For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

This is possible with water and other liquids that have a high surface tension.

However, Af adsorbs water from the atmosphere and this may account for the low chromium analysis and high total weight loss.

The best chance, of course, is offered by gently sloping terrain where the water remains close to the surface and where the air is dry, so that a high evaporation leaves salty deposits which permit only sparse plant growth.

The seemingly quiet ocean had crashed a wall of water from 10 to 100 feet high upon beaches crowded with bathers, drowning thousands of them and flattening villages along the shore.

The `` peacock tail '' nozzle throws a giant fan of water 100 feet wide and 40 feet high.

He went through a gate to stand at the edge of the water and gazed at the two thin falls which dropped from large spigots high at the back of the pool.

Because oxygen concentration in the water increases at both low temperatures and high flow rates, aquatic amphibians in these situations can rely primarily on cutaneous respiration, as in the Titicaca water frog and the hellbender salamander.

The water table in this region was very high, and replenished regularly — by winter storms in the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates from October to March, and from snow-melt from March to July.

Such repair work, a reduction in height, and unusually high snowmelt and heavy spring rains combined to cause the dam to give way on May 31, 1889 resulting in twenty million tons of water to sweep down the valley causing the Johnstown Flood.

Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.

Consumed countrywide, this product features a peculiarity of its own in this area: it is not only prepared with hot water, but, driven by the region's high temperatures, it is common to see it prepared with cold water as well, in which case the beverage is known as tereré.

Applications with high water temperatures, chlorides present or deviating water qualities ( soft water ) play a role.

In structural applications, high flexural rigidity, thermal stability, thermal conductivity and low density ( 1. 85 times that of water ) make beryllium a quality aerospace material for high-speed aircraft, missiles, space vehicles and communication satellites.

Currently the Black Sea water level is relatively high, thus water is being exchanged with the Mediterranean.

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

Some common examples are the high electrical conductivity of pure copper, the excellent deep drawing qualities of cartridge case brass, the low-friction properties of bearing bronze, the resonant qualities of bell bronze, and the resistance to corrosion by sea water of several bronze alloys.

Lara holds several world records for high scoring.

Another ancillary, the Academy of Home Education, is a " service organization for homeschooling families ," that maintains student records, administers achievement testing, and issues high school diplomas.

Graduating high school students with Ivy League caliber academic records have given the Honors College a closer look as a result, and this has had a trickle-down effect in improving the image of CUNY as a whole, which prior to the inception of the HC had been criticized as ' an institution adrift ' by the Giuliani administration.

In the 1950s, the term high fidelity began to be used by audio manufacturers as a marketing term to describe records and equipment which were intended to provide faithful sound reproduction.

While some consumers simply interpreted high fidelity as fancy and expensive equipment, many found the difference in quality between " hi-fi " and the then standard AM radios and 78 rpm records readily apparent and bought 33⅓ LPs, such as RCA's New Orthophonics and London's ffrrs, and high-fidelity phonographs.

In the fall of 2006, researchers developed and installed an " autonomous observatory " using robotic video cameras with image processing software that detects and records high resolution video of birds in flight inside a high probability zone in the Cache River area.

* 1960 – Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School ( West Virginia )

Many of their records feature the top session players of the era, and their arrangements, with multiple key changes and complex vocal harmonies, reflected a high level of craftsmanship.

This required very high tracking forces that rapidly wore out both the stylus and the record on lateral cut 78 rpm records.

Since the late sixteenth century Rockall, a 20 metre high rock in the Atlantic Ocean, has been noted in written records, although it is likely that some northern Atlantic fishing crews knew of the rock before these historical accounts were made.

It also records that in the eighth year of his reign during a particularly high Nile flood, he had the excess waters dammed for the benefit of the farmers.

" A post-war examination of German records found that during Operation Fortitude no fewer than sixty-two of Pujol's reports were included in German military high command intelligence summaries.

** A major heat wave strikes North America ; high temperature records are set and thousands die.

* July 13 – 14 – Peak of July 1936 heat wave: The U. S. states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature.

For his second triumph, his donatives were said to break all records, though the amounts in Plutarch's account are implausibly high: Pompey ’ s lowest ranking soldiers each received 6000 sesterces ( about six times their annual pay ) and his officers around 5 million sesterces each.

Death Valley holds temperature records because it has an unusually high number of factors that lead to high atmospheric temperatures.

The high water records began in February 1986 and lasted through the year, ending with January 1987.

As with the high water records, monthly low water records were set each month from February 1964 through January 1965.

Bands such as The Boswell Sisters regularly employed scatting on their records, including the high complexity of scatting at the same time, in harmony.

The other improved standard, called Digital-VHS ( D-VHS ), records digital high definition video onto a VHS form factor tape.

The Stanley Brothers utilized a high baritone part on several of their trios recorded for Columbia records during their time with that label ( 1950 – 1953 ).

Houses of settlers who'd treated the company herds as a natural resource, free for the taking, were sitting empty, with weeds growing high in their yards.

His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

Alley fences were made of solid boards higher than one's head, but not so high as the golden glow in a corner or the hollyhocks that grew in a line against them.

Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

Charming and peaceful -- but what were charm and peace compared to high adventure??

Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders.

However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.

The horses were groomed to a high gloss ; ;

Two types of light source were used, a thousand watt projection lamp and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc.

Similarly, both types of antibodies were found in three regions of the chromatographic eluate, having extremely low, low, and high anionic binding capacity, respectively ( Fig. 3 ).

For if such were the case, either the plane of the two lines would meet **zg in more than K points or, alternatively, the order of the image regulus of the pencil determined by the two lines would be too high.

Children scoring high in compulsivity were those who gave evidence of tension or emotionality in situations where there was lack of organization or conformity to standards and expectations, or who made exaggerated efforts to achieve these goals.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

States were free to enact, within broad, though ( perhaps ) determinate limits, their own rules as to the application of foreign law by their courts, to vary the law merchant, and to enact legislation with regard to many claims arising on the high seas.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

In Hilo Bay they were from 21 to 26 feet high.

It turned out that the waves were not so high as in 1946.

Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

Dr. Barnes said that there seemed to be feeling that evacuation plans, even for a high school where there were lots of cars `` might not be realistic and would not work ''.

Guests were juniors in the public high schools.

Other reasons mentioned by one-third or more of the builders were `` resistance to high interest rates, cost advantage of buying over renting has narrowed, shelter market nearing saturation and prospects unable to qualify ''.