On the ground floor the radiation would be about half what it is outside.

The best protection would be on the ground floor in the central part of the house.

The central area of the ground floor of a heavily constructed apartment building, with concrete floors, should provide more fallout protection than the ordinary basement of a family dwelling.

You then descended one story, glommed a television set from the music room -- the only constructive feature of your visit, by the way -- and, returning to the ground floor, entered the master bedroom.

Various of the apartments are of the terrace type, being on the ground floor so that entrance is direct.

The name Ardipithecus ramidus stems mostly from the Afar language, in which Ardi means " ground / floor " ( borrowed from the Semitic root in either Amharic or Arabic ) and ramid means " root ".

The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.

The lower ground floor with the main floor and two first-floor galleries are contained in a structure of Montjuïc sandstone with undulating lines.

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room consisting of half the ground floor which was shared with the neighboring weaver's family.

The main body of GC & CS, including its Naval, Military and Air Sections, was on the ground floor of the mansion, together with a telephone exchange, a teleprinter room, a kitchen and a dining room.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

The World Financial Center's ground floor and portions of the second floor are occupied by a mall ; its center point is a steel-and-glass atrium known as the Winter Garden.

On the islands of Orkney and Shetland there are very few cells at ground floor.

The King's Library, on the ground floor of the East Wing, was handed over in 1827, and was described as one of the finest rooms in London although it was not fully open to the general public until 1857, however, special openings were arranged during The Great Exhibition of 1851.

This means that the Doric order was the order of the ground floor, the Ionic order was used for the middle story, while the Corinthian or the Composite order was used for the top story.

The St-Gervais-et-St-Protais Church in Paris presents columns of the three orders: doric at the ground floor, ionic at the second floor, corinthian at the third floor

In order to reduce large shear reversals in the core walls in the basement, and at the top of the tower base level, the ground floor, basement levels 1 and 2 and the 5th and 6th floors, the floor slabs and beams are separated horizontally from the core walls.

Egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them without damaging any eggs which originated in Germany.

British Club in Kathar ( in Orwell's time, it occupied only the ground floor )

The ground floor includes a buffet style restaurant named the Bistro, the campus radio station WGMU Radio, a coffee shop named Jazzman's, 300-seat movie theater, and Dewberry Hall.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

It is a barely controlled skimming of the ground.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

This monitoring is necessary because, on a parade ground, everyone can hear too much, and without monitoring a confused social event would develop.

With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

But when these expectations are once too often ground into the dust, innocence can falter, since its strength is according to the strength of him who possesses it.

A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

Baker took the plan to Wilson who said: `` Baker, this is plainly right on any ground.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

The safest place is the basement corner least exposed to windows and deepest below ground.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

When the therapist came to feel on sufficiently sure ground with him to ask him, `` What is that, Bill -- hello or farewell ''??

What then is the status of such questions as: is society the ground of human existence or a means to an individual goal??

Angkorian builders used laterite, a clay that is soft when taken from the ground but that hardens when exposed to the sun, for foundations and other hidden parts of buildings.

During a subsequent German investigation, an officer identified as “ Sniper No. 2 ” stated: “ I am of the opinion that I am not a sharpshooter .” The five snipers were deployed around the airport — three on the roof of the control tower, one hidden behind a service truck and one behind a small signal tower at ground level — but none of them had any special training.

Operating close to shore in conjunction with ground based air cover and radars, and in the case of the Norwegian navy hidden bases cut into Fjord sides, torpedo boats remained a cheap and viable deterrent to amphibious attack.

The dead would then arrive in Valhalla with everything that one had on their pyre, and whatever one had hidden in the ground.

When hunting, large eared foxes such as the fennec, or the bat-eared fox, can seem to stare at the ground while they rotate their heads from side to side to pinpoint the location of prey, either underground or hidden above ground.

In its entirety, however, the above ground portion of the Western Wall stretches for, most of which is hidden behind residential structures built along its length.

But by then the panels had been removed from the frame and hidden, with the guards, on the narrow spiral staircase up the tower, with a locked door at ground level.

By sniffing out the right spots and performing a ground pound, Yoshi may uncover hidden melons and coins that will aid in boosting the player's score.

Since the spent cartridge has to be manually removed instead of automatically ejected, it helps a sniper remain better hidden, since not only is the cartridge not flung into the air and to the ground, possibly giving away the sniper's position, but the cartridge can be removed when most prudent, allowing the sniper to remain still until reloading is tactically feasible.

He made hoes to dig the ground, capturing his brothers Rongo and Haumia-tiketike where they have hidden from Tāwhirimātea in the bosom of the earth mother and, recognising them by their long hair that remains above the surface of the earth, he drags them forth and heaps them into baskets to be eaten.

Because of this he was subjected to the fury of his brother Tāwhirimātea, god of winds and storms, who would have killed him if their mother had not hidden him in her body, that is, in the ground.

The ability to find hidden items in the ground was also removed.

To the north of the present High Street an area of open ground called Castle Park preserves almost exactly the hidden perimeter of an iron age promontory fort.

The wild hop scrub grew thickly, and the hidden ground was full

On the ground itself, minefields have been used as hidden defences in modern warfare, often remaining long after the wars that have produced them have ended.

Breeding takes place between April and June, with the nest being constructed on the ground and hidden amongst vegetation in a dry location, often some distance from water.

Later, during the fast construction phase in the 90's, this led to halts on building sites, as thud aerial bombs were discovered hidden in the ground.

It is in this genus that the terrestrial feeding technique of open-bill probing is most advanced ; the technique involves prying into the ground by inserting and opening the bill as a way of searching for hidden food items.

The nest, well hidden in the grass, is built in a scrape or hollow in the ground.

The Eurasian Skylark makes a grass nest on the ground, hidden amongst vegetation.

The nest is on the ground hidden in dense vegetation, with 2 – 7 ( most often 3 – 5 ) eggs ; the eggs hatch after 11 – 15 days, with the chicks fledging 10 – 14 days after hatching.

JetBlue emphasizes a secondary slogan “ If you wouldn ’ t take it on the ground, don ’ t take it in the air ” poking fun at competitors with hidden fees, little or no amenities, and what JetBlue considers an unacceptable level of customer service.

Clandestine prophets and their armed followers were hidden in houses and caves in the mountains ; Protestants were arrested, deported to America, sentenced to the galleys ; entire villages were massacred and burnt to the ground in a series of stunning atrocities.