Two men murmured with their heads together at the end of the bar, while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished a glass.

Spectra were also obtained from a sample in a spherical container which was made by blowing a bubble on the end of a capillary glass tube.

Toward the end of his fourth hairy highball, while he was moodily making wet rings on the table-top with the bottom of the glass, he became aware that he was not alone.

James Lind's anemometer of 1775 consisted simply of a glass U tube containing a liquid manometer ( pressure gauge ), with one end bent in a horizontal direction to face the wind and the other vertical end remains parallel to the wind flow.

* BSI PAS 102 Specification for processed glass for selected secondary end markets

The CRT uses an evacuated glass envelope which is large, deep ( i. e. long from front screen face to rear end ), fairly heavy, and relatively fragile.

Through the construction of a glass tube filled with mercury and plugged at each end with a quartz crystal, delay lines could store bits of information within the quartz and transfer it through sound waves propagating through mercury.

In 1838, Michael Faraday passed a current through a rarefied air filled glass tube and noticed a strange light arc with its beginning at the cathode ( negative electrode ) and its end almost at the anode ( positive electrode ).

But at the anode ( positive ) end of the tube, the glass of the tube itself began to glow.

In 1662, the noted Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle performed a series of experiments employing a J-shaped glass tube, which was sealed on one end.

In his 1852 paper on the " Refrangibility " ( wavelength change ) of light, George Gabriel Stokes described the ability of fluorspar and uranium glass to change invisible light beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum into blue light.

Modern field hockey sticks are J-shaped and constructed of a composite of wood, glass fibre or carbon fibre ( sometimes both ) and have a curved hook at the playing end, a flat surface on the playing side and curved surface on the rear side.

Near the end of his apprenticeship, Grien oversaw the production of stained glass, woodcuts and engravings, and therefore developed an affinity for them.

At the end of the ceremony, the groom breaks a glass with his foot, symbolizing the continuous mourning for the destruction of the Temple, and the scattering of the Jewish people.

On rear-view sunglasses, the left end of the left glass and the right end of the right glass work as mirrors.

A torricellian vacuum is created by filling with mercury a tall glass container closed at one end and then inverting the container into a bowl to contain the mercury.

One can blow air through an end grain piece 10 inches long to make bubbles come out in a glass of water.

Then, by reinserting the end of one whisker into the flame, he could create a very small, high-quality glass sphere.

Two of the outlets end in plain hose adapters while the third ends in a male 14 / 20 ground glass joint.

It is about 2200 m², with pointed arches decorated with diaper work, supported on pairs of columns in white marble, 216 in all, which were alternately plain and decorated by bands of patterns in gold and colors, made of glass tesserae, arranged either spirally or vertically from end to end of each shaft.

And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.

his end is ridiculous and trivial.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

To this end political authority is called upon to exercise its negative and coercive powers.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.

If either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where the promises would end.

Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig Von Mises have been arguing for years: an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a realistic depreciation allowance for industry.

Where we end our journey is always the same.

These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.

In the 10-year period, it is proposed that insect and disease control on the National Forest System be stepped up to a level of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations that will substantially reduce the occurrence of large infestations toward the end of the initial period.

it incorporates an automatic knot-tying device on each spindle, and it will knot a break in the yarn in 10 seconds as well as tie in new bobbins as the running end is exhausted.

In the end, however, the thing about this performance that is most striking is the way it sings.

Chuck a length of 1/8'' '' dia. drill rod into a drill press or some similar turning device and while it is rotating file the end square and then file a slight taper 1/8'' '' long.

For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.

Note, however, that it is six inches shorter at the forward end.

The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.

A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.

Plans vary from the `` talking stage '' to establishing special committees to accomplish this end.

At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.

Sewing needles were special to the sewer and were custom made, often with a detailed end that had animal heads.

By the end of 1918-1919, some units had been created: secretly operative, investigatory, of transportation, military ( special ), operative, and instructional.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

The code table initially contains codes that are one bit longer than the symbol size in order to accommodate the two special codes clr and end and codes for strings that are added during the process.

About 10 minutes before the end of Lewis Black's special " Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black " on the History Channel, Craig Ferguson described Hogmanay as follows:

But by the end of the 1990s, the standard size was again 14 inches, with 13 inches a less-common alternative, and smaller hats mainly used for special sounds.

At the end of the Renaissance the special doctrine considering being as such was named ontology and a corresponding doctrine about knowledge came under the name of epistemology or gnoseology.

One of the most noticeable differences between HTML and XHTML is the rule that all tags must be closed: empty HTML tags such as < code >< nowiki ></ nowiki ></ code > must either be closed with a regular end-tag, or replaced by a special form: < code >< nowiki > < nowiki >/></ nowiki ></ code > ( the space before the '< code >< nowiki >/</ nowiki ></ code >' on the end tag is optional, but frequently used because it enables some pre-XML Web browsers, and SGML parsers, to accept the tag ).

* 1961 – Apollo program: U. S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a " man on the Moon " before the end of the decade.

To this end the Mossad set up a number of special teams to locate and kill these terrorists, aided by the agency's stations in Europe.

The early deaths of Young and Champollion, in 1829 and 1832, did not put an end to these disputes ; the authoritative work on the stone by the British Museum curator E. A. Wallis Budge, published in 1904, gives special emphasis to Young's contribution by contrast with Champollion's.

The player can end the game at any time by waiting for blocks to reach the top, then performing a special action ( for example, right-click instead of left-click ).

The end of Ramadan fasting is celebrated with special prayers, gatherings of family and friends, and specially prepared meals.

In some models the tape has a left end marked with a special symbol ; the tape extends or is indefinitely extensible to the right .</ li >

In the end, Miss Evans ( who had previously appeared on the Strong Women special but had lost out to curate Emma Langley ) defeated Basil Brush, winning £ 2, 710, which she split with her co-finalist to give to charity.

* May 25 – Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.

At the end of the night, group members use a special rallying call and gather to sleep in a nest made of leaves, a group of branches, or a hole in a tree.

Some airfields now have a special surface known as soft concrete at the end of the runway ( stopway or blastpad ) that behaves somewhat like styrofoam, bringing the plane to a relatively rapid halt as the material disintegrates.

Kosovo Police established a special investigation team to handle cases related to the 2004 unrest and according to Kosovo Judicial Council by the end of 2006 the 326 charges filed by municipal and district prosecutors for criminal offenses in connection with the unrest had resulted in 200 indictments: convictions in 134 cases, and courts acquitted eight and dismissed 28 ; 30 cases were pending.

Up to the end of 1980s, it had considerable incomes mainly from managed properties and from the RSW company ‘ Press-Book-Traffic ’, which in turn had special tax concessions.

This can be done by attaching special bit patterns to the beginning and the end of the frame.