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It squatted low and square upon the sidewalk with a heavy iron grating supporting a glass facade.
Flint glassware with heavy lead content, produced by that company, is prized by antique glass collectors.
The principal industries are heavy and general machine-building, iron and steel production, metalworking, chemical production, electronics, transportation equipment, textiles, glass, brewing, china, ceramics, and pharmaceuticals.
The CRT uses an evacuated glass envelope which is large, deep ( i. e. long from front screen face to rear end ), fairly heavy, and relatively fragile.
A cartoon ( from the Italian " cartone " and Dutch word " karton ", meaning strong, heavy paper or pasteboard ) is a full-size drawing made on sturdy paper as a study or modello for a painting, stained glass or tapestry.
I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added .</ p >
* Lanthanum fluoride ( LaF < sub > 3 </ sub >) is an essential component of a heavy fluoride glass named ZBLAN.
# The so-called ' roll-to-roll '- deposition on flexible sheets is much easier to realize in terms of technological effort than deposition on fragile and heavy glass sheets.
In 1989, Terrie Lambert invented the Moonshine ( ceramic ) slide that produces a timbre in between that of brass and glass, and the Mudslide ( porcelain ) slide, which just as brass slides is quite heavy, producing richer, fuller and resonating tones with more harmonics.
Muybridge took enormous physical risks to make his photographs, using a heavy view camera and stacks of glass plate negatives.
These lenses were made from heavy blown glass and were 18 – 21mm in diameter.
His glass is distinguished by the finesse of its drawing, unusual in the medium, his use of rich colours ( inspired by an early visit to see the stained glass of the Cathedral of Chartres, he was especially fond of deep blues ), and an innovative integration of the window leading as part of the overall design ( his use of heavy lines in his black and white book illustrations is probably derived from his glass techniques ).
Eventually glass and tin containers were favored over the heavy crockery thus ending the era of an industry noted for fine quality and craftsmanship.
Prior to Perspex becoming available in 1933, windows were either safety glass, which was heavy, or cellulose nitrate ( i. e.: guncotton ) which yellowed quickly and was extremely flammable.
He and his students allowed themselves to be smashed in the chest with heavy metal pendulums, impacted in the face by pneumatically driven rotary hammers, and sprayed with shattered glass to simulate window implosion.
The arc flash in an electrical fault produces the same type of light radiation from which electric welders protect themselves using face shields with dark glass, heavy leather gloves, and full-coverage clothing.
His early work was executed using clear glass decorated with enamel, but he soon turned to an original style featuring heavy, opaque glass carved or etched with plant motifs, often in two or more colours as cameo glass.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the decline of the industries ( glass manufacturing, brick production, mining and agriculture used to be presented in the town's coat of arms ) caused heavy unemployment.
“ Superwindows ,” mentioned in Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, became available in the 1980s and use a combination of many available technologies, including two to three transparent low-e coatings, multiple panes of glass, and a heavy gas filling.
It is made of heavy glass.

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their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).
A workbench had a heavy top and sturdy legs, but how did you attach sturdy legs to a heavy top so that the whole thing didn't wobble like a newborn calf and ultimately collapse when you leaned on it??
It didn't take Captain Chandler long to realize that he had to carry a heavy load of tradition on his shoulders as commander of Troop Aj.
Argentine boxer Carlos Monzon, who didn't have a clear diction, had his voice dubbed by a professional actor when he played the lead in the drama La Mary, and Gert Frobe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film of that name ( Goldfinger ) was because of his heavy German accent dubbed by Michael Collins.
The last barber among his people was counselled to whisper the heavy secret into a well after sundown, but he didn't cover the well afterwards.
Lack's crystal didn't need the heavy accessories previous crystal used, facilitating its use on aircraft.
In practice, this didn't work well, and some claimed that this thin chrome layer was quickly polished off in heavy use.
The Globe and Mail opined that the intelligence analysts ' heavy reliance on Ressam's confessions was due to a desire to have all the unclassified allegations against Abu Zubeida based on evidence that clearly didn't rely on torture.
A second version was manufactured from cast bronze, making it heavy: " You really didn't want to have to handle it ," Campbell said.
' You know, it didn't sound too heavy and I mentioned to like Tom or Jeff or somebody like, ' You know you guys should consider ... maybe consider doing like big gang vocals on that, make it sound evil like demons and stuff ,' and they were like ' Good idea.
" Big Long Now " was omitted from the album because vocalist / guitarist Kurt Cobain felt " there was already enough slow heavy stuff on Bleach, and he ' didn't want that song to go out '", according to Endino.
The Convertible was heavy, not much faster than the Portable it replaced ( despite the newer CMOS processor and use of static RAM ), didn't come with traditional PC expansion ports ( such as serial ports and a parallel port ) without an add-on, and had a hard-to-read, oddly-shaped LCD screen ( the first screens lacked a backlight ).
However, after several rehearsals King believed " things didn't pan out " with heavy metal covers, so the band decided to cover punk songs.
Upon return to Sveaborg to repair and resupply of Duke Charles fleet Swedes noticed that Sveaborg had been stocked only with coastal fleet in mind which amongst other things meant that it didn't store ammunition for the heavy cannons of the open sea fleet and lacked suitable stocks of equipment required to repair large sailing ships.
In others, the dragon king simply believed that it was too heavy to use as a weapon and didn't expect him to take it.
The main concern was that an early exit in the knockout format of the FA cup could leave clubs with no matches for almost a year ; not only could they suffer heavy financial losses, but fans didn't often stick around for that long without a game, when other teams were playing.
In 1977, during the recording of The Clash, he received a black Rickenbacker from Patti Smith, which he also decorated in paint, but he didn't quite like the sound of it as it sounded too thin, and he also thought it was too lightweight ( he's stated that he prefers heavy basses, as they seem more resonant and robust ).
His years of heavy work have given him amazing strength and a very muscular physique, which has been observed many times ; for example, he rescues Bart from a marauding Alaskan timber wolf by wrestling the wolf into submission, and is also shown when Homer, upset over Bart falling in a well, hits the last straw when Bart starts to cry and begins to dig a hole to rescue him, and Willie seeing this mutters " Why didn't I think of that?
It showed we didn't necessarily have to be playing at warp drive and have gory lyrics to be heavy.
The label also didn't experience heavy sales with albums by Angel who were introduced to the label by Kiss's Gene Simmons, although that glam rock band did amass a cult following.
Although German rock music ( Deutschrock ) didn't come into its own until the late 1960s, it spawned many innovative and influential bands spanning genres such as krautrock, New Wave, heavy metal, punk, and industrial.
While Beard won the primary, he was a heavy underdog against Sasser from the beginning ( even though Ronald Reagan had carried Tennessee two years before ), and his television ads didn't help the cause.
However Aloisi didn't perform well at all during the season, and came under heavy fire, along with manager Kosmina, whose tactics were seen as controversial, and his relationship with the media, often becoming angry and frustrated didn't help causes either, many players fell out of favour with the coach, including Steve Corica and Clint Bolton and for the first time in the clubs history, they failed to make the play-offs.

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