doesn't want industry, and so they avoid the area, and more jobs are lost.
Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.
Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.
Some 45 frequencies are assigned for use primarily by dominant Class 1, -- A or Class 1, -- B clear-channel stations, designed to operate with adequate power and to provide service -- both groundwave and ( at night ) skywave -- over large areas and at great distances, being protected against interference to the degree necessary to achieve this objective.
Some of them are obvious, such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings.
Some general things to look for in a site, if you haven't already bought one, are accessibility, water drainage, and orientation.
Some distribution costs are kept up by competitive pressure, some by the fact that the customers have come to expect certain niceties and flourishes.
( Some suspensions break up before they are near to the direction of shear, and some become asymptotic to it without breakup.
Some experiments are composed of repetitions of independent trials, each with two possible outcomes.
Some phonetic features, for example glottal catch or murmur, are sometimes to be assigned to segmental phonemics and sometimes to accentual systems.
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Some horseshoers will rasp the hoof down to fit an improperly shaped or too-small size of shoe, which is damaging to the movement of the horse and can damage the hoof itself if trimmed or rasped too short.
Some think that there are some qualities of language acquisition that the human brain is automatically wired for ( a " nature " component ) and some that are shaped by the particular language environment in which a person is raised ( a " nurture " component ).
* Some scholars hold that the Mishnah and Talmud have been extensively shaped by later editorial redaction, but that it contains sources which we can identify and describe with some level of reliability.
Some modern anti-tank rockets ( RPG-27, RPG-29 ) and missiles ( TOW 2B, ERYX, HOT, MILAN ) use a tandem warhead shaped charge, consisting of two separate shaped charges, one in front of the other, typically with some distance between them.
Some are straight with a " Joint " ( Sandblasted top part of stem, usually about 1 inch long, and all the way around, tapered or cone shaped, so the tapered, or " cone shaped " bowl will fit in ) some are bent to resemble a crane.
Some materials that prove difficult to shape with other processes, such as fiber-glass, Kevlar, and graphite, can be shaped and finished neatly via various routing techniques.
Some plastics have a greater index of refraction than most types of glass ; this is useful in the making of corrective lenses shaped to correct various vision abnormalities such as myopia, allowing thinner lenses for a given prescription.
Some canoes are made with squared sterns — " Y ", " V ", or " U " shaped — in order to permit the mounting of outboard motors.
Some species have linear to lanceolate shaped leaves, and others have elliptic-to ovate-shaped leaves ; often the leaves decrease in size as they progress up the stems.
Some anti-armor weapons incorporate a variant on the shaped charge concept that, depending on the source, can be called a Explosively Formed Penetrator ( EFP ), Self Forging Fragment ( SFF ), SElf FOrging Projectile ( SEFOP ), plate charge, or Misznay Schardin ( MS ) charge.
Some circuits and elements exhibiting negative resistance can also act in a similar way: negative impedance converters ( NIC ), neon lamps, tunnel diodes ( e. g., a diode with an " N "- shaped current – voltage characteristic in the first quadrant ), etc.
Some historians speculate that Wilkes ' obsessive behavior and harsh code of shipboard discipline shaped Herman Melville's characterization of Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick.
Some art and science museums have special devices on display that use magnets to make ferrofluids move around specially shaped surfaces in a fountain show-like fashion to entertain guests.
Some were shaped from hollowed bones, left tubular, presumably so that the cord could be drawn through the centre hole.
Some have been attributed to pre-human hominines applying significance to pleasingly shaped natural objects such as the Makapansgat pebble, as well as to later societies.
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