His hands, which had been as quick as a pair of fluttering birds, were now neither active nor really relaxed.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

and a policeman asserted he had found a pair of brass knuckles in Art's pocket once when he had occasion to collar the Great First Baseman for some forgotten reason.

The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.

The White Sox had taken a 5-4 lead in the top of the sixth on a pair of pop fly hits -- a triple by Roy Sievers and single by Camilo Carreon -- a walk and a sacrifice fly.

Volta had determined that the most effective pair of dissimilar metals to produce electricity was zinc and silver.

He had been reduced to near-poverty and it is said that to save money his wife carried out an ill-advised operation using a pair of scissors.

After Ray Wallace's death, his children came forward with a pair of wooden feet, which they said their father had used to fake the Bigfoot tracks in 1958.

In January 1923 the pair announced their engagement ; by July they had separated, leading to speculation that the relationship was a publicity stunt.

As principal owners, the pair moved the club from the West Side Grounds to the much newer Weeghman Park, which had been constructed for the Whales only two years earlier.

After a rough start, which included a brawl between Michael Barrett and Carlos Zambrano, the Cubs overcame the Milwaukee Brewers, who had led the division for most of the season, with winning streaks in June and July, coupled with a pair of dramatic, late-inning wins against the Reds, and ultimately clinched the NL Central with a record of 85 – 77.

The pair had unexpected success in their first season finishing just outside the play-offs, and 1992 – 93 began promisingly and Charlton looked good bets for promotion in the new Division One ( the new name of the old Second Division following the formation of the Premier League ).

Because chip packaging was not available with enough pins, the F8 was instead fabricated as a pair of chips that had to be used together to form a complete CPU.

* Andy Warhol had a pair of dachshunds, Archie and Amos, whom he depicted in his paintings and mentioned frequently in his diaries.

These engines had two extra cylinders for forced induction, so they really appeared like V6 engines but without spark plugs on the front cylinder pair.

Police initially suspected the boys had been raped ; however, later expert testimony disputed this finding despite trace amounts of sperm DNA found on a pair of pants recovered from the scene.

He eventually got funding in 1983 to write a script about John and Jim Pardue, a pair of Missouri bank robbers who had killed their father and grandmother and robbed five banks.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

In 1973 the number theorist Hugh Montgomery was visiting the Institute for Advanced Study and had just made his pair correlation conjecture concerning the distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function.

" According to writer Philip Norman, when Groucho jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, " Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player ," thereby naming the album he had just completed.

Parsons had been acquainted with Hillman since the pair had met in a bank during 1967 and in February 1968 he passed an audition for the band, being initially recruited as a jazz pianist but soon switching to rhythm guitar and vocals.

Later the staff had two intertwined snakes and sometimes it was crowned with a pair of wings and a ball, but the old form remained in use even when Hermes was associated with Mercury by the Romans.

Buffalo coach Buster Ramsey, who has become one of the game's greatest collectors of quarterbacks, apparently now has found a productive pair in two ex-National Football Leaguers, M. C. Reynolds and Warren Rabb.

Apollo would not suffer such a depraved pair of ears any longer, and caused them to become the ears of a donkey.

The species that gains the electron pair is the Lewis acid ; for example, the oxygen atom in H < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sup >+</ sup > gains a pair of electrons when one of the H — O bonds is broken and the electrons shared in the bond become localized on oxygen.

With this knowledge and a pair of glasses given to him as a gift by Wonder Woman, ' Clark ' regains his humanity, and sets out to become a hero again by re-fertilizing the irradiated fields of Kansas.

The Ninth asks for a second pair of horns, for reasons similar to the " Eroica " ( four horns has since become standard ); Beethoven's use of piccolo, contrabassoon, trombones, and untuned percussion — plus chorus and vocal soloists — in his finale, are his earliest suggestion that the timbral boundaries of " symphony " might be expanded for good.

But if two pair ranks above three of a kind, the two pair will become more common.

Abstract, subscription needed for full text </ ref > and even small diamonds interact physically and then become separated ; the type of interaction is such that each resulting member of a pair is properly described by the same quantum mechanical description ( state ), which is indefinite in terms of important factors such as position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc.

Baird built what was to become the world's first working television set using items including an old hatbox and a pair of scissors, some darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, a used tea chest, and sealing wax and glue that he purchased.

The cable construction used for balanced telephone cables was twisted pair, however, this did not become widespread until repeater amplifiers became available.

Later, in the first Reunion movie, Enos and Daisy become a pair again and plan to get married — but this time Daisy backs out at the last minute, upon the unexpected sight of her ex-husband.

: Mr. Lindsay's attention was originally riveted on philological studies, owing to doubts which he entertained as to the authenticity of Scripture history-more especially as regarded the origin of the human race from one primal pair: but the more he studied the different languages dead and extant, the more his doubts gave way, and the stronger did his convictions of the truth of the literal exactness of the Scripture statements on this subject become.

They did however have certain traits separating them from cartilaginous fishes, traits that would become pivotal in the evolution of terrestrial forms: With the exception of a pair of spiracles, the gills did not open singly to exterior like in sharks, rather they were hidden behind a bony operculum.

Higher bandwidth 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards have since become available as the IEEE ratified a fiber-based standard in 2002, and a twisted pair standard in 2006.

Rudyard Kipling's short story " Quiquern " collected in The Second Jungle Book ( even though it is not a jungle story ) tells how two young Inuit hunters, desperate to find food for their starving tribe, believe they are being guided by Quiquern / Qiqirn, only to discover that the many-legged " spirit " is actually a pair of sled dogs whose collars had become entangled.

Although the pair do not get along at first, they eventually become good friends.

Nevertheless, the pair went onto become good friends, due to their shared passion for music, particularly The Jam, The Human League, XTC and Madness.

The Darlington pair has more phase shift at high frequencies than a single transistor and hence can more easily become unstable with negative feedback ( i. e., systems that use this configuration can have poor phase margin due to the extra transistor delay ).

Little other significant headway was made by the pair until one of Vance's cronies, Gary Katz, moved to Los Angeles to become a staff producer for ABC Records.

He joined Jermaine Dye to become the first pair of Royals to go to the Mid-Summer Classic since 1989 ( Bo Jackson and Mark Gubicza ).

This provides them with important experience for future leadership positions, as each junior pair has the chance to become Weyrwoman on very short notice.

The couple had become " mutually captivated " during a visit to Brocket Hall in 1802 and for many years the pair enjoyed a happy marriage.

When two quarks become separated, as happens in particle accelerator collisions, at some point it is more energetically favorable for a new quark – antiquark pair to spontaneously appear, than to allow the tube to extend further.