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Mr. George Hough ( Oct. 30 ) sounds like a business man who waits until the last minute to leave his home or shop.
The wash wheel rotates at a speed of 30 revolutions per minute, making five to ten revolutions before reversing.
Operators had to maintain a steady rhythm, and the usual speed of operation was 30 words per minute.
However, printers are generally slow devices ( 30 pages per minute is considered fast, and many inexpensive consumer printers are far slower than that ), and the cost per page is actually relatively high.
They practice hard for them and come up with a 2 minute 30 second routine to show off at the competitions.
Operators had to maintain a steady rhythm, and the usual speed of operation was 30 words per minute.
The game time is divided into two equal halves of 35 minutes each, with 5-10 minutes for half-time, although at local and regional level, games may be reduced to 25 to 30 minute halves to ease turf availability constraints.
The book has also been adapted into a 4 hour 30 minute long audiobook.
If SMS over GPRS is used, an SMS transmission speed of about 30 SMS messages per minute may be achieved.
In the team's final game of the regular season against the Atlanta Falcons, needing a win to earn a playoff berth, the Jaguars caught a bit of luck when Morten Andersen missed a 30 yard field goal with less than a minute remaining that would have given the Falcons the lead.
HBO also had a 30 minute program of music videos, called Video Jukebox, that first aired around the time of MTV's launch and would last until late 1986.
At the end of each 7 minute chukka, play continues for an additional 30 seconds or until a stoppage in play, whichever comes first.
The P51 Mustang was the subject of a 30 minute episode entitled " The Cadillac of the Skies " in reference to its exceptional performance and how it started off as a British purchase as a low level attack fighter into the powerful long range bomber escort that it would eventually become in the Air War in Europe through a combination of being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the fitting drop tanks that allowed to escort the bombers of the United States 8th Air Force all the way into occupied Europe and back.
The classic video in this genre was done by the artist duo Peter Fischli & David Weiss in 1987 with their 30 minute video " Der Lauf der Dinge " or " The Way Things Go ".
" The last few years I had been complaining about that fact that there weren ’ t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for “ Friday Night Girls " ... I wanted to write a three minute song with every Sex and the City episode that had ever existed, so I did.
They required operators and towers every 30 km ( 20 mi ), and could only accommodate about two words per minute.
In 1987, the CBC Radio anthology program Vanishing Point adapted The Dispossessed into a series of six 30 minute episodes, and at an unspecified date The Word for World Is Forest as a series of three 30 minute episodes.
Stenographers and telegraphers could take down information at rates up to 130 words per minute, whereas a writer with a pen was limited to a maximum of 30 words per minute ( the 1853 speed record ).
The largest power supply can deliver 75 megawatts ( MW ) for a 30 minute duration or 150 MW for a 15 second duration.
One commercial high speed ink jet printer can print on 30 inch wide web at 200 meters / minute .< REF name =" Auto5I-6 "/>
Although earlier BBC radio shows such as Much Binding in the Marsh, Take It From Here and Beyond Our Ken had conditioned listeners to a mix of music, sketches and jokes within a 30 minute show, and Round the Horne was also doing this, ISIRTA ( as it was known to its friends ) accelerated the transitions, and it certainly seemed more improvised.

30 and late
From the dry ground in late summer ( August in zone 7 ) each bulb produces one or two leafless stems 30 – 60 cm tall, each of which bears a cluster of 2 to 12 funnel-shaped flowers at their tops.
The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.
Bulgaria's total military personnel as of late 2010 is 34, 500, of which 30, 400 ( 88. 1 %) are active military personnel and 4, 100 ( 11. 9 %) are civilian personnel.
Each team is allowed one timeout of 30 seconds ( which is often used late in matches ).
In St Andrews, some of the students gather on the beach late on April 30 and run into the North Sea at sunrise on May Day, occasionally naked.
In the late 19th century, many navies started to build torpedo boats 30 to 50 m in length, armed with up to three torpedo launchers and small guns.
Not allowed to return unsold papers, the newsboys typically earned around 30 cents a day and often worked until very late at night.
Hippopotamus amphibius was widespread in North Africa and Europe during the Eemian and late Pleistocene until about 30, 000 years ago.
Fossil records of crayfish older than 30 million years are rare, but fossilised burrows have been found from strata as old as the late Palaeozoic or early Mesozoic.
* Mani, a sage from Persia, dies at Gundeshapur after 30 years of preaching his " heresy " at the court of the late Sassanian king Shapur I and on long journeys to Khorasan, India and China.
One and a half hours of late night programming is offered on Saturdays from 11: 00 pm to 12: 30 am Weekend daytime programming consists of the infomercial block Weekend Marketplace ( Saturdays from 10: 00 am to noon ) and the hour-long political news program Fox News Sunday ( time slot may vary ).
The French had already conducted extensive experiments with solar Montgolfieres, performing over 30 flights from the late 1970s into the early 1990s.
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair ( born 30 July 1940 ) is an English entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Corps had been reduced to approximately 6, 000 – 7, 000 men, 20 – 30 % of its original strength in the course of continuous action since late June including in the Falaise pocket ; losses in officers and NCOs had been especially high.
This can be seen in the number of exam takers for the low-level prefectural exams rising from 30, 000 annual candidates in the early 11th century to 400, 000 candidates by the late 13th century.
Main differences from the London system include ex post invoicing ( with financial incentives / penalties for early / late payment ), prepayments not day-specific, hourly instead of daily rates, a maximum daily charge ( 8 hours ), free dashes ( free if duration under 30 minutes ), defined free access periods for delivery and service vehicles.
As a result, the party ran behind schedule, reaching Surgut on 30 May and Makovsk in late June before entering Yeniseysk, where the additional men could be taken on ; Bering would later claim that " few were suitable ".
Francesco Zuccarelli ( 15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788 ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period.
30 species of butterflies have been recorded on Minorca and most are on the wing from March to late September.
* Eureka, Arizona, late 19th century ghost town 30 miles north of Yuma on the Colorado River
L / 16 eventually landed, 30 minutes late, to the left of Fox Green, taking casualties as the boats ran in and more as they crossed the 200 yards ( 180 m ) of beach.
The first battalion to land, 2 / 18, arrived at the E-1 draw 30 minutes late after a difficult passage through the congestion off shore.
Until the 1990s, there was a 30 million year gap in the fossil record between the late Devonian tetrapods and the reappearance of tetrapod fossils in recognizable mid-Carboniferous amphibian lineages.

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