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one and ship
only one producer in a hundred is equipped to package and ship unit loads ; ;
The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.
`` The ship is huge '', said Macneff, `` but the number of military men and specialists we are taking limits the linguists to one.
The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.
At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16, 000 people who apparently were able to produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly-built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution.
Hector and the Trojans succeed in burning one Greek ship, the culmination of an assault that almost finishes the war.
* Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his ' ship of state ' allegories.
Suspicious, the Blight discovers that one of the ships contains a data storage device in its cargo manifest ; assuming it contains information that could harm it, the Blight destroys the ship.
The boxes are rapidly failing and the surviving adults begin unloading them, but are killed when one of two rival forces of Tines seize the ship.
In a ship there are often several decks, but a boat is unlikely to have more than one, if any at all.
To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.
Orion needed just one broadside to reduce the frigate to a wreck, and Martin's disabled ship drifted away over the shoal.
Subsequent archaeological investigation found debris scattered over of seabed and evidence that the ship was wracked by two huge explosions one after the other.
Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.
Four other ships sit along the coastline, one on fire while a large ship and a small ship are grounded on a shoal which is surmounted by a burning fort.
They were lighter and could outmaneuver the quinqueremes, where one objective was to ram the enemy ship and at the same time attack the above-deck crew with a shower of arrows and catapult-launched stones, which were large enough to decapitate a man.
Smaller transportation canals can carry barges or narrowboats, while ship canals allow seagoing ships to travel to an inland port ( e. g., Manchester Ship Canal ), or from one sea or ocean to another ( e. g., Caledonian Canal, Panama Canal ).
In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").
On one occasion, crew members ransacked the trading ship Mary and tortured several of its crew members while Kidd and the other captain, Thomas Parker, conversed privately in Kidd's cabin.
They are not replicas of any one ship, but an attempt to combine what their builders consider the " best " qualities of clipper ships.
" The strategy worked and the VIC-20 became the first computer to ship more than one million units.

one and escaped
He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.
A man of vaulting ambition, with one eye on the mayorship of Los Angeles, nothing ever escaped him which might possibly lead to personal publicity.
Instead, that night ( July 17 / 18 ), Alexios III hid in the palace, and finally, with one of his daughters, Eirene, and such treasures ( 1, 000 pounds of gold ) as he could collect, got into a boat and escaped to Debeltos in Thrace, leaving his wife and his other daughters behind.
On one occasion he was separated from Ursicinus and took refuge in Amida during the siege of the city, which was then attacked by the Sassanid king Shapur II ; he barely escaped with his life.
The poem is known to us only through one Vatican manuscript, and long escaped the notice of historians.
22: 17-21 ), Joash escaped death because in the latter case one priest, Abiathar, survived ( Sanh.
He escaped being drafted into one of the armies by feigning madness, insisting that a fly was on his head.
Gaddafi escaped unharmed ; however, his adopted daughter Hanna was claimed to be one of the civilian casualties.
" Proceeding therefore incautiously in an unknown place, he and his army became entangled in the mire, and under that disadvantage were so assailed by the missiles of the Barbarians, that not one of them escaped with life.
In one incident, he and his brother Heman went to the farm of a neighbor, some of whose pigs had escaped onto their land, and seized the pigs.
The police gave chase but, as one account puts it, " were encumbered by sobriety ," and the men escaped.
He then claims, ' There he stood up to me alone one day, and he barely escaped my onslaught.
If a hoplite escaped, he would sometimes be forced to drop his cumbersome aspis, thereby disgracing himself to his friends and family ( becoming a " ripsaspis ", one who threw his shield ).
Slave insurrections were frequent and some slaves escaped to the mountains where they were met by what would be one of the last generations of Taíno natives.
Once the 14-year-old king had regained control of the capital and then the whole country, Grindcobbe was tried in the Moot Hall ( on the site of the present-day W H Smith stationery shop, where a plaque commemorates the event ) and adjudged a ' traitor ' alongside John Ball (' the mad priest of Kent ', one of the rebel leaders who had escaped from Smithfield, London to Coventry ) and more than a dozen others.
The airborne car hit a telegraph pole, throwing Brabham onto the track, where he narrowly avoided being hit by one of his teammates but escaped with no serious injury.
Loki is mentioned in stanza 14, the final stanza of the poem, where the völva tells Odin to ride home, to be proud of himself, and that no one else will come visit until " Loki is loose, escaped from his bonds " and the onset of Ragnarök.
In one story the Tarquins escaped to Gabii.
The nobles did not escape assessment, but they obtained the right to appoint their own capitation tax assessors, which allowed them to escape most of the burden ( in one calculation, they escapedof it )..
At the Sack of Rome ( 1527 ) he was one of the hostages given by Pope Clement VII to the Emperor's forces, and barely escaped execution.
Quedlinburg is one of the best-preserved medieval and renaissance towns in Europe, having escaped major damage in World War II.
As police and army troops prepared to launch a rescue operation, Lizcano escaped alongside one of his guerrilla guards who had decided to desert.

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