Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

The velocity of the craft steadily decreased, as Apollo 16 had not yet reached the lunar sphere of gravitational influence.

Until the Ford era cars had been produced by hand coachbuilding craft methods, such as the English wheel.

In 1990, Bulgaria had a total of more than 2, 400 tanks, 2, 000 armored vehicles, 2, 500 large caliber artillery systems, 300 fighter and bomber aircraft, 100 trainer aircraft, more than 40 combat and 40 transport helicopters, 4 submarine, 6 fast missile craft, 2 frigates, 5 corvettes, 6 torpedo boats, 9 patrol craft, 30 minesweepers and 21 transport vessels.

Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic movement that had been going on at least since 1907 when van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial prototypes.

Georges Dumézil in his controversial trifunctional hypothesis proposed that ancient societies had three main classes each with distinct functions: the first judicial and priestly ; the second connected with the military and war, while the third class focussed on production, agriculture, craft and commerce.

However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

In the Early Middle Ages, most of the Roman craft organizations, originally formed as religious confraternities, had disappeared, with the apparent exceptions of stonecutters and perhaps glassmakers.

Each member of the Society had a job in a certain craft or trade.

They lost many craft unionists that year to the rival Railroad brotherhoods and the new American Federation of Labor, which had more conservative reputations.

By the 8th century first Iranians and then Arabs had imported the craft of papermaking from China, with a paper mill already at work in Baghdad in 794.

While the ports of Burlington, Vermont ; Port Henry, New York ; and Plattsburgh, New York are little used nowadays except by small craft, ferries and lake cruise ships, they had substantial commercial and military importance in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Germans had no specialised landing craft, and had to rely primarily on river barges to lift troops and supplies for the landing.

The Navy had taken some small steps in remedying the landing craft situation with construction of the Pionierlandungsboot 39 ( Engineer Landing Boat 39 ), a self-propelled shallow-draft vessel which could carry 45 infantrymen, two light vehicles or 20 tons of cargo and land on an open beach, unloading via a pair of clamshell doors at the bow.

By mid-August, 18 of these craft, designated Type AS, had been converted and another 5 were ordered on 30 September.

The Luftwaffe had formed its own special command ( Sonderkommando ) under Major Fritz Siebel to investigate the production of landing craft for Sea Lion.

On December 30, twenty opposition political parties issued a statement through spokesman Chistope Ngokaka, saying Sassou's government had purchased " weapons and military craft ... under contracts signed between the officials in Brazzaville and the government in Beijing.

But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.

La Forge once impressed Captain Jean-Luc Picard by staying up all night to fix a shuttle craft that Picard mentioned had a superficial problem.

The navy had two 70-ton, 75-foot, coastal patrol craft, Kadir ( 129 ) and Karari ( 130 ), both transferred from the Iranian Coast Guard to Sudan in 1975, as well as sixteen inshore patrol craft and two supply ships.

Fees are not the same and some states do not require certain craft, such as sailboats with no power, to be registered at all.

Lis Paludan theorizes that crochet evolved from traditional practices in Arabia, South America, or China, but there is no decisive evidence of the craft being performed before its popularity in Europe during the 19th century.

Moller has been developing VTOL craft since the late 1960s, but no Moller vehicle has ever achieved free flight out of ground effect.

The lifting force eventually balances with the weight of the craft, reaching a point where the hydrofoil no longer lifts out of the water, but remains in equilibrium.

Hydrofoils are still considered exotic by many commercial operators of high-speed craft and many will not take the risk of trying such exotic vessels when they have no experience operating them.

When she could keep him hidden no longer, rather than deliver him to be killed, she set him adrift on the Nile River in a small craft of bulrushes coated in pitch.

Fully recoverable SSTO craft can be flown on short test missions, and developed incrementally, since no hardware is expended in test flights.

One advantage of magnetic or solar sails over ( chemical or ion ) reaction thrusters is that no reaction mass is depleted or carried in the craft.

Finally, " science ", " art " and " craft ", being leaves, are ancestors of no other node.

And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death ; for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth.

There is no speed limit on the Tideway downstream of Wandsworth Bridge, although boats are not allowed to create undue wash. Upstream of Wandsworth Bridge a speed limit is in force for powered craft to protect the riverbank environment and to provide safe conditions for rowers and other river users.

Delayed by the weather and attempting to avoid the landing craft as they ran in, the bombers had laid their ordnance too far inland, having no real effect on the coastal defenses.

At 1: 27am Washington time, Herrick sent a cable in which he acknowledged the attack may not have happened and that there may actually have been no Vietnamese craft in the area: " Review of action makes many reported contacts and torpedoes fired appear doubtful.

A leading opponent was Avicenna ( Ibn Sina ), who discredited the theory of transmutation of substances, stating, " Those of the chemical craft know well that no change can be effected in the different species of substances, though they can produce the appearance of such change.

The craft was therefore put into standby mode, with no possibility to communicate, flying on batteries that were originally not designed for this task.

As the aircraft increases speed the shock cone gets tighter around the craft and becomes weaker to the point that at very high speeds and altitudes no boom is heard.

It occurred to him that if the entire craft were lifted from the water, the craft would effectively have no drag.

This was because there was no internal tunnel between the two craft as found on the American Apollo CSM and LM.

But the failures of Salyut 2 and Cosmos 557 in the months previous meant there was no station for the craft to dock to.

Although unnavigable by larger craft such as barges or ferries, the river was widely used for transportation by small boats, because the rugged surrounding terrain had no major roads or paths.

The Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) and the communists no longer being a force in the labor movement, the conservative American Federation of Labor, which organized along craft union lines and which preached labor / capital cooperation, dominated the U. S. labor movement until the 1930s.

The obstacles that Hoover did not comprehend, Ching recorded in his memoir, were that Gompers had no standing in the affairs of any company except to the extent that AFL unions had organized the workers, and that the federation's focus on craft unionism precluded any effective organization of the mass-production industries by AFL's affiliates.