When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.

When building an adobe structure, the ground should be compressed because the weight of adobe bricks is significantly greater than a frame house, and may cause cracking in the wall.

When the amount of muscle is increased, then more calories can be ingested without gaining weight.

When using volume to meter each charge, it is important to regularly check the charge weight on a scale throughout the process.

When the player releases the key, the jack falls back down under its own weight, and the plectrum pivots backwards to allow it to pass the string.

* When the key is released, the jack falls back down under its own weight, and the plectrum passes back under the string.

When using a pack, llamas can carry about 25 % to 30 % of their body weight for 5-8 miles.

When they have leant upon them, according to their habit, they knock down by their weight the unsupported trees, and fall down themselves along with them.

When a tree stump or other obstruction such as a rock is encountered, the ploughshare is thrown upwards, clear of the obstacle, to avoid breaking the plough's harness or linkage ; ploughing can be continued when the weight is returned to the earth after the obstacle is passed.

When the total weight becomes zero, all references have been destroyed.

When carbon is used, its content in the steel is between 0. 2 % and 2. 1 % by weight, depending on the grade.

When heavy, wet snow with a snow-water equivalent ( SWE ) ratio of between 6: 1 and 12: 1 ( in extreme cases, as heavy as 4: 1 ) and a weight in excess of 10 pounds per square foot (~ 50 kg / m < sup > 2 </ sup >) piles onto trees or electricity lines – particularly if the trees have full leaves or are not adapted to snow – significant damage may occur on a scale usually associated with hurricanes.

When standing on the board it is flexed down at the contact points by your weight, but can easily be lifted by shifting your weight off either foot.

When the operator pulls down a cord, a pulley weight behind the switchboard pulls it down to prevent it from tangling.

When accelerating or driving uphill, the vehicle's weight shifts rearward, reducing front wheel traction, causing the transmission to automatically send torque to the rear wheels to compensate.

When braking or driving downhill, the vehicle's weight shifts towards the front, reducing rear wheel traction.

US Senate chamber ( photo circa 1873 ) When the Capitol's new dome was finally completed, its massive visual weight, in turn, overpowered the proportions of the columns of the East Portico, built in 1828.

When landing the aircraft is much lighter due to the loss of propellant weight and a vertical landing is much easier to perform.

When considered a vector, weight is often denoted by a bold letter W.

When emplaced, the howitzer's high volume of fire compensates in large measure for the lower explosive weight of the projectile compared to the Army's 155mm and 8-inch howitzers.

When Prinze was a small child, his mother enrolled him in ballet classes to deal with a weight problem.

When the weight of the payload and fuel are considered together, it is known as the " useful load fraction ".

When heating ( or cooling ) in a water bath the flask can be clamped by the neck to a stand or a hooped weight may be placed over the conical part of the flask to prevent it from floating in the bath.

When softened in water it has a sea-like odour and because of the abundant cell wall polysaccharides it will form a jelly when boiled, containing from 20 to 100 times its weight of water.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.