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When and wind
She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.
When Robinson first designed his anemometer, he asserted that the cups moved one-third of the speed of the wind, unaffected by the cup size or arm length.
When the particles are in great motion, they produce a Doppler shift for measuring wind speed in the laser light, which is used to calculate the speed of the particles, and therefore the air around the anemometer.
When the wind blows horizontally, it presses on and moves the ball ; because ping-pong balls are very lightweight, they move easily in light winds.
When taken in the context of Dowson's poem about " Cynara ", the phrase " gone with the wind " alludes to erotic loss.
When looking at a Van Goyen painting one can almost feel the wind in the trees laced with the scent of a bluest smoke lingering above a rustic cottage, or taste the salted air near the seashore he painted.
When hunting, the Common Kestrel characteristically hovers about 10 – 20 m ( c. 30 – 70 ft ) above the ground, searching for prey, either by flying into the wind or by soaring using ridge lift.
When Joseph Stalin got wind of this, he directed Gottwald to drop all pretense of democracy.
When motorcycles were invented, some riders took to wearing heavy leather jackets to protect from road rash and wind blast ; some also wear chaps or full leather pants to protect the lower body.
When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits ( identified as " black soots " in early subtitles and " soot sprites " in the later English dubbed version ) leave the house to drift away on the wind.
When sailing upwind the apparent wind is greater than the true wind and the direction of the apparent wind will be forward of the true wind.
When sailing close to the wind the force generated by the sail acts at 90 ° to the sail.
When sailing downwind, the sails no longer generate aerodynamic lift and airflow is stalled, with the wind push on the sails giving drag only.
When the boat is traveling approximately perpendicular to the wind, this is called reaching.
When the waves are steep, it may be necessary to sail closer to the wind to avoid waves directly on the beam.
When powdery, snow moves with the wind from the location where it originally landed, forming deposits called snowdrifts which may have a depth of several meters.
When combined with renewable energy systems such as photo-voltaic solar panels or wind systems they can be stand alone systems.
When stars are born, their birth is accompanied by a strong outward wind of gas and dust.
When close to a planet with a strong magnetosphere such as Earth or a gas giant, the magnetic sail could generate more thrust by interacting with the magnetosphere instead of the solar wind, and may therefore be more efficient.
When operating away from planetary magnetospheres, a magnetic sail would force the positively charged protons of the solar wind to curve as they passed through the magnetic field.
When the wind is turned on the liquid quickly evaporates leaving behind the clay in a pattern characteristic of the air flow.
* Revised Overture ( arranged by Geoffrey Toye, 1920 ; includes " I once was as meek ", " When the night wind howls ", " I know a youth ", " My eyes are fully open ", " I shipped, d ' ye see " and Hornpipe )

When and blows
When the Soldier has the hat equipped and taunts with the Equalizer ( a mining pick ), a Hallelujah chorus sounds while he pulls a grenade off his chest and blows himself up.
The American historian Gerhard Weinberg described the Henderson-Ribbentrop meeting in this way: " When Joachim von Ribbentrop refused to give a copy of the German demands to the British Ambassador at midnight of 30 – 31 August 1939, the two almost came to blows.
When, for example, an explosion blows a hole in a rock wall, the GeoMod technology creates an " empty space " object which is the approximate size and shape of the explosion.
When used in fighting, shields were most effective when used to cause glancing blows.
When Maggio complains that Judson's piano playing is interfering with his dancing, the two nearly come to blows.
When the nuclear bomb that Clark leaves for the kidnappers blows up, Podkayne is killed, shielding the young fairy with her body.
When Akeem donates their travel money ( to the homeless Randolph and Mortimer Duke of Trading Places ) after Semmi nearly blows their cover, Semmi transmits a plea to King Joffer for more financial help.
When Socrates sums up what they have agreed on so far, it becomes problematic that knowledge is sense perception, for Socrates raises the question that " When the same wind blows, one of us feels cold and the other not?
When the wind blows briskly, the waterfall will appear to be falling sideways.
When annoyed, he often fought to punish his opponents rather than knock them out, endlessly avoiding their blows and striking with swift counters.
In the present-day Valencian Community, the saying: Quan el mal ve d ' Almansa, a tots alcança (" Evil tidings spare no one when they come from Almansa ", or, more literally, " When the wrong comes from Almansa, it reaches everybody " ( Compare English: " It's an ill wind that blows no good ") recalls this defeat, since one of the side effects of this defeat was the suppression of the autonomy of the Kingdom of Valencia within the Spanish Habsburg monarchy.
When she sniffs towards the west she catches Tāwhaki's scent and calls out ' Are you come with the wind that blows on my skin?
When you are distant, you will exchange blows of the sword, and it will be rather easy to move closer to your opponent.
When he finally blows his nose, he throws his handkerchief into the grand piano.
When hidden by the foliage, its presence is often advertised by the mechanical drumming, a vibrating rattle, produced by the rapidly repeated blows of strong bill upon a trunk or branch.
When it is turned on, it rotates and blows the soot off the tubes and out through the stack.
When I lower it, a snowy blizzard blows.
When the alien invasion begins, Moishe advises his fellow Jews to greet the Race as liberators after one of their bombs inadvertently blows a hole in the ghetto wall, and they are treated as such even after the Race destroys Berlin with a nuclear device.
When the mistral blows from the west, the mass of air is not so cold and the wind only affects the plain of the Rhone delta and the Côte d ' Azur.
When Knox escapes in a helicopter armed with a missile, Bosley helps the Angels board the helicopter, and Alex reprograms the missile, which blows up the helicopter and kills Knox while the Angels land safely in the ocean.
For example, " When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table " ( lines 2-3 ), the " sawdust restaurants " and " cheap hotels ," the yellow fog, and the afternoon " Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers " ( line 77 ), are reminiscent of languor and decay, while Prufrock's various concerns about his hair and teeth, as well as the mermaids " Combing the white hair of the waves blown back / When the wind blows the water white and black ," show his concern over aging.

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