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Very large bore (>= 0. 750 inch ) sousaphones, with oversized bells as large as 32 " in diameter, were made by Conn (" Grand Jumbo " ( 3-valve ) & 48K ( 4-valve )) and King (" Jumbo " ( 3-& 4-valve versions ) & " Giant " ( 3-valve ) & 1271 ( 4-value )) in the mid-1920s and 1930s, and by Martin, York, & Buescher, but they disappeared from the catalogs during the Depression or at the onset of World War II.
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Very little trace has yet been found of large free-standing sculpture, but many examples exist of sculptors ' smaller work.
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Very large were the concessions made by Richelieu in his personal interviews with Amyraut ; but, as with the Worcester House negotiations in England between the Church of England and nonconformists, they inevitably fell through.
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The older type of Very pistol, typical of the type used in the Second World War, are of one inch bore ( 26. 5mm ).
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Because they are so distant, they are apparently stationary to our current technology, yet their positions can be measured with the utmost accuracy by Very Long Baseline Interferometry ( VLBI ); positions of most are known to 0. 001 arcsecond or better, orders of magnitude more precise than the best optical measurements.
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VORs are assigned radio channels between 108. 0 MHz and 117. 95 MHz ( with 50 kHz spacing ); this is in the Very High Frequency ( VHF ) range.
A study in 2008 which linked radio telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona and California ( Very Long Baseline Interferometry ) measured the diameter of Sagittarius A * to be 44 million kilometers ( 0. 3 AU ).
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Very much the political man, Helion felt himself deeply affected by the increasingly pessimistic atmosphere of France and all Europe, whose foundations seemed to him more and more shaky.
Very likely it will also include a recognition that the work we are reading reflects or `` belongs to '' some way of thought labelled as a `` school '' or an `` -ism '', i.e. a complex or `` syndrome '' of ideas occurring together with sufficient prominence to warrant identification.
Very angry at Woodruff, the governor used his personal influence to have the printing contract withdrawn from The Gazette and awarded to the lowest bidder, which, by a strange coincidence, happened to be Pike's Advocate.
Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.
Very recently, observations have been made at 8-mm wave length with a reflector 22 meters in diameter with a resultant beam width of only about 2' ( Amenitskii, Noskova, and Salomonovich, 1960 ).
Very small particles, however, in a size range of 1 to 4 microns in diameter are capable of passing these impinging barriers and entering the alveolar bed of the lungs.
`` Very few wives '', says Dr. Calderone, `` who balance the checkbook, fix the car, choose where the family will live and deal with the tradesmen, are suddenly going to become submissive where sex is concerned.
Very old red wines often require several hours of aeration, and any red wine, brought from the cellar within half an hour of mealtime, should be uncorked and allowed some air.
Very slowly he maneuvered his rawboned bay gelding, edging closer, watching for a chance to throw, but ready to spin and run, rope whining about his head, horse edging tensely under him, but the gelding was obedient and responded and was not paralyzed by the close proximity of the lion.
Very early in his administration he informed the Kremlin through diplomatic channels, a high official source disclosed, that the new administration would react even tougher than the Eisenhower administration would during the formative period of the administration.
Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.
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