I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.

They advanced in a line across the entrance hall to the stairway and up, with gingerly steps, towards the first landing.

Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.

We observe first that no line, l, can meet its image except at one of its intersections with Q.

To do this we must first show that every line which meets **zg in a point P meets its image at P.

The first possibility requires that there be a line through P which meets **zg in Af points ; ;

In the first case the fixed elements within each pencil are the multiple secant and the line joining the vertex, P, to the intersection of **zg and the plane of the pencil which does not lie on the multiple secant.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

This reduces to the relationship: Af, where Af is the intercept at zero thickness of the extrapolation of the slope indicated in eqn. ( 1 ), Af is the thickness of the coating equivalent to the rounding off of the knife tip, Af is a straight line first approximation of this roundness, and the other symbols are equivalent to those of eqn. ( 1 ).

And while no one expects total democracy on the academic scene, the scholar will be particularly sensitive to a line between first and second class citizenship drawn on any basis other than that of academic rank or professional achievement.

Tadpoles have cartilaginous skeletons, gills for respiration ( external gills at first, internal gills later ), lateral line systems and large tails which they use for swimming.

At first they feed on the yolks of the eggs but as this source of nourishment declines they begin to rasp at the ciliated epithelial cells that line the oviduct.

The first line of defence in salamanders and frogs is the mucous secretion that they produce.

The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

Henry Ford was the first to master the moving assembly line and was able to improve other aspects of industry by doing so ( such as reducing labor hours required to produce a single vehicle, and increased production numbers and parts ).

Ford was the first company to build large factories around the assembly line concept.

Assuming no loss of time when moving a car from one station to another, the longest stage on the assembly line determines the throughput ( 20 minutes for the engine installation ) so a car can be produced every 20 minutes, once the first car taking 35 minutes has been produced.

Then, taking in on the first cable as the boat is motored into the wind and letting slack while drifting back, a second anchor is set approximately a half-scope away from the first on a line perpendicular to the wind.

Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and " Amazing Grace " appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title ; hymns were typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as " New Britain ".

The language of the poem is typically direct and concise and comprises short sentences-the first line is in fact a model of condensed meaning, comprising an exhortation (" Let's drink!

Exactly at the head of the gulf the great peak of the Cameroon, on a line of volcanic action continued by the islands to the south-west, has a height of, while Clarence Peak, in Fernando Po, the first of the line of islands, rises to over.

As the mother of an autistic child who is lacking in interest and enthusiasm about almost anything, I have to manipulate my son's fingers for him when he first plays with a new toy.

In the first of these the toy bears were made to move, apparently on their own, and in the latter film building tools were made to perform construction tasks without human intervention, by using frame-by-frame animation.

Soon after, Jim Rohrrsen, the proprietor of a local toy store, became the first retailer to sign-up to accept Ithaca HOURS in exchange for merchandise.

It was the first toy ever advertised on television.

The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for The Humpty Dumpty Circus ( 1897 ), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life.

2000 KW Curtis steam turbine circa 1905. The first device that may be classified as a reaction steam turbine was little more than a toy, the classic Aeolipile, described in the 1st century by Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria in Roman Egypt.

Alkon later qualifies this by writing, " It would be stretching our generosity to praise Madden for being the first to show a traveler arriving from the future ", but also says that Madden " deserves recognition as the first to toy with the rich idea of time-travel in the form of an artifact sent backwards from the future to be discovered in the present.

Playmates and their team essentially served as associate producers and contributing writers to the miniseries that was first launched to sell-in the toy action figures.

At first Miffy looked like a toy animal, with floppy ears, but by 1963 she looked the way we see Miffy today.

Pachinko machines were first built during the 1920s as a children's toy called the, based on and named after the American " Corinthian bagatelle ".

Shooter wrote the first issue of Captain Action ( Oct .- Nov. 1968 ), which was DC's first toy tie-in.

* Christmas Crunch: A special edition named Christmas Crunch was first released for the 1988 holiday season and contained Cap ’ n Crunch with red and green Crunch Berries in a green box with the Cap ’ n wearing a Santa Claus hat ( originally also containing a toy or Christmas tree ornament inside the box ).

, or " Bow-Lingual " as the North American version is spelled, is a computer-based dog-to-human language translation device developed by Japanese toy company Takara and first sold in Japan in 2002.

The film follows Kaspar Hauser ( Bruno Schleinstein ), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

James L. Haven and Charles Hettrick of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, received a United States patent, the first from a Filipino, on "... an improved construction of the toy, commonly called a bandelore ..." in 1866.

This is the first — and only — toy museum in the world that ’ s completely devoted to aviation-related toys.

A year later, the first popular toy was mass produced clay marbles made by Samuel C. Dyke at his shop where Lock 3 Park is now located.

This toy ultimately became the first of the 1-75 miniature range ; a dump truck and a cement mixer completed the original three-model release that marked the starting point of the mass-market success story of the Matchbox series.

Its earliest use in Europe dates back to the 19th century in Budrio, a town near Bologna, Italy, where Giuseppe Donati transformed the ocarina from a toy, which only played a few notes, into a more comprehensive instrument ( known as the first " classical " ocarinas ).

In 2000, the development toward safe and nontoxic sex toys in the United States began with sexual health pioneers such as Lisa S. Lawless, Ph. D. who founded one of the first retail sex toy stores ( Holistic Wisdom ) to carry only nontoxic sex toys.

The origin of the word " toy " is unknown, but it is believed that it was first used in the 14th century.

It could be tempting to think of O and E as a Beckettian Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – indeed in notes for the first draft Beckett did toy “ with the idea of making ‘ E tall ’ and ‘ O short ( and ) fat ’ which corresponds with the dual physique of Jekyll and Hyde ” – but Film is not concerned with representations of good and evil, only with the concept of the second self, of pursuer and pursued .”

Although this would be the end of Megatron in the U. S. animated series, he would make several more appearances in the animated segments of various Transformers toy commercials, where he was depicted as an Action Master, and eventually a CGI sequence of him in his first Generation 2 form and Combat Hero forms.