The old Belasco Theater, over which many people had grown sentimental, was only a shell of its former self after arduous years as a USO Center.

Community esprit de corps has been the protective shell which has made the achievement possible.

A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.

The fruit of the almond is a drupe, consisting of an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed or " nut " ( which is not a true nut ) inside.

The thick inner layer of the shell is composed of nacre or mother-of-pearl, which in many species is highly iridescent, giving rise to a range of strong and changeable colors, which make the shells attractive to humans as decorative objects, and as a source of colorful mother-of-pearl.

These holes collectively make up what is known as the selenizone which form as the shell grows.

The iridescent nacre that lines the inside of the shell varies in color from silvery white, to pink, red and green-red, through to Haliotis iris, which shows predominantly deep blues, greens and purples.

The outer shell of the calorimeter was packed with snow, which melted to maintain a constant temperature of around an inner shell filled with ice.

Each actinophryid are unicellular and roughly spherical in shape, without any shell or test, and with many pseudopodia supported by axopods radiating outward from the cell body, which adhere to passing prey and allows it to roll or float about.

In chapter 11, Leer is hit by a shell fragment, which also hits Bertinck.

Upon ejection the kinetic energy of the Auger electron corresponds to the difference between the energy of the initial electronic transition and the ionization energy for the electron shell from which the Auger electron was ejected.

They generally possess compound eyes and a carapace, which may be a shell of two valves enclosing the trunk ( as in most Cladocera ), broad and shallow ( as in the Notostraca ), or entirely absent ( as in the Anostraca ).

If she goes her time out, she herself cuts the navel-string with a shell, which she boils along with the secondine, and eats them both.

In 1916, chemist Gilbert N. Lewis developed the concept of the electron-pair bond, in which two atoms may share one to six electrons, thus forming the single electron bond, a single bond, a double bond, or a triple bond ; in Lewis's own words, " An electron may form a part of the shell of two different atoms and cannot be said to belong to either one exclusively.

He introduced the Lewis notation or electron dot notation or Lewis dot structure in which valence electrons ( those in the outer shell ) are represented as dots around the atomic symbols.

When the sperm breaks through the hard outer shell of the egg a new cell embryo is formed, which, in humans, grows to full size in 9 months.

CPAN. pm is mainly an interactive shell which can be used to search for, download, and install distributions.

In addition, a component of MinGW known as MSYS ( Minimal SYStem ), which was derived from Cygwin version 1. 3. 3, provides a minimal Unix-like shell environment including bash and a selection of POSIX tools sufficient to enable autoconf scripts to run.

Bruce Sterling in his universe of Shaper / Mechanist suggested an idea of alternative cyborg called Lobster, which is made not by using internal implants, but by using an external shell ( e. g. a Powered Exoskeleton ).

The Moon has an outer shell of low density crystalline rock that is a few hundred kilometers thick, which formed due to a rapid creation.

The shell almost invariably has a circular opening over which the drumhead is stretched, but the shape of the remainder of the shell varies widely.

Oyster salt roast -- oysters on the half shell, cooked on a bed of coarse salt that kept them hot when served -- was a standby at Manning's.

He later served in the Mesopotamian Campaign in Iraq, where he was badly wounded at El Hannah after being hit in the leg by shrapnel from an exploding shell while taking enemy trenches.

* Popular food dishes include taspar eggs ( always served boiled, as most races find it revolting when raw and even more so while still alive writhing inside its shell, as seen when Captain Picard forces himself to eat one after torture and starvation by a Cardassian agent ), tojal, zabo meat, and sem ' hal stew ( often eaten with yamok sauce ).

When served freshly shucked ( opened ) and iced, one may find a liquid inside the shell, called the liqueur.

In the past it was assumed that these plates served to close the opening of the shell in much the same way as an operculum, however more recently it has been postulated that they were instead a jaw apparatus.

He served in the British Army as a subaltern in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, but suffered shell shock, which led to his relinquishing his commission in May 1916.

A salt-based soup called ushiojiru containing clams still in the shell is also served.

** Chè xôi nước: balls made from mung bean paste in a shell made of glutinous rice flour ; served in a thick clear or brown liquid made of water, sugar, and grated ginger root.

Its meat, well tempered, can be served in different forms: as a shell, the so-called unha ( the claws ) or toc-toc.

During World War I he attended military hospitals for shell shock and served on the British General Medical Council.

* The Honourable Teddy Meldrum ( Michael Knowles )-Lord Meldrum's younger brother, he had been conscripted as a Captain into the British Army in 1915 and had served in the Infantry on the Western Front, where he was badly injured by a shell and carried back to the field hospital by Stokes and Twelvetrees.

Special snail tongs ( for holding the shell ) and snail forks ( for extracting the meat ) are also normally provided, and they are served on indented metal trays with places for six or 12 snails.

There is nearly uncontestable evidence that Glencairn / Cunningham has served as a corporate shell used by Sinclair to circumvent FCC ownership rules.

The scallop shell also served practical purposes for pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago.

Mizuyokan ( Japan ) is made without the outer shell of steamed dough, and instead of a paste, the mashed beans are mixed with gelatin, cooled for an extended period of time, and then cut into squares and served.

In Cambodia, balut are eaten while still warm in the shell and are served with nothing more than a little garnish, which is usually a mixture of lime juice and ground pepper.

During World War II, he served in the Army in Europe ; in the Battle of the Bulge he was wounded by shrapnel from an exploding shell and was hospitalized for eight weeks with an injury that nearly cost him his sight.

The origin of the term " oyster cracker " is unclear, but it may be that they were originally served with oyster stew or clam chowder or merely that their form ( a vaguely round ' shell ' that splits evenly into two parts ) was suggestive of the shape of an oyster in its shell.

Lee served with the Queen's Westminster Rifles in the Machine Gun Corps and suffered shell shock following the March Retreat of 1918.

Generally cooked with their shells on, when they moult their shells, they can be served as a seafood delicacy, one of many types of soft shell crab.

File: Oyster_and_Passion_Fruit_Jelly. jpg | Oyster and passion-fruit jelly on lavender, served in an oyster shell.

The black drink was prepared by special village officials and served in large communal cups, frequently made of whelk shell.

During World War I, he served for two years as a lieutenant of the Royal Field Artillery before being invalided out of the army, possibly because of shell shock.