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Mr. Earl of the ' Crown Inn ', Southgate, Nr London, will produce a retriever puppy not over six months old for £ 10 or £ 20 that will perform more tricks than any other dog of nine months old in England.
As only five tricks out of remaining six cards are required, this is a squeeze without the count.
Modano's career high for points in a game is six ( 2 – 4 – 6 ) against the Anaheim Ducks, and he has seven career hat tricks.
Although the dummy holds the top six spades, they can win no tricks unless someone leads a spade ; South has no spades, and so cannot do so and the opponents are unlikely to do so either.
If South had just one spade ( and one less card elsewhere ), he could play it as a means of entering the North hand, enabling it to win six spades tricks.
Spider-Man — or, specifically, the symbiote acting as Spider-Man — defeated all six handily, using both a few new tricks which were previously impossible in his standard blue-and-red costume and the Six's own talents and weaknesses against each other.
It had a song-" Not number one, not number two, not number three or four, not number five, not number six, only one Dash can do tricks!
* Rather than counting the tricks won, most players keep track of the tricks taken by the opposing team ( e. g., it takes four books to set a four, three books to set a five, two books to set a six, and so forth ).
The piece, which runs for just over six minutes, features a number of techniques, including whammy bar tricks, two-hand tapping, harmonics and volume swells.
This is most often seen in the middle-distance running, where tactics are more important than time, and these events have seen many foul tricks during the years, in 1992 resulting in the disqualification of all six runners in the men's 1500 metres event.
He / she must get all six tricks.
If all six tricks are won, the team with the winning small pepper receives 12 points.
The contracting side scores one point for each trick taken if it makes at least its contract, but is set back ( loses ) six points if it fails to make its contract, regardless of the value of the contract or the tricks actually won.
If the side playing defense ( that is, the side that does not win the bid ) fails to get any tricks, it goes back six points.
However, if the contracting side fails to take all six tricks, it is set back 14 or 12 points ( for big and small, respectively ).
If the defensive side does not get any tricks in a small or big pepper, it loses just six points.
Bids of one to six are made by stating the number of tricks to be taken.
A pepper consists of winning all six tricks with a passed card.
As loner bids-asserting that one will win all six tricks without assistance-are pre-emptive, they are typically made by declaring suit and leading out the first trick.
Trump Bids are the numbers Four through Six, and Pfeffer a / k / a Double-Pfeffer ( a bid to win all six tricks, alone ).
No Trump Bids are the numbers Five, Six, and Pfeffer ( a bid to win all six tricks, alone ).
Winner of each trick leads to the next and play continues until all six tricks have been played.

six and required
But no single planetary problem ever required of Ptolemy more than six epicycles at one time.
Inside, carefully packed in straw, were six eggs, but the eye of a poultry psychologist was required to detect what scientifically valuable specimentalia lay inside ; ;
On December 13, 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States ' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months ' notice before terminating the pact — the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.
In 1884, the National League changed the rules so that six balls were required for a walk.
In 1886, the American Association changed the rules so that six balls instead of seven were required for a walk ; however, the National League changed the rules so that seven balls were required for a walk instead of six.
Each enrollee volunteered and, upon passing a physical exam and / or a period of conditioning, was required to serve a minimum six month period with the option to serve as many as four periods, or up to two years if employment outside the Corps was not possible.
He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.
The eleven dives are usually split up between two categories: five required ( voluntary ) dives and six optional dives.
Frances and others have published debates on what they see as the six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis-are they more like theoretical constructs or more like diseases ; how to reach an agreed definition ; whether the DSM-V should take a cautious or conservative approach ; the role of practical rather than scientific considerations ; the issue of use by clinicians or researchers ; and whether an entirely different diagnostic system is required.
At least three cylinders are required with two-stroke engines and at least six cylinders with four-stroke engines to provide torque every 120 degrees.
If A consisted of three regions, six or more colors might be required ; one can construct maps that require an arbitrarily high number of colors.
On 22 March 1884, he gave Gilbert and Sullivan contractual notice that a new opera would be required in six months ' time.
Accordingly, at the time of the Glorious Revolution, the English Parliament acted of its own authority to name a new king and queen ( joint monarchs Mary II and William III ); likewise, Edward VIII's abdication required the approval of the parliament in each of Edward's six independent realms.
With the rise in popularity of home theater, however, multi-channel playback systems became affordable, and many consumers were willing to tolerate the six to eight channels required in a home theater.
Permanent professors are only required to be in residence six months a year.
The courts upheld fingerprinting, but the law was changed so that fingerprinting was done once rather than with each renewal of the registration, which until a law reform in 1989 was usually required every six months for anybody from the age of 16.
When it became clear after another six ballots that Van Buren would not win the required majority, Polk emerged as a " dark horse " candidate.
The Supreme Court has ruled that if imprisonment is for six months or less, trial by jury is not required, meaning a state may choose whether or not to permit trial by jury in such cases.
Today six Swedish libraries receive legal deposit copies, but only Lund and the Royal Library in Stockholm are required to keep everything for posterity.
The $ 1 million endorsement deal, which required Lewinsky to lose 40 or more pounds in six months, gained considerable publicity at the time.
The poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece, first published in 1593 and 1594 under the name " William Shakespeare ", proved highly popular for several decades – with Venus and Adonis published six more times before 1616, while Lucrece required four additional printings during this same period.

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