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small and shaft
The upper sub shaft held the razor stone head and attached to the lower sub shaft with a small braided twine loop.
A very small number of bicycles use a shaft drive to transmit power, or special belts.
In 2011 the Djedi Project team used a Micro snake camera ( that can see around corners ) to penetrate the first door of the northern shaft, and view all the sides of the small chamber behind it.
It is likely that they contributed to the points of spears or light projectiles, and their small size suggests that they were fixed in some way to a shaft or handle.
The shaft is made of manau-cane ( not bamboo because it is hollowed ) although a small number of mallets today are made from Composite materials.
Steam turbines are made in a variety of sizes ranging from small < 0. 75 kW ( 1 < hp ) units ( rare ) used as mechanical drives for pumps, compressors and other shaft driven equipment, to 1, 500, 000 kW ( 2, 000, 000 hp ) turbines used to generate electricity.
Just as it is very easy to press a fit on an extremely small diameter allowance ( say, a shaft just one tenth larger than its hole ), it is very easy when measuring with a micrometer to squeeze the workpiece smaller ( or expand the micrometer frame larger ) just one tenth, albeit in completely elastic fashion, with only a small amount of overtorquing of the thimble.
They were often equipped with a vamplate, a small circular plate to prevent the hand sliding up the shaft upon impact.
Along the two diagonals are two Reuten, small triangular shovels with a slightly bent shaft.
The belt and line shaft were also tremendously wasteful – so wasteful indeed that no factory could be really large, for even the longest line shaft was small according to modern requirements.
It is discovered that Hanner Coal Company, owned by Orin Hanner Sr. ( Kris Kristoffersson ), is being paid to dump toxic waste into an abandoned coal mine shaft, so Jack is assigned to go to the small town of Jackson, where his cover is that of assistant and volunteer carpenter to a local church.
Similarly, Pearling involves surgical insertion of small, inert spheres under the skin along the shaft of the penis for the purpose of providing sexual stimulation to the walls of the vagina.
Next, there is fixed ( on the same shaft ) a small horizontal wheel ( hsiao phing lun ) 3. 3 inches in diameter and 1 ft in circumference, having 10 cogs 1. 5 inches apart.
Instead he permanently attached the knife blades to the rod, and adjusted the periods of the pendulum by a small moveable weight < font color =" red ">( b, c )</ font > on the pendulum shaft.
* Grinders A rotating shaft with cutting blades grinds the paper until it is small enough to fall through a screen.
* PLYMOUTH The PLYMOUTH open pit mine operated just to the west of the WAKEFIELD, but the PLYMOUTH was entirely an open pit operation, with the possible exception of a small amount of ore taken out of the No. 3 shaft as it was being sunk.
The Astrocade featured a relatively complex input device incorporating several types of control mechanisms: the controller was shaped as a pistol-style grip with trigger switch on the front ; a small 4-switch / 8-way joystick was placed on top of the grip, and the shaft of the joystick connected to a potentiometer, meaning that the stick could be rotated to double as a paddle controller.
The sleeves were operated by small connected rods actuated by an eccentric shaft.
In 1837 the Great Western Steam Company was experiencing many problems forging the paddle shaft of the SS Great Britain ; when even the largest hammer was tilted to its full height its range was so small that if a really large piece of work were placed on the anvil, the hammer had no room to fall, and in 1838 the company's engineer wrote to Nasmyth:
Australian researchers, attempting to measure the gravitational constant deep in a mine shaft, found a discrepancy between the predicted and measured value, with the measured value being two percent too small.
When the silicon is fully melted, a small seed crystal mounted on the end of a rotating shaft is slowly lowered until it just dips below the surface of the molten silicon.

small and blue
He had a small mouth with deep furrows on either side, a large flat nose, and penetrating blue eyes.
Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.
The grave, about half-way between his home and the blue turrets of a small church, rose above the forms and spaces of gently undisciplined pastures of green, the sounds of birds, the silence of other graves and the casual paths through small forests.
The Dominican Republic's small Catalina Island has been studied since 13 December 2007, by a team of underwater archaeologists from Indiana University, after an Italian tourist announced the discovery of an old wreck at just under the clear blue waters, at a distance of no more than offshore.
All blue and white areas are inside Delaware, except for the small sliver of Maryland on the western extremity of the circle.
The team donned blue jerseys with white sleeves and a small blue star on each shoulder for home games and the negative opposite for away games.
The national flag of the United States of America is often simply referred to as the American flag, consisting of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red ( top and bottom ) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton ( referred to specifically as the " union ") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars ( top and bottom ) alternating with rows of five stars.
The women wear a white chemise ; over that a very small corselet, and over that a red jacket with blue and black velvet facings.
also acquired some tattoos ; on each knuckle he had a small untidy blue circle.
Very hazy atmosphere layers with a small amount of methane gives them aquamarine colors such as baby blue and ultramarine colors respectively.
These include an all-black strip with blue and gold trimmings between 1993 and 1995, the navy blue shirt with silver horizontal pinstripes worn during the 1999 – 2000 season, and the 2011 – 12 away kit, which had a royal blue body and sleeves with hoops made of small midnight navy blue and black stripes, with black shorts and blue socks.
It originally had 24 stars and, symbolic of its nautical purpose, includes a small anchor sewn in the corner of its blue canton.
Presumably these messages were on small pieces of blue paper.
Figure 2: Large ( red ) and small ( blue ) subunit fit together
* Red Magic Knight Rayearth and light blue Ninku Blue version, featuring the game and a small miniature of one of the game's characters.
She appears almost invariably with brown shorts, boots and small backpack, a dark green or blue sleeveless top, holsters on both sides of her hip for dual wielded pistols.
Also in 2009, the team honored former Quarterback Steve McNair, by placing a small navy blue disc on the back of their helmets, inside of the navy blue disk, a white number 9 ( 9 was the number McNair wore during his time with the Oilers / Titans ).

small and had
On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.
) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.
The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.
He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.
We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.
his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.
Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.
Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.
at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested in Mr. Podger's hammock purchase.
Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.
If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.
The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.
The dog refused to be scared off, so Kahler had purchased some small firecrackers.
The colony had been small until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 drove many Jews into Rome.
Both of them had known the feeling of the small life in her waiting, ready, for the two of them to run up her sails.
An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.

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